Self-study
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Summary
The author concludes that public funds would be better spent on efforts to recruit and retain better teachers, rather than to shrink class sizes.
This is based on two premises: that reductions in class sizes lead to only small improvements, and that the cost-benefit analysis should be done by comparing it to other potential uses of the funds.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that recruiting and retaining teachers is a more productive use of funds than shrinking class sizes. Otherwise, the funds wouldn’t be better spent on efforts to recruit and retain teachers, no matter what cost-benefit analysis was used.
Analysis by FinnbarKiely
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