70 children in a class

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Jim Knight coming up with this gem

The one thing that makes a big difference in Education is class size, it is what people pay for. You want a reasonable number to bounce ideas off but no more than 20 IMO.

The big question in the debate on class sizes is not whether smaller classes produce better academic results - the answer to that is, ?of course they do?

According to Dylan William, deputy director of the the Institute of Education in London has come up with interesting answers.

Reducing class sizes across the entire state sector would involve building new classrooms and increasing the teacher workforce by as much as 50 per cent, which would be expensive and might be politically difficult to justify.

so conversely classes of 70 will be easy to justify?

...he must have shares in companies that run private schools!

and not only do they get better results, buit I also feel that smaller class sizes make for happier and more confident children, regardless of what educational results they come out with!

Japan is decreasing its class size. In the past Japanese schools had huge classes. However they also had a very high rate of child suicide.

Hmm, and who is going to mark that work x70? Certainly not the underpaid TAs, otherwise they'd be teachers!

Complete dipstick.

My school have increased the double GCSE class size we teach from 22 to 30 pupils and imagine that we are still going to produce the same excellent results . It's a shame there are going to be 2 yr cohort of guinea pigs to go through this before they see the rather obvious impact upon results. It seems they won't be told. They'll only believe the stats.

Heated, work won't get marked. The kids will attend expensive Jukos (crammers) instead.

Or prehaps they will all use SAM learning and ever put pen to paper or write anything original.

This article is interesting, but a bit contraversal.

www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3347861.html

It argues that there is a trade off between paying a good salary to get a good teacher teaching a larger class, or having poor quality staff teaching smaller classes.

I am sceptical that its possible to compare different education systems. Especially as its harder to learn to read in English than other langauges.