MCCPTA - On-Line Class Size Discussion Resources

MCPS Class Size Reduction Report (January 2002)

Education Week has an excellent report called "Quality Counts" at www.edweek.org/sreports/qc98(98) and www.edweek.org/qc(99) which compares state efforts to provide a quality education. The section on School Climate addresses the issue of class size for 1998, or www.edweek.org/sreports/qc99/states/indicators/in-t4.htm" for 1999.

Further resources on class size are also available at the Education Week site at www.edweek.com/context/topics/class.htm.

Class Size Reduction and Teacher Quality Initiative (www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/ClassSize/), from the US Dept of Education's website, offers clarification for those who have been hearing about government efforts to reduce elementary school class sizes. The goals are to achieve a nationwide average of eighteen students per class, to provide personal attention for each child, to improve training and evaluation of teachers, and to ensure that all students can read independently by the end of third grade.

California Department of Education has a class size reduction page containing information on California's initiative.

WestEd, a non-profit research, development and service agency serving four western states, provides online resources related to class size reduction policy in California at www.wested.org/policy, with many valuable links to online resources. Results from several years of findings from the California Class Size Research Consortium are available at www.classize.org (updated July 2000).