DT> MS>    Look at typical college class sizes, particularly for the
DT> MS>less-adjusted  freshmen.  Class size is quite often 60 or over for
DT> MS>freshmen/sophomore  courses, even at small classes...and classes
DT> MS>smaller than 30 for  freshmen-level courses are very rare.
DT> MS>    In spite of that, colleges manage to graduate 2/3 of freshmen
DT> MS>within 5  years.
DT> 
DT> I think you would all agree that when it comes to class size, there 
DT> is 
DT> certainly a big difference between 60 college freshmen, 60 high 
DT> school 
DT> freshmen, 60 middle school 6th graders, and 60 kindergartners in one 
DT> classroom.  Class size is a factor the lower we go in the grade 
DT> levels.
    I'd disagree.
    Much of elementary-school material, other than math, is so _repetitive_ 
it doesn't matter if there are class sizes of 60...but try teaching freshmen 
college math to a class of 60 of whom 30 missed key parts of a _sequential_ 
subject in K-12.
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