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An open letter to Bill Gates: Higher class sizes will drive teachers out
- 03-04-2011
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Blog by Anthony Cody/Education Week
Dear Mr. Gates, I am writing to you because you have been getting a great deal of attention for your ideas about education, and from my perspective here on the ground in an impoverished urban district, I think you might be making some mistakes. I read your recent commentary in the Washington Post (How Teacher Development Could Revolutionize Our Schools), and reports from your presentation to governors, where you advised them to raise class sizes in the rooms of the most effective teachers. In your comments to the governors, you said "there are too many areas where the system fails. The place where you really see the inequity is the inner city. " You presumably are hoping to redress this inequity when you make this proposal: (more...)
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