Kathleen Grimm, New York City's deputy schools chancellor for finance and administration, said the money would help reduce class sizes, increase class time, promote professional development, restructure middle and high schools, expand early childhood programs and provide support for students with limited English proficiency.
School health programs are beset with nationwide budget cuts, increasing class sizes, and time limitations due to national standards for core reading and math skills.
Leaders of the so-called reform movement, including Mr. Gates, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Klein, say that in hard times, increasing class size is one of the best ways to save money, as long as there is a strong teacher.
This inquiry is situated in the context of two contemporary social phenomena: ambivalence toward class stratification in U.S. public discourse at a time of increasing class stratification, and a growth in the production and consumption of status-based reality television shows on U.S. broadcast and cable networks.
This process enables teachers to educate a large number of students without increasing class size, since at a given time some students are learning in a digital lab while under the supervision of a paraprofessional.
As Harvard's Robert Putnam (and author of Bowling Alone) recently pointed out at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2012, there is an increasing class gap for children in the time spent with parents as well as in enrichment expenditures, and he concluded that the "bottom line" shows "growing class gaps among American youth in all predictors of success in life". .
Our campuses are increasing class sizes.
Yes, increasing class size!
Increasing class sizes makes no one happy.
