Professor Hattie surprises them with his research, which found teachers talk more in small classes. "All the things that you think would be better in small classes, it's the opposite. Rather, it's, 'They're going to listen to me better'," he says. "If you take a teacher of [a] class of 30 and put them in a class of 15, they teach the same way. Now what that says to me is that if you are going to reduce class sizes you need to reteach the teachers."
Ah! This makes so much sense. When DD was in a very small class, I assumed she would get a lot of one on one attention, but she looked at me like I had two heads when I asked about that.
