I would like to push back against recent claims that smaller classes do not improve outcomes. A recent study in a top journal (implying the study was highly scrutinized and passed) shows that exogenous changes in class size have meaningful impacts on a variety of long run outcomes. Smaller class sizes are found to be better, and pass some notion of a cost benefit analysis.
Link to final published study: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/128/1/249/1839904 Link to earlier version of the paper that is not behind a paywall: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6857958.pdf While I fully agree with the notion that we should look hard at how to improve the outcomes of our students (both for parents and because better schools = higher property values), larger classes seem to hinder that effort.
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