When It Comes To Teacher's: More Isn't Better

For years, Democrats have pushed for smaller class sizes; arguing that a better teacher-to-student ratio would produce a better educated America.  And, a better educated America would mean better jobs and increased economic growth.

So, over the last 40 years, the number of teachers and teacher's assistants has literally doubled while school enrollments have only increased by less than 9 percent.  Now, if the Democrats were right, we should have seen increases in student performance in certain critical and job-essential areas of education.  Yet, in math and reading, the testing has shown a near zero improvement.  Science skills have declined. High school graduation rates have dropped.  Or, in other words, the teachers unions benefited from reduced class sizes while the students were short-changed.  Then, too, these facts easily dispute Obama's argument that we need to save teacher's jobs by implementing his jobs bill.  Just like a lot of what Obama wants do, that would be a pure waste of money.

Source: Andrew Coulson's 'America Has Too Many Teachers'
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