Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.

Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, said, "The configuration of teachers—the number per classroom, the number of students for which teachers will be responsible, the assignment of teacher by subject matter—will be decided with input from teachers themselves according to the needs of students in a particular school. In many cases, this will mean more team teaching that allows collaboration among teachers..."