schools

  • Nov 18, 2009

    FAQ: How class-size reduction works in California

    Get the answers to your questions about California's class-size reduction program as well as who to contact How did the program start? The program was initiated in 1996, to reduce average class sizes in K-3 grades to 20 students to every teacher. At the time, K-3 class sizes in California averaged 28.6 students, among the highest teacher-student ratios in the nation.

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  • Sep 30, 1994

    School Colors

    Integration. It was called the greatest social experiment of our generation. But 40 years after Brown v. Board of Education, many schools are still sharply segregated along color lines. America's changing demographics have tested the limits of our racial and ethnic tolerance, leaving many of us to ask whether the nation's diversity will enrich us or tear us apart.

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  • Aug 31, 1991

    Back to School: CIR/KCRA Expose of Corporal Punishment

    Each year, more than 750,000 American school children are paddled, caned or whipped with belts - all in the name of discipline. Although corporal punishment is banned in the public schools of most developed countries, it is still legal in 28 states of the US.

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