Re: classroom size question

2001-02-27 Thread Joel Blau
I think it is one that Virginia Postrel cited in the New York Times last week in her economics column. Apparently, there have been a couple of conservative article recently contending that class size does not matter. Joel Blau Michael Perelman wrote: Does anybody know anything about this

Re: Re: classroom size question

2001-02-27 Thread Rob Schaap
Joel Blau wrote: I think it is one that Virginia Postrel cited in the New York Times last week in her economics column. Apparently, there have been a couple of conservative article recently contending that class sizedoes not matter. Even if the stats were collected and calculated

Re: Re: classroom size question

2001-02-27 Thread Jim Devine
At 08:15 AM 2/27/01 -0500, Joel Blau wrote: I think it is one that [libertarian] Virginia Postrel cited in the New York Times last week in her economics column. Apparently, there have been a couple of conservative article recently contending that class size does not matter. shoot! If these

classroom size question

2001-02-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Does anybody know anything about this article? Hoxby, Caroline M. 2000. "The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation." Journal of Economics, 115: 4 (November): pp. 1239-85. She argues that class size does not have much of an effect on student