Cash-strapped school districts and states across the country are backing away from reductions in class size, a reform touted in recent years as a magic bullet for improving ailing public schools. In ...

In The Class Size Debate (Economic Policy Institute, 2002, Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein, eds.), he points out the issue is not that class-size reduction is never effective. “Surely class-size ...

Every generation of activist has its own accompanying insult. Leftists in the past might have been slandered as “petty bourgeois” or “revisionists”; these days, calling someone a “neoliberal” is ...

Imagine you’re in your English class and don’t fully grasp your teacher’s lecture. All you have to do is ask your teacher to pause for a bit, but now imagine there’s 36 other students in your class. A ...