Homeschoolers – last time I looked – had very small class sizes. Is THAT why they do so well? Maybe not… look at this story in the Washington Post yesterday….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/13/AR2006021301754_pf.html

“Wouldn’t it be better to let classes get bigger? Then schools could reduce the number of teachers, keep good ones like Reiser and pay them more. The idea seems odd to many. But some scholars and administrators say raising class sizes and teacher pay might improve achievement.”
– From the The Washington Post, 2/16/06

Seems to me that this would fly in the face of the “classroom reduction” ideas behind some of the lottery revenues going to that end. Thoughts?