Entering a third-grade classroom in a high-poverty school, I saw lots of children for early elementary. “How many children do you have?” I asked the teacher. “Today I have 27,” she said. “But I have ...

In a buzzing classroom at Rogers Street Academy this spring, 24 kindergartners were remarkably on task all at once. Teacher Araceli Barroso was focused on two of them. At a small table together, the ...

When the Milwaukee School Board approved a class size policy in 1995, it was with the intention to continue lowering class sizes in future years. Thirty years later, the school district is operating ...