Krueger 2003, on the other hand, documents a positive association between resources, class size and achievement.
Those two groups, like the ASA agreed that test scores are affected by many factors besides the teacher, not only the family, but the school's leadership, its resources, class size, curriculum, as well as the student's motivation, attendance and health.
"The quality and availability of teacher training, scarcity of textbooks and resources, and class size remain serious challenges affecting education quality," according to the authors, who also noted that the sector remains underfinanced.
But, on the other hand, universities have limited resources, and class sizes continue to grow as more and more people go (or return) to universities, community colleges and continuing education programs.
The small group sessions described in this study have traditionally been facilitated by medical teachers from different disciplines but were limited by lack of faculty resources, increased class sizes and difficulties in recruiting medical teachers.
These small group sessions have traditionally been facilitated by medical teachers from different disciplines, but faced with limited faculty resources, increased class sizes and difficulties in recruiting medical teachers we sought a solution to prevent the cancellation of this section of the communication skills curriculum.
A spokesman for the Department of Education, Jerry Russo, said the city would have the resources to limit class size once the state provided the money the city was expected to receive from a financing equity suit recently decided in the city's favor.
Class-size reduction (CSR) mandates presuppose that resources provided to reduce class size will have a larger impact on student outcomes than resources that districts can spend as they see fit.
Hanushek concludes that there does not appear to be a strong, systematic relationship between school resources, and in particular class size, and student achievement.
The first noteworthy conclusion is that just increasing educational resources (e.g., reducing class size through recruiting more teachers) does not appear to be an appropriate policy because it does not have a positive and significant effect on school efficiency.
Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter -- when all the evidence points to the contrary.
