Sentences with phrase «based on class size»

Class times and dates are subject to change based on class size and availability.

Elementary class sectioning will be based on class size targets and guidelines listed below.

There are two ways to do that based on the class size and dynamics: one giant circle for all students, or fishbowl style (where the participants in an inner circle have a discussion and the participants in an outer circle coach the inner circle).

The universities will pay Coursera anywhere from $ 8 to $ 25 per student, based on the class size.

After entries have been received, the Show Secretary will make the judging assignments based on class sizes.

Not exact matches

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

For market segmentation, you should look for people demographics (age, gender, race, household size), socioeconomic class (income, education, occupation), psychographics (values, personality, lifestyle), and based on their behavior (buying responses, usage, loyalties).

But the construct is vulnerable due to its own contradictions: the disproportionate size of financial capital faced with the activities of production and services; pressure on labour income and the resultant crisis of under - consumption; the class divide, the bases of which cross borders.

Class size is limited to 20 people; based on the quantity of people we will either have teams of 4 or 5.

But classes are differently sized, based on scholarship availability, current regulations, and other factors.

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.

Circles were sorted into those less than 30 m2 (n = 195) those between 30 and 60 m2 (n = 318) and those greater than 60 m2 (n = 32) and the mean lifespan (based on turnover rate) computed for each size class.

Published earlier this month in the electronic journal Education Policy Analysis Archives, the study is based on California's recent experiences at reducing class sizes to 20 or fewer students in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

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

Policy makers, politicians and media too often discuss data about class sizes and their impact on student learning without an evidence base, relying largely on second - hand research or anecdotes.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

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.

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These predictive effects can be based on residuals, where first we form predictions based on observed variables (X) such as class size, years of teacher experience, lagged test scores, and parent characteristics.

Parents most often based their decisions on a school's curricula, teaching methods, class size, and academic standards.

☐ Is overseen by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐ Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level

[vii] The SIG grants in California averaged approximately $ 1,500 per pupil, so the program was costly, but the benefits were greater than other popular approaches, such as class size reduction, even on a per - dollar basis.

«We found higher levels of classroom engagement after lessons in nature than after carefully matched classroom - based counterparts; these differences could not be explained by differences in teacher, instructional approach, class (students, classroom, and class size), time of year, or time of day, nor the order of the indoor and outdoor lessons on a given topic.

Also in 1998, Stanford's Caroline Hoxby found that «reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement.»

HB 665, authored by Rep. George Moraitis, R - Fort Lauderdale, would calculate a school's penalty based on the average class size at each site rather than the total number of classrooms that surpass the cap.

Instead, all the school design teams so far have chosen team - based models that leave effective class sizes on par or smaller.

The facilities have smaller class sizes that focus on project - based learning in their academic curriculum.

Based on scores in nationally standardized tests (fourth grade reading and math and eighth grade reading and math), greater union membership of educators tends to have a positive impact on student test scores while larger class sizes tend to have a negative effect.

K - 5 - Our school program is geared toward state standards and run as a regular school with smaller class sizes and more hands on, activity - based learning.

Based on district enrollment projections for the 2017 - 18 school year, North Carolina's schools will require at least 28,345 teachers in grades K - 3 to meet the tightened class - size requirements slated to go into effect in the 2018 - 19 school year.

The approach is estimated to cost approximately # 367 per pupil, based on five hours captioning per week over one school year and class sizes of 25 pupils.

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

Based on the historic ratio of one enhancement teacher for every six teachers needed to meet the district average class size limit, schools will need an additional 4,720 teachers to meet 2018 - 19 class - size requirements while preserving enhancement classes for students in grades K - 3.

Raise average class size to 30 students per classroom by abandoning the failed policy of «mainstreaming» virtually all students, and by separating students into classes based on their academic performance.

We cut teachers, raising class sizes, and then insist on differentiating instruction for each child, plotting him on a «readiness continuum» and custom - designing lessons based on that readiness.

This became an issue when last year's budget limited K - 3 class sizes to 16 - 18 students based on the grade level.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over-placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

A strike in which teachers emphasize issues like class size, said Pelto, «actually provides a perfect opportunity to educate the Democratic base about what's going on... the good guys are the ones that are out on the picket line working to defend the profession.»

Instead, future class sizes will be based on whether home prices remain stable.

Meanwhile, Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) is exempt from the class - size mandate until 2020 due to its participation in Project ADVANCE, new skills - based pay model designed to add supplemental pay to teachers» income based on professional development.

To facilitate the achievement of our program goals, we have limited class size to 20 students, and provide our teachers opportunities for weekly planning and collaboration, in addition to classes in the following areas during designated professional development sessions: International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC); Student assessments and interventions based on Dr. Stanley Greenspan's developmental model of education; Arts integration; and Common Core English Language Arts and Mathematics standards - based instruction.

In addition to offering students a small class size for all subjects, we further individualize literacy and mathematics instruction by implementing even smaller group instruction based on ongoing assessments administered throughout the school year.

Instead of focusing on what the data says an «average» child should achieve, and driving an entire class towards that goal, the smaller class sizes and more relaxed approach to progress in special schools means teachers can respond to the needs of each child, based on individual strengths and weaknesses.

There are serious concerns about reliability when VAMs are computed with small sample sizes or are based on classes not taught by the rated teacher (as appeared to occur in New Mexico, Florida, and possibly New York).

They can strategically alter class sizes, and hire and fire teachers based on performance or school priorities.

These choices are primarily based on educational reasons: high academic standards, small class size, innovative approaches, and educational philosophies in line with their own.

A hallmark of the Broad - style leadership is closing existing schools rather than attempting to improve them, increasing class size, opening charter schools, imposing high - stakes test - based accountability systems on teachers and students, and implementing of pay for performance schemes.

Dawn: Do you truly believe that you can build a professional teacher corps based on the principle that once you get a few years under your belt and start earning a middle - class salary that you will be in immediate danger of being laid off because that will allow the hiring of more new and inexperienced teachers to lower class size?

Do you truly believe that you can build a professional teacher corps based on the principle that once you get a few years under your belt and start earning a middle - class salary that you will be in immediate danger of being laid off because that will allow the hiring of more new and inexperienced teachers to lower class size?