Following an increase in the number of teachers relative to the number of pupils in the 2000s,
the pupil teacher ratio has been relatively stable as teacher numbers have tracked pupil numbers since 2010.
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Pupil teacher ratio of 18:1 in Kindergarten, 21:1 in first and second grades, 25:1 in third, fourth and fifth grades.
When given the money, schools chose to spend it on decreasing
the pupil teacher ratio from 16.0 to 13.6.
Any wonder he conveniently ignored data on universal access to basic education, gender parity, time on task, social intervention programmes, scholarships, gross enrollment, text book to pupil ratio,
pupil teacher ratio, TVET reforms, WASSCE awards, university rankings just to mention a few.
Pupil teacher ratios are rising which means bigger class sizes and less attention for individuals.
Not exact matches
Changing the
teacher -
pupil ratio might prove to be a significant social change.
Secondly, the school feeding program, though successful in attaining high enrolment, it has negatively impacted
teacher -
pupil ratio, with implications for quality.
Although apparently similar, class size is a distinct measure from «
pupil -
teacher ratio».
The Government later rejected the claim, presenting figures in April 2001 showing a year on year decline in the
pupil -
teacher ratio between January 2000 and 2001 from 17.2:1 to 17.1:1.
«The Chautauqua Lake Central School District has consistently ranked among the top school districts in the region and has one of the lowest
pupil -
teacher ratios.
«New York's cost is exceptionally high because... the state combines the nation's highest average
teacher's salary and relatively high staffing levels (reflected in a well - below - average average
pupil -
teacher ratio),» the report notes.
While it is too soon to tell whether these cuts have direct impact on the provision of services in these regions, the research found evidence that measures related to A&E admissions and waiting times for treatment are deteriorating at a faster rate in London than in the North of England, while
pupil - to -
teacher ratios in the North are not improving as well as in London.
A new, in - depth report takes a look at how states spend education money and finds that the most cost - effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing
pupil -
teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing
teachers with discretionary classroom resources — not by raising
teacher pay.
Both schools spend about the same per
pupil, have similar
teacher - student
ratios, similar numbers of guidance counselors, and well - qualified
teachers (as measured by education and experience).
In the past decade, monitoring the provision of quality education primarily meant tracking inputs into schools such as per
pupil educational expenditures, number fo trained
teachers, class sizes and
teacher -
pupil ratio, instructional time andaccess to ICT.
It is the
ratio of
pupils to qualified
teachers in upper secondary education where the UK fares worst.
And its
pupil -
teacher ratio was 12 - to - 1, compared with 29 - to - 1 across California.
Coleman found that variation in school resources (as measured by per -
pupil spending and student - to -
teacher ratios) was unrelated to variation in student achievement on standardized tests.
The only potentially important resource measure we can observe is
pupil -
teacher ratios, and we find no consistent evidence that ERI altered the number of students per
teacher in the schools it affected most.
Since we find no support for the notion that schools reduced
pupil -
teacher ratios in order to counteract the potential negative impact of
teacher retirements, we suspect that the
teachers who took up the ERI were less effective than the ones who replaced them or than the ones remaining in the school.
I also control for the characteristics of the school, including total enrollment,
pupil - to -
teacher ratio, racial composition, percentage of students eligible for free lunch, and percentage of returning students.
The international math and science scores so important for growth rates are not related to variations in spending on education or other standard measures of school resources, such as
pupil -
teacher ratios.
One of the problems in too many classrooms is that the
teacher -
pupil ratio is still so high that it is difficult to provide an environment where children can be allowed to «do what they want.»
The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's
pupil -
teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.
Nationwide,
pupil -
teacher ratios for the country fell from 17.8 in 1995 to 15.8 in 2008.
Prior to the report, school inputs — spending per
pupil,
teacher pupil ratios, and the like — were customarily viewed as roughly synonymous with results.
«The U.S. Department of Education should have a goal of reducing
teacher -
pupil ratio in all classes to no more than 1:15,» noted Bernie Poole.
(While
pupil -
teacher ratios are not the same as class size, they indicate the
teachers available to the school, regardless of how the school wishes to deploy them.
In addition, children were not learning at benchmark levels,
teacher -
pupil ratios averaged as high as 1:70, and many
teachers lacked the training that prepared them to teach.
«Today, the average nationwide
teacher -
pupil ratio is 1:17, which hides the fact that a lot of schools struggle to maintain a
teacher -
pupil ratio of 1:25 or worse.
In Hyderabad, private schools, including the unrecognized ones, had significant advantages over the government schools: the average
pupil -
teacher ratio was 42:1 in government schools compared with only 22:1 in the unrecognized and 27:1 in the recognized private schools.
And
pupil -
teacher ratios have fallen by almost 50 percent due to investments in class - size reduction and an increase in the number of
teachers who are not assigned to full classrooms (see Figure 2).
Indeed these findings on mechanisms also fail a simple sniff test: Between 1970 and 2008,
pupil -
teacher ratios for the nation fell by over thirty percent.
Some state requirements, including those that maintain specific
teacher -
pupil ratios, will also be waived.
About half are
teachers, which explains why the
pupil -
teacher ratio is 15:1, a decline from 23:1 since 1970.
It turns out, however, that their
pupil -
teacher ratio is actually a bit higher (17:1) than in all public high schools (15:1).
Such cuts would only move schools back to where they were before the recession in terms of class sizes and
pupil -
teacher ratios.
The settlement, which was approved last month, requires the Puerto Rico department of education to compare both
teachers» salaries and
teacher -
pupil ratios in ascertaining whether it is allocating resources equally among those schools.
Perspective is needed: The 5 percent cut could be accomplished by allowing
pupil -
teacher ratios to rise by just one student per
teacher — a change that's virtually unnoticeable by most
teachers.
Eleven state officials conducted a one - day site evaluation of the Cleveland - area district, examining issues such as
pupil -
teacher ratios and whether minimum time requirements were being met for instruction.
These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the
pupil -
teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.
«It is the last thing they want to do but they have no other choice because they have to reduce staffing numbers and that inevitably affects the
teacher - to -
pupil ratio.
The new requirements mean that districts must reduce
pupil -
teacher ratios in every classroom to 18 - to - 1 in prekindergarten...
According to the National Education Union (NEU), the cuts to front - line teaching posts are happening at a time when
pupil - to - classroom
teacher ratios are rising, which means bigger classes and less individual attention for children.
Trend information on
pupil and staff and
teacher and staff
ratios are also presented for the school years 2001 to 2011.
The
ratios were the worst in the North, with just 1.2 per cent of
teachers being BME in the North East, compared to 7.8 per cent of
pupils, and in the North West just 3.3 per cent of
teachers are BME, compared to 17.8 per cent of
pupils.
The report includes data on
pupil and staff and
teacher and staff
ratios for individual positions and for aggregate categories of professional personnel.
It would require hiring an additional 145,000
teachers, on top of standard hiring needs, to reduce average
pupil -
teacher ratios from the current 16 - to - 1 to pre-recession
ratios of 15.3 to 1.
Teacher demand is on the rise, as a function of changes in student enrollment, shifts in pupil - teacher ratios, and most significantly, high levels of teacher att
Teacher demand is on the rise, as a function of changes in student enrollment, shifts in
pupil -
teacher ratios, and most significantly, high levels of teacher att
teacher ratios, and most significantly, high levels of
teacher att
teacher attrition.
Between 1960 and 2000, the
pupil -
teacher ratio fell by more than a third.