Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120718:19:39:00
Smaller class size doesn't necessarily matter in the ways that we think. i was hoping you would weigh in on that as an administrator and a school founder. >> yeah, so i think that usually, the answers to these questions are more nuanced. and so for example, i think it depends on the subject. of course, if you could dramatically reduce class size across the country from 30 to 12, it would matter. but that's not practical. if you reduce it slightly from let's say 26 to 24, not much is going to happen. what we do is, we make the classes as small as possible for reading. in reading, it matters a l...