Sentences with phrase «focused on class sizes»

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The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto contained a pledge to reduce infant class sizes, establishing a dedicated fund to ensure teachers had the time to focus on a child's individual needs.

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.

The petition says he has run the NYC school system «like a ruthless dictatorship,» shutting out parents and teachers, putting the focus on tests, and refusing to cut overcrowding and class size.

All of the candidates have said they support the key components of Superintendent Kriner Cash's agenda, such as community schools, lower class sizes and a focus on early literacy.

In fact, they have all expressed support for Cash and the key tenets of his plan, which include community schools, lower class sizes and a focus on literacy.

His plan, the New Education Bargain, calls for community schools, lower class sizes, more career programs and a focus on early literacy — all things that have become state and national priorities.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

By keeping the class size small we keep the focus on form and have the ability to provide individualized attention when needed.

He said his education initiatives focus on recruiting, training, and hiring teachers, which will help reduce class size and improve teacher quality.

She sees untenable class sizes and budget cuts having a negative impact on the kids and teachers alike, but she keeps her spirits up by focusing on the relationships.

Such thinking is why elementary - and secondary - school reform focuses almost exclusively on resources (per pupil spending), time (class size), knowledge (professional development), or experience (teacher retention) and relatively little on incentives to make educators perform better.

Too often, we focus on the negativity that surrounds the profession in the news, and conversation turns to working conditions, class size, union issues or other outside forces that teachers have little control over.

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

Previous waves of reform had focused on inputs, intentions, and regulation: boost the credentials and pay of teachers; increase course requirements for high - school graduation; mandate lower class sizes; etc..

Another study of the effects of class size focused on an initiative in the Burke County (North Carolina) Schools.

While reducing class sizes and increasing teacher quality have also been estimated to increase student achievement by roughly 0.1 standard deviation, the costs of such programs far exceed those of the literacy hour program, which focuses only on changing teachers» practices.

One option is to focus on structural features of schools and classrooms, such as teacher education and certification, class size, and curriculum, and enact policies to ensure that these proxies for quality are uniformly in place.

Class sizes will be small and we'll have a real focus on high - quality training for the teachers in the building.

For challenges like large class sizes, high - stakes testing, and intense focus on teacher and administrative accountability, increasing success by all students means we must engage them into the learning dialog.

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The group's executive director, Leonie Haimson, called the situation «unconscionable» and noted how the DOE had repeatedly pledged to «focus class size reduction planning efforts on the School Renewal Program.»

Previous waves of reform had focused on inputs, intentions, and regulation: Boost the credentials and pay of teachers; increase course requirements for high - school graduation; mandate lower class sizes; etc..

However, most courts that have historically entered into educational policy areas other than funding have discouraged real structural changes, focusing instead on the continuation of past policies, such as class size reduction or across - the - board salary increases for teachers, which carry with them increased funding.

There was — and will continue to be — much to argue about, including test scores, graduation rates, and class sizes (see Diane Ravitch and / or Sol Stern at «related posts» below), but there is no doubt that Klein and Bloomberg have introduced some much needed common sense, business management practices, accountability, and, yes, a laser - like focus on student achievement, to a system that had become unmanageable and unproductive.

Schools that focus on smaller class size, positive discipline practices, and parent and community engagement.

As the current school year heads into its final months, Onslow County school and county officials are focused on the year ahead and the challenges to meet state K - 3 class size requirements.

Our small class sizes allow teachers to focus on students that need help the most.

Harkin's bill allows some funds to be used on class - size reduction in early grades, and focuses on performance of principals.

This K - 5 Harvest Network school is praised on its website for having small class sizes as well as an «African American focus.»

Far too much energy in the past decade has focused on simply securing full school years and adjusting class sizes up or down as revenues surged and collapsed.

Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, said city school officials should reduce class sizes and hire additional reading and math specialists before focusing on summer instruction.

Intervention should focus on factors that can produce significant improvement, including effective professional development, active parent involvement, high - quality classroom assessment, and smaller class sizes.

Few researchers have focused on the causal impacts of collegiate class size, however.

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

Provides a differentiated learning experience through small class size (12 - 16 students) and expertly trained teachers who balance teacher - directed and student - initiated focus on inquiry and discovery.

«Education leaders, working hand - in - hand with teachers, can focus on key issues like testing, planning time and class size to help alleviate some of the pressures that many teachers are feeling today.»

Rally organizers will call on union leadership to demand a «real path to better public schools,» including reduced class sizes; a renewed focus on the arts, music, civics, and physical education; and funding for afterschool programs and wrap - around programs.

Tags: class size, President Obama budget Posted in Uncategorized Comments Off on Parent leaders hail the President's focus on the need for smaller classes

Reform efforts aimed at solving the problems of students failing classes, repeating grades, or dropping out altogether have focused on instruction, testing, and class size.

We will focus first on returning average high school class size to normal levels and restoring some bilingual positions.

Furthermore, the smaller class sizes allow teachers to focus on students that need the most help and ensure all students graduate on time.

Both Title I and IDEA also got bumps in funding, and the bill maintains funding for Title II, which focuses on teacher professional development and class - size reduction.

Improving teacher working conditions means more than focusing on resources, class sizes, and physical structures.

The Great Hearts Greater Good fund allows Maryvale Prep and Teleos Prep teachers to focus on closing the achievement gap by enabling us to maintain small class sizes, helping pay salaries to our qualified teachers who specialize in urban education and helping to provide school supplies, uniforms and special education and ESL (English as a Second Language) materials.

Tenure could guard against dismissal of more experienced, higher paid teachers during periods of tight budgets when school leaders may be more focused on reducing costs while meeting class size requirements than they are on student learning.

Natasha Ushomirsky, director of K - 12 policy development, said in a blog post on the group's website that the bill emphasizes school quality indicators like class sizes and teacher caseload, which she said «aren't focused on students at all.»

With the flexibility of a small class size, teacher's projects and lessons focus on providing individual 1 on 1 instruction, support and inspiration.

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 many different ways to use effect sizes but here we focus on progress — not on comparisons between classes, teaching methods etc..