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Gates proposes ending class-size reduction experiments, lifting caps on class size and offering good teachers financial incentives to teach more students.

Bill Gates talks about teacher pay, class size 2011

Snider claimed that class-size reduction programs in California and Florida now “look foolish” and are a “luxury …. we can no longer afford.”

7 Class size myths -- and the truth Valerie Strauss 2010

To give local schools flexibility in trimming their budgets, the Florida legislature last month cut the number of courses schools offer that must meet the state's strict class-size mandates.

The Local Government Pension Squeeze Steve Malanga 2011

Many states pursued class-size reduction initiatives in the 1990s.

Bill Gates talks about teacher pay, class size 2011

Over the years, though, the research community has more or less confirmed that class-size reduction doesn't yield significant performance gains.

Bill Gates talks about teacher pay, class size 2011

Here's another misleading statement from Chingos: Stanford's Eric Hanushek compiled 276 estimates of class-size effects from 59 studies, and found that only 11 percent of these estimates indicated positive effects of smaller classes.

Leonie Haimson: More Clap Trap on Class Size From the Gates-funded CAP Leonie Haimson 2011

"Using the estimated earnings impact of these non-cognitive skills and the direct cost of a class-size reduction, the implied internal rate of return from an 8th-grade class-size reduction is 4.6 percent overall, but 7.9 percent in urban schools."

Leonie Haimson: More Clap Trap on Class Size From the Gates-funded CAP Leonie Haimson 2011

Here's another misleading statement from Chingos: Stanford's Eric Hanushek compiled 276 estimates of class-size effects from 59 studies, and found that only 11 percent of these estimates indicated positive effects of smaller classes.

Leonie Haimson: More Clap Trap on Class Size From the Gates-funded CAP Leonie Haimson 2011

"Using the estimated earnings impact of these non-cognitive skills and the direct cost of a class-size reduction, the implied internal rate of return from an 8th-grade class-size reduction is 4.6 percent overall, but 7.9 percent in urban schools."

Leonie Haimson: More Clap Trap on Class Size From the Gates-funded CAP Leonie Haimson 2011

Lately, Gates has been advocating paying teachers based on classroom performance instead of seniority and ending costly investments in class-size reduction, two of the more provocative topics in public education.

Bill Gates talks about teacher pay, class size 2011