Sentences with phrase «in class size if»

In other words, we need to look for ways other than mere increases in expenditure or reductions in class size if we are going to enhance the quality of our education system.

Not exact matches

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.

Since percipients encounter relatively persistent sources of agency, patterns of interactions of these agents with each other can give rise to compound individuals of indefinitely - high degrees of complexity.21 Whitehead often wrote, particularly in his less - formal work, as if entities of various sizes could properly be classed as actual entities.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

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 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.

However, if your child is a student who can finish at the top of his or her public school class while securing the support needed to navigate the college admissions process, then he or she may be better off as a giant gerbil in a pint - sized Habitrail.

Because class sizes are limited and our scheduling must be done far in advance for each program, if you cancel less than 30 days prior to the start of the program, you will be responsible for the full investment.

«I do not care how good the teacher is, if class sizes continue to grow, our classrooms will be less effective environments for learning, and that is unacceptable to the future of our State in my view.»

«So if ending tax credits for high earners is the price we pay for cutting class sizes and investing in disadvantaged pupils, so be it.

If you don't like to pay a fair wage to teachers, maybe you should consider moving to one of the southern states where the school taxes are low, but the kids have no books, huge class size, teachers that are not as good as ours and have most of their classes in temporary class rooms.

If a grade has five or six classes today and one is eliminated, class sizes in that grade would spike by five or six students, said Queens Councilman Daniel Dromm, a former public school teacher.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

As plus - sized yogis, Rachel and Elizabeth know that sometimes it can be hard to feel comfortable in a typical yoga classes, especially if you are just starting out on your yoga journey.

If you're in town on a Sunday morning, there's nothing better than Dance Church, a dance workout class for people of all shapes, sizes and identities.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

The teachers in Tennessee knew they were participating in an experiment, which if successful could persuade the legislature to make class size reduction a statewide priority.

• 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.

Second, there is little, if any, evidence that a modest increase in class size would have devastating consequences.

Thus, even if school districts did succeed in reducing the gap in access to effective teaching with their own personnel policies, they would inevitably have to reduce other services to pay for them, e.g., larger class sizes, or lower base salaries.

These and other differences, such as the quality of a nation's teachers, can be valuable tools in discerning where, if ever, class - size reductions are likely to be beneficial.

If teacher quality is a key input in education, this interpretation can explain why class - size effects exist in some countries but not in others and at the same time why the countries in our sample where we did find sizable class - size effects also exhibit poor overall performance.

The smaller size is only three pages and it is great if you are going to print of individual copies for students to practice with in class or at home.

If, as in the example above, state and local funds are to support one teacher per 25 students in grades K - 3, the auditor would check that any Title I funds spent on K - 3 teachers line up dollar for dollar with reductions below that baseline class size in Title I schools.

Through the 2008 — 09 school year, administrators have been considered in compliance if their schoolwide average class sizes were under the constitutional limits.

«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.

The smaller size is only three pages and is great if you are going to print of individual copies for students to practice in class or at home.

The smaller size is only three pages and it is great if you are going to print of individual (or to work in pairs) copies for students to practice with in class or at home.

Similarly, class size policies are likely to be effective if they include large class size reductions in the earliest grades targeted at the neediest children.

The smaller size is only two pages and it great if you are going to print of individual copies for students to practice with in class or at home.

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.

Under the current conditions of CA's abysmal (if slightly improving) school funding, class sizes in the state... Read More

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

If budgets are tight and class size is on the table, they should compare their class sizes to those in nearby charters.

But it remains unclear whether improvements of the kind identified in Project STAR would justify the costs of reducing class sizes - particularly if it were attempted on a large scale.

If we do, we would conclude that, in general, education expenditures have little effect on student performance, that increasing teacher pay yields no effect, that the effects of class - size reduction depend very much on the state in which it is implemented, that monies should be set aside so that teachers who say they need them have more materials.

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.

One cost model estimates that high - quality programming costs in the range of $ 8,521 per child with a class size of 20 to $ 10,375 per child with a class size of 15, if the program is a full - day, year - round, and led by a teacher with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education.Barbara Gault, Anne W. Mitchell, and Eric Williams.

If the unions are right and class - size really does matter, then the highest performing countries in the world would have the fewest students per class.

If current law stands and the General Assembly does not fund enhancement teachers or make other changes this January, local school districts will have to begin drawing up plans to comply with the mandate that include the following scenarios, they say: increase class sizes in grades 4 - 12; cut or displace arts, music, PE and special education classes; reassign students to different schools to alleviate crowding; and, in some cases, eliminate or displace Pre-Kindergarten.

Much to our dismay, one of the top - identified laws from which these districts would be exempt was the statutory 22:1 class size limit in grades K - 4, including having to notify parents if class size limits are exceeded.

Jodi Robins, the assistant principal of curriculum at Miami Beach High, said that even if students struggled in certain subjects, the virtual labs were necessary because «there's no way to beat the class - size mandate without it.»

2) If spending in New York City public education is recovering, why are class sizes still ballooning?

Even if we could reduce some of the administrative «fat» that has recently accumulated in, say, Windham, the money recovered could not begin to pay for the programs, services, class sizes, etc., that we should have here.

Meanwhile, given the prevailing push for smaller class sizes in schools, Cartner added that it makes little sense to shrink classes in K - 3 if it comes at the expense of grades 4 - 12.

It adds: «With pupil numbers in secondary schools set to increase, it is unlikely that teaching timetables can be reduced if teacher numbers do not keep pace and there is not an increase in class sizes.»

The Our Schools Now campaign is a ballot initiative effort that would put a question on the ballot in November 2018 asking Utahns if they would raise their own taxes if they could be sure that money went directly to education with a primary goal of reducing class sizes and improving education turnouts in Utah.

If left to choose one aspect of the TEP model to employ in their school systems, superintendents and school boards might be expected to choose the lowest - cost option and increase class sizes.

At this point, the easy process of picking and choosing which laws to follow via the innovation district mechanism means that the taxpayers and parents in your district won't necessarily have certified teachers to instruct their children, won't necessarily be informed if they don't, won't know if their class sizes exceed 22:1 in early grades, and won't have information about much of anything affecting their children's education.