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Mark Takano: “As you know, a lot of these strategies require a counterintuitive approach, which is actually we have got to reduce…”

On the recordApril 28, 2014
As you know, a lot of these strategies require a counterintuitive approach, which is actually we have got to reduce class sizes at the secondary level in order to enable the seminar-style teaching that some of the pedagogy requires.
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Mark Takano
Democratic · California

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Takano discusses the need for smaller class sizes to improve teaching methods.

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