Sentences with phrase «fewer students per teacher»

In the U.S., groups such as Class Size Matters are dedicated to the proposition that fewer students per teacher is a recipe for success.

These classes have fewer students per teacher, allowing for more individualized attention.

Not exact matches

The school estimates that it has saved $ 963 per student based on three fewer teachers per student and savings on the textbooks the school no longer needs, but it had the added costs of laptops and technical support.

This helped to achieve low student loads — 65 or fewer per teacher, including advisories of 12 students per teacher — but, by January of our first year, the trustees and the faculty knew this leadership arrangement would not work.

I examined variables such as salary, years of teaching experience, whether teachers planned to stay in teaching for the next few years, the number of hours per week (on top of required hours) that teachers spent on activities related to their students» academic progress, and the number of hours that they spent on their students» extracurricular activities.

It requires fewer teachers per student than a traditional school, so Carpe Diem has achieved those results with only about $ 5,300 of the $ 6,300 per pupil allocation, according to Ryan Hackman, the school's chief operating officer.

Indeed, the city's fiscal disadvantage in 1993 was clear to everyone: its schoolchildren received some 12 percent fewer dollars than their counterparts elsewhere in the state; 11.8 percent of the city's teachers were uncertified, compared with 7.3 percent statewide; the city's students had 1 computer for every 19 students, compared with 1 for every 13 students statewide; there was 1 guidance counselor for every 700 city students, compared with 1 per 350 students in the rest of the state; there were 16.5 library books per pupil in the state, but only 10.4 in the city.

If policymakers had maintained the same overall teacher - to - student ratio since the 1970s, we would need 1 million fewer teachers, training could be focused on a smaller and more able population, and average teacher pay would be close to $ 75,000 per year.

Teachers love it because they teach only four courses per trimester and a third fewer students.

Under the current conditions of CA's abysmal (if slightly improving) school funding, class sizes in the state may improve, but not to levels in other states nor to levels shown in research to improve learning: 18 students and fewer per teacher.

At the average annual per - pupil expenditure of approximately $ 11,800, 30 fewer students could mean an annual loss of just more than $ 350,000, enough to pay six teachers» salaries.

Maybe if we covered fewer standards per year in greater depth and gave classroom teachers the education and tools (not just cute tricks) to effectively implement some level of real differentiated instruction, more students could gain by staying in heterogenous classrooms more of the time.

While the elementary schools surrounding Isthmus Montessori have a large population of English - language learners, this charter school would have 44 percent fewer bilingual resource teachers and specialists per student than those schools.

High - performing nations are not spending more per pupil than the United States, 11 and their academic achievement is higher than ours, 12 all with teachers working directly with students for fewer hours each week.

As NPE noted, these forms of instruction are «potentially profitable» because the schools receive the same funding per student that a standard district public or charter school would get, «while having far fewer costs for teachers, services, transportation or facilities.»

Aspire also offers a Teacher Residency Program for prospective college graduates which, although an attractive financial option, has only attracted a few dozen students per year since its inception.