TLTP 025 - Stay Classy

The Last Tuesday Project

Break time's over, kids. It's time to get back to class and get yourself some learning from The Last Tuesday Project!

This month we are looking at education, with Alex asking a question about class sizes? Hayley and Guest Tuesday Jane diligently research the topic in preparation for the test at the end of the lesson.

• Class size Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_size)
• Smaller Classes, Lower Salaries? The Effects of Class Size on Teacher Labor Markets Stanford University (http://hanushek.stanford.edu/publications/smaller-classes-lower-salaries-effects-class-size-teacher-labor-markets)
• China’s Most Crowded School Has 113 Children Per Classroom Sixth Tone (http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000089/chinas-most-understaffed-school-has-113-children-class)
• No benefit in smaller classes, study finds The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/jan/06/schools.uk1)
• The class sizes debate is tired and asks the wrong questions The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/13/class-size-debate-asks-wrong-question-simplistic)
• Class Sizes The National Union of Teachers (https://www.teachers.org.uk/help-and-advice/health-and-safety/c/class-sizes)
• The Panopticon Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon)
• Are Schools Panoptic? University of Glasgow (https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/9649050.pdf)
• Dimensions of dialogue: large classes in China Science Direct (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035598000615)
• Ideal Class Size Mumsnet (https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/education/2033088-ideal-class-size)
• The Effect of Small Class Sizes on Mortality Through Age 29 Years: Evidence From a Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Oxford Academic (https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/173/12/1468/205555)
• Class size - does it really matter? The Independent (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/class-size-does-it-really-matter-education-1573342.html)
• Project STAR: The Story of the Tennessee Class-size Study American Educator (https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/STARSummer99.pdf)
• Confucianism Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism)

Our next TWOsday episode, Episode 25a, will be released on Tuesday 14th August 2018.

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