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Show Connecticut School Sludy Gives Surprising Results The amount of money spent andor the size of the class taught have little or no relation-sh'p relation-sh'p to the achievement of pupils pu-pils in the Connecticut public schools. This was "the definitely not expected" conclusion reached bv the Connecticut Citizens for the i Public Schools following an intensive in-tensive testing program lnvolv-lng lnvolv-lng over 7,000 tenth grade pupils In the Connecticut schools. Groups participating In this stu-dy stu-dy Included the Connecticut P-T, P-T, school superintendents, scc- ondary school princ'pals, elo. meniary sciioui jum-ii-min, lucal school boards, the Connec'icut Education Association, the Connecticut Con-necticut Citizens for the Public Schools, the Srate Department of Education ind the University of Connecticut.' - The Important findings of this study were reported recently by Utah Foundation, the . private, nonprofit, governmental research organization. Another unexpected result of the Connecticut study was that children under the more experienced exper-ienced teachers obtained lower achievement scores than did children chil-dren under new less-experienced teachers. Two other finds of the study were more in line with what had been previously expected. The ' study showed that there was a high degree of correlation be-r be-r tween academic achievement and the IQ of the pupil and between academic achievement and the home background of the student In view of these results, the committee making the study urged the review of factors other than money which are likely to affect academ'c success. Principal Princi-pal among these are the attitude atti-tude of school personnel, students, stu-dents, and the community s a whole toward one another and toward education. The committee believes that "there are other factors than Just more dollars needed" and that careful studies stud-ies by experienced research organizations or-ganizations can throw much u e ful light on these factors. In attempting to -x-lnIn vhy the pupils of inexper'n'-.c4 teachers did better than the ru-plis ru-plis of experienced teachers, 'he committee sugTcs'ed a numher of 'nlficant considerations Including In-cluding the shorter formal edu-rauon edu-rauon of many of the older In-! ; structors, the transference of j manv of the best of the older: , teachers to administrative posts,! and the loss of Incentive , for ; some teachers as they approach I retirement - 1 . . 1 ' |