1.   Private schools can offer smaller classes and more individual attention.

2.   Smaller classes would ease the burden for teachers.

3.   Among the features offered by one or more of the schools are smaller classes, longer days, emphasis on basic skills and self-directed learning.

4.   Another tool for preventing violence is smaller classes, Riley said.

5.   Assuming that the quality is there, smaller classes seem to result in better scores, particularly in reading.

6.   Advocates of smaller classes say they permit teachers to adapt strategies to individual needs.

7.   But first let them deliver quality from top to bottom in teachers, courses, and smaller classes.

8.   But he apparently did not bother to consider that there would have to be instructors at the front of the smaller classes he was championing.

9.   But smaller class size alone does not necessarily guarantee high achievement.

10.   But studies differ sharply on just how well smaller classes work.