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AIR DATE: February 3, 2011
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Experts and analysts of Governor Brian Sandoval's budget say that if it were implemented as is, the education system in Nevada would take a big hit. A result of cuts to education could be larger class sizes. But what is the exact impact of large and small class sizes? And can the state reduce class size in an effective manner? We talk with two researchers and a representative from CCSD about class sizes.
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Lauren Kohut-Rost, Deputy Superintendent of Instruction, CCSD
Jeremy Finn, SUNY Buffalo
Matt Chingos, Fellow, Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, and postdoctoral Fellow, Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University
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Regarding class size, you could have three students in a class and accomplish nothing because many students today have a plethora of physical and psychological "problems" and each student require a "PEP" personalized education plan. If the teacher's job description was to "teach" it would be easy to evaluate the teacher's effectiveness. "Teacher's" have to diagnose physical and psychological problems, watch for sick or abused students, try and engage parents in their student's education and monitor and adjust for social development, learning problems, behavior and all the other issues that teacher's are more than just a teacher. Let "teachers" "teach", they should not be surrogate parents or babysitters. Even babysitters make $5/hr so if you take a teacher with a class size of 25 students they should be making at least $125/hr for 8 hours a day for the 180 day school colander; unfortunately teachers don't make anywhere near this amount and the administrators rob teachers when they give themselves a 14% pay raise and teachers a 2% raise. Like other bureaucracies, education is administration top heavy and the teachers have unrealistic goals to try and hit. What is a "teacher"?
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