Sentences with phrase «data on class sizes»

Not exact matches

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group that has spearheaded the opposition to data sharing, said the lawsuit is narrowly focused on preventing the state from providing data to inBloom, Inc., the contractor for the statewide database.

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group who has spearheaded the opposition to the state's sharing of students data, urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to call on King to «halt... this unethical and dangerous plan.»

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.

Consider, for example, the recent skepticism directed toward Tennessee's Project STAR study, a randomized field trial on class size that failed to collect baseline test - score data.

Data used to measure school and class size, however, place the state among the best on those indicators.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

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.

For example, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton used data on black students in South Africa during apartheid to measure the effects of class size.

This approach forced us to restrict the sample to schools in which both a 7th - grade and an 8th - grade class were actually tested and in which data on the actual class sizes and average class sizes were available for each grade.

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.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

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.

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

To search for a specific school's class size data broken down by grade and program click on the link above and select the «Detailed School - level Data» repdata broken down by grade and program click on the link above and select the «Detailed School - level Data» repData» report.

This study presents new evidence on the test - score consequences of a teacher's race by examining data from Tennessee's well - known experiment in reducing class size, Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Ratio).

In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects of state educational policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor effect on student performance.

School report cards must also include data on average class sizes, by grade.

We do not have any data on concrete measures of quality, such as class sizes or reliance on non-tenure-track faculty.

Our paper uses detailed administrative data from Chicago Public Schools and exogenous variation on course scheduling to investigate an underlying mechanism by which class size affects student

The president of the National Council on Teacher Quality has also challenged the data in the LPI report, noting that the demand data presume student - to - teacher class size ratios to decrease from the current average of 16.1:1 to 15.3:1.

«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.

But Joyce, who helped negotiate this spring's class - size funding deal approved in House Bill 13, said lawmakers were «playing it smart» as they await data this winter on the needs of school districts.

It sometimes controls for the average classroom or school - wide scores on previous years» tests or for census data, class size, or a principal's years of experience.

Oh boy... I would change teacher salaries; bring teacher assistants to every classroom to handle all the data, test making and administrative tasks; cut class sizes in half; and offer hands - on courses at every school.

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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.

Here is what I think is the most recent public info on class size in MMSD (from this post):... The first was an October 3, 2011 discussion of class size, cut short in order to waste more time on Madison Prep, that featured a confusing and incomplete presentation of data.

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Explain the effects of the factors listed above (sample size, choice of information criterion, missing data, sample composition, class balance, number of indicators, and conditional independence violations) on the accuracy of a latent class analysis in the context of designing future studies.