Sentences with phrase «average class sizes of»

This, Hattie argues, would come as a surprise to Japan and Korea, two of the highest - performing education systems in the world, with average class sizes of 33.

Prior to recent - year changes, the state had provided districts with one teacher for every 18 students in grades K - 3, but only required districts to maintain average class sizes of 21 students.

The school has a staff to student ratio of 1:4 and average class sizes of 8 students.

Winthrop has a 15 to 1 student / faculty ratio and an average class size of 24.

Founded in 1839 and located about 65 miles from Richmond, Virginia, Longwood provides its students with a hands - on educational experience supported by an average class size of 21.

With a student - faculty ratio of 15:1 and an average class size of 17, Oglethorpe provides an environment in which the university's commitment to teaching excellence is evident.

With a 12:1 student - to - faculty ratio and average class size of 17, students experience an intimate, collaborative educational environment; 64 % of classes consist of fewer than 20 students, and just 2 % percent are more than 50.

The initial training cost estimate is based on teacher training with an average class size of ten.

Not exact matches

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

(His 2017 class ranked No. 115, but part of that was because of size; the per - recruit average was almost identical to UMass» 2016 class and only a little bit behind that of Temple, another team that has seen fortunes shift drastically over the last decade.)

Our average class size is 12, with a student / faculty ratio of 7:1 — which means a personalized experience.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

· An extra # 750m to ensure that class sizes for children from four to six were halved from the current average of 30 to 15.

The average size of classes taught by one teacher in state - funded secondary schools was 20.4 in January 2011, down from 20.5 in January 2010.

The average size of classes taught by one teacher in state - funded primary schools increased slightly, while the average size of classes taught by one teacher in state - funded secondary schools decreased slightly.

«As a result of this work, average class size across the city has decreased from 26.4 students per class in the 2015 - 16 school year to 26.1 this year,» he said.

A preliminary report released by the Department of Education on Dec. 14 shows that average class sizes increased this school year.

Under the Senate proposal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would divide the fleet into classes based on size or weight and set fuel - economy standards for each class to achieve an overall average of 35 mpg by 2020.

In their survey of planets within 0.5 to 10 AUs of their host star, the astronomers found that 17 +6 / -9 percent of observed stars had Jupiter - class planets (of 0.3 to 10 Jupiter masses), 52 +22 / -29 percent had Neptune - class planets (of 10 to 30 Earth - masses), and that 62 +35 / -37 percent had super-Earths of 5 to 10 Earth - masses, which is consistent with the conclusion that an average star in the Milky Way should have one or more planets within an orbital distance of 0.5 to 10 AUs, and that there may be some 10 billion Earth - sized planets in the galaxy (ESO press release; Anil Ananthaswamy, New Scientist, January 11, 2012; Jason Palmer, BBC News, January 11, 2012; and Cassan et al, 2012).

But Connelly changed things, reducing English and math class sizes to an average of sixteen students, hiring more teachers for core subjects («I buy teachers — I don't buy test coordinators,» she states), and switching to mastery grading.

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce class size in the early grades, proposed supplemental budget for the second year of the biennium includes $ 3.7 million to reduce average 3rd - grade class size from 26 to 20.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

They also do not differ significantly in their initial per - pupil spending, average class size, percentage of students receiving subsidized school lunches, percentage of students with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and the mobility of their student populations.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Moreover, the figures show that the average size of a primary school in the UK has increased by 30 pupils, which, in most schools equates to an extra class.

Data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey put the average elementary - class size in the state at 17.9 pupils, one of the lowest averages in the nation.

On the plus side, the average class size for elementary school classes in Louisiana is 18.9 pupils, lower than the national average of 21.2.

The new initiative will help hire an additional 100,000 well - prepared teachers and reduce class size in grades 1 - 3 to a nationwide average of 18.

A study from the Center for American Progress also notes, «The average cost - effectiveness ratio of switching curriculum was almost 40 times that of class - size reduction.»

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.

In addition, school systems may direct students into schools with different average class sizes on the basis of their performance.

Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that data were collected on both actual and average class sizes and on students» performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each school.

Class size at Icahn is capped at 18 students, in contrast to the district average of 25 — 27 students per cClass size at Icahn is capped at 18 students, in contrast to the district average of 25 — 27 students per classclass.

In 2010 Australia's average public primary class size (not STR) was 23.2 — above the OECD average of 21.3 and EU average of 20.

Even when they are told that «reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $ 10,000,» 44 percent of Americans select class - size reduction, whereas 28 percent select increasing teacher salaries.

According to the state department of education, from 2002 to 2008, average class sizes in the early grades were reduced from roughly 23 to 16 students in pre-K to grade 3 and from 24 to 18 students in grades 4 to 8.

According to data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey, the average elementary - class size in the state is 19.4 pupils, lower than the national average of 21.2 pupils.

That move created four classes of 32 students each, which is the average size for a fourth - grade class in New York City's District 2, which includes PS 41.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

Starting with the 2008 - 09 school year, individual districts must meet new size caps in each classroom, robbing school officials of the wiggle room they enjoyed during the phase - in period, when school systems were allowed to use districtwide and then schoolwide averages in calculating class sizes.

One group of survey respondents, randomly chosen, was told, «Reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by 13 % or buying $ 10,000 in new books and technologies for each class every year.»

International studies showed total national spending on schools, average class sizes, formal teacher qualifications and teachers» years of experience were poor predictors of how well students performed on tests in key areas of the school curriculum.

Each floor has a colour theme — orange, yellow or green — and the classrooms have ample space for an average size class but then of course we can open up the glass doors and use the common area outside each classroom as well.

For non-double session programs we calculate the cost by dividing the cost for an additional hour of the teaching team, based on the average hourly rate for teachers and assistant teachers, by the maximum class size to produce a cost estimate for the cost per child per additional hour.

For instance, there seems to be little difference between the average class sizes, teachers» levels of education, number of computers in the classroom, and Internet connections in schools attended by blacks versus those attended by whites.

In today's environment of growing class sizes — with an average of 25 students in elementary classrooms and 150 students a day in high school classes — it's difficult for teachers to provide one - to - one instruction.

Let denote outcome h for classroom j in school i. Let denote a vector of predictor variables such as class size, years of teacher experience, and an average of test scores from a previous year for members of the classroom.

For example, adding eight weeks (40 days) to the school year would require a class size of 24 (four students larger than the current average) and would increase test scores by 0.12 standard deviations.

This school year, Ocracoke School welcomed a single kindergarten class of average size for most schools.