Sentences with phrase «get to class sizes»

To get to class sizes of 17 — what it takes to get the benefits cited above — the school needs 36 teachers, or 50 percent more.

Not exact matches

«One thing to keep in mind,» said Salesforce vice president of corporate strategy, Bruce Francis, «is that small businesses and medium - sized businesses are now getting access to world - class technology that they've never had access to before.

If you buy 12 paid rentals or 40 paid rental days in a year, you'll get executive status, which gives you a choice of full - size rental cars and automatic upgrade to the next car class up.

Given the sheer size of Chelsea's squad and the number of world - class players vying for spots that Traore would want to fill it seems highly unlikely that the starlet will get a look in at Stamford Bridge any time soon.

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

He can fend off three linemen the size of small duplexes and grab a 230 - pound running back by the bottom lip and plant him like a rhododendron, but he can't seem to get his butt out of bed for class.

He isn't the most dynamic athlete in this class, but he's a solid enough athlete to keep defenses honest (even if he didn't test like it), he's got pretty good size and he can handle the press reasonably well.

We have a world class striker in Alexis waiting to be re-purposed but are we fans patient enough to let him blossom in that role, he's got the tenacity of Suarez and as for his size, Aguero is not much bigger than him if he is at all.

The small class size allows for our kids to really get to know all of their fellow students and faculty.

In the mom - to - mom class, we talk about skin - to - skin, frequency of feeds, about the tummy size of the baby, how many wet or dirty diapers to expect, and signs that your baby is getting enough.

Baby came a few days before our 2 day weekend intensive childbirth class at the hospital scheduled for 38 weeks (daddy was happy to get out of that), also before our infant CPR class (which we then had to take after he was born) and before our FEU (Fetal Evalution Unit) ultrasound to find out a good estimate on his size using measurements of his head, abdomen and thigh bone.

And they need to be able to get finance — to start up, to go from small to medium and for medium sized firms to grow into world class businesses.

«It is going to be a tougher period for schools, but I'm clear I want to keep the number of teachers and teaching assistants we've got, to keep class sizes down,» he told the BBC.

«If the class size increases, the children won't get the attention they deserve,» Laris said, noting that she is also concerned that layoffs will force her school to cut music and arts education and after - school programming.

«We need to see class sizes reduced to at least 20 to ensure pupils get the maximum support and attention from their teacher.»

«Despite all the money that has been spent by Labour, schools taking disadvantaged children aren't getting the money they need to break this link by cutting class sizes and providing them with extra support,» he said.

The mayor said he'd keep an eye on the issue as he gets closer to his executive budget rollout in May, though his preliminary budget contained no additional police classes to ramp up the department's size.

Our priorities are the priorities of the people of Wales: more nurses so they have the time to care for our loved ones, smaller class sizes so teachers have the time to properly teach our children, and an Opportunity Economy that helps businesses and supports people so they can own their get on in life.»

«The data allowed us to get a quantitative understanding of size classes and when these big sharks are using the channel.»

Class sizes are limited to ensure you get the most benefit and personal feedback from the cClass sizes are limited to ensure you get the most benefit and personal feedback from the classclass.

The founder got inspired after a class in school and decided to provide chic fashion and hair extensions to women for all sizes after seeing other online boutiques.

Card cases are the perfect gift for the lady on the go, a teenager who just got her license, a college girl who runs from class to class with her ID card, a new mama who can't carry a full - sized wallet, a dog mama who wants to take her keys out on walks but doesn't want to be without her credit card... you get the picture!

With millions of active users in America, Fling has the member size and get laid guarantee to prove their a world class dating site!

It's fine to talk about more technology in our classrooms, smaller class sizes, new teaching and learning strategies, teacher training, and higher test scores, but few of these discussions get us to the heart of the matter — the roots of our current system.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

It is to no one's advantage if class size skyrockets or librarians get eliminated or school counselors disappear.»

Reality: The evidence indicates that class sizes must be reduced dramatically — to 15 students or fewer — in order to get an impact, and even then it matters only for the very youngest students in the very earliest grades.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL teaching union, warned: «Unless teachers get a significant pay rise, schools will have to start increasing class sizes, or shutting courses and cutting the subjects available to pupils.»

The students learn how they're going to spend the next week or so in math class: designing and building their own «gingerbread» houses (for simplicity, we use graham crackers — they're cheap and easy to get, and they have a very consistent shape and size).

Studies predict that Finland will hang on to its lackadaisical workers, and suggest things like «keep students in school by engaging them with smaller class sizes and better paid teachers» or «get rid of standardized tests» and» individualize learning,» which they'll expand on by saying «create a system that instills curiosity, creativity, passion, and accept that it is impossible to test these things.»

«Research states that if you can get class size in grades K - 3 down to 18 or less, and if the teacher is well qualified to teach reading, those things will impact that child in that class that year, in junior high, in high school, and in college,» the secretary told the crowd.

But spending on smaller class sizes and academic support like tutoring did more to get students across the finish line and graduate.

[5] The turmoil in Wisconsin got the most attention as the state limited bargaining to just wages and benefits and removed larger issues such as class sizes and teacher assignment policies.

They aren't going to get that help in a larger class size no matter what anyone says.

With class sizes on the rise, many teachers rarely get the chance to see their colleagues in action, and often feel overworked and under - informed.

Synthia loves the smaller class sizes saying she didn't want her daughter to get drowned out in the larger district schools.

Aziz, a student from Sage International School, said that as he neared graduation, he realizes that «small class size and getting to know the people around me in such a personal way... is not something that all high school students get in their schools.»

«The condition that our schools find themselves in in terms of class size, in terms of schools not having nurses and librarians, educators that have not gotten a pay increase for seven years, that absolutely determines for us that we have got to pursue our Schools LA Students Deserve campaign aggressively,» he said.

Public schools would get $ 500 million, including $ 248 million annually to fully fund reductions in class sizes approved by 72 percent of voters in 2000.

Parents are also getting the message that Senate lawmakers are not planning to take up the class size issue next month.

These children especially have a higher dropout rate with the equivalency in reading level of an elementary school child, and that has more to do with having a grading system that moves children up grade levels without warrant and those students not getting enough attention with giant class sizes.

And another: These «e-learning labs,» were opened at the start of this academic year to help school officials get around the state law — approved in a referendum by voters in 2002 — that limits class size.

«If you have enough money to hire enough people to have reasonable class sizes and to be able to pay them sufficient wages so that you're getting good people coming into the profession, that's most of the battle of providing quality schooling.»

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

«We need to lower the class sizes so that each student can get that one - on - one attention that they need,» says a second - grade teacher.

My fear is that unwitting parents and community members will join SFC because they want to rectify the problems they see every day in their children's public schools, such as underfunding, lack of arts programs, large class sizes, and cuts to the school year, only to find that they get roped into very different goals.

With first semester class size counts completed Friday, Legg wants to see how far out of hand the situation has gotten, and then look at scaling back.

The union claims that they just want to see kids get the best education possible, and small class sizes are the key to accomplishing that.

However, mandating small class sizes means hiring more teachers to get to an ideal number of students per class.

So that's meant larger class sizes, higher staff turnover, older curriculum, technology that is not up to date, and kids getting less individual support.