Recent coverage of class sizes in Hillsborough County Public Schools raises important questions, but how the data has been ...

Maybe your first grader came home excited to tell you about all twenty-seven of her new classmates and you freaked. Maybe you’re considering shelling out for that fancy Montessori school that promises ...

Some Hillsborough schools’ class sizes have outgrown legal limits, and officials don’t see a clear path to shrinking them back down. Recent years have seen fewer teachers and heightened concerns ...

Mayor Eric Adams did an about-face on the state’s controversial class size law Wednesday — announcing New York City will hire thousands of new teachers after saying for years that the mandate was ...

Editor’s Note: This version was published in 2004. An updated version is available from 2011. In recent years, reducing class size has gained increased prominence as a school-improvement strategy.

In their commentary “It’s Not All About Class Size” (The Chronicle, January 30), Stephen J. Ceci and Spyros Konstantopoulos argue that reducing class size increases test-score variability in the ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has two priorities: raising taxes—preferably on the rich, but on anyone if he must—and freezing rents. Other issues, including any reform of the city’s overfunded ...

EdSource · John Fensterwald on what’s at stake for California schools in the 2026 election John Fensterwald on what’s at stake for California schools in the 2026 election April 16, 2026 - EdSource ...

Only very large reductions in class size—cuts on the order of seven to 10 students per class—are likely to lead to significant long-term effects on student achievement, a new research synthesis says.