Recently I read an article about the failure of New York City schools to prepare students to read. The article highlighted some really dire statistics. As a teacher and union advocate, I cannot say ...

Entering a third-grade classroom in a high-poverty school, I saw lots of children for early elementary. “How many children do you have?” I asked the teacher. “Today I have 27,” she said. “But I have ...

There are few factors that can be concretely linked, with evidence, to better educational outcomes in primary and secondary students. Of those, the one we are most confident about is small class sizes ...

A last-ditch effort to push Mayor Eric Adams and his administration to slow the implementation of new class size caps before Zohran Mamdani takes office has failed. Over the recent objections of a ...

Changing open enrollment policies, adding seven more elementary teachers and increasing staff salaries to the rate of ...

Mayor Eric Adams caved on the state's controversial class size law Wednesday -- joined UFT prez Michael Mulgrew to announce New York City will hire 3,700 new teachers after saying for years that the ...

LANSING — The Michigan Senate is considering a plan to establish grants for school districts looking to reduce their class sizes. Supporters of the proposal say that students are in need of more ...

BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Thousands of teachers, parents and students fanned out across Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, taking part in a national day of action. They say they're fighting ...

Enrollment is up 40% at a Monticello private school. Leaders say a recent expansion allows them to keep class sizes small, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Araceli Barroso works with students in a 5-year-old bilingual kindergarten class at Rogers Street Academy in Milwaukee on Thursday ...

Contrary to “Role of Class Size in Success Unclear” (Feb. 5), reducing class sizes in the earliest grades is a proven reform that benefits children of all backgrounds, especially poor, minority, inner ...