Sentences with phrase «increasing class size»

Increasing class size diminishes the earning potential and therefore the value of a veterinary medical degree, yet the cost of the degree continues to escalate.

One from the University of Richmond concluded that increasing class size to 30 students to 45 had a negative impact on the amount of critical and analytical thinking required in business classes, on the clarity of presentations, the effectiveness of teaching methods, the instructor's ability to keep students interested, and the timeliness of feedback, among many other key factors of educational quality.

A hallmark of the Broad - style leadership is closing existing schools rather than attempting to improve them, increasing class size, opening charter schools, imposing high - stakes test - based accountability systems on teachers and students, and implementing of pay for performance schemes.

He did file a deficit elimination plan, which said shutting down half of Detroit's 142 schools and increasing class size to 60 would expunge the deficit.

Our baseline results suggest that increasing class size by 20 students reduces a student's wage by approximately 6 percent.

Research also shows that increasing class size has detrimental and costly long - term effects on at - risk children.

«The purpose of recent rhetoric from the deformers about increasing class size sets the stage for «virtual schools.»

And we are increasing class size,» he said.

The California shortage statistics are partly suppressed by another factor: increasing class size.

Called to shrink K - 3 class sizes already this year, Crutchfield points out his school district trimmed initial estimates of about 76 new teachers down to 52 by increasing class size in grades 4 - 12.

They may reduce class size in core subjects to support writing instruction and formative assessment while increasing class size in elective courses.

States that already have classes on the larger side may be less comfortable increasing class size in order to allow students to stay in school longer.

There's no doubt that teachers and parents prefer smaller classes, but what would the impact on student learning be of increasing class size by this modest amount in order to make a large increase in the number of days students spend in school?

The Manhattan middle school relies on public funds for everything but its facilities, cutting costs by eliminating admin positions and increasing class size.

As a result, districts with tight budgets funded RttT by increasing class size, providing extra study - hall periods, and cutting athletics, librarians, art, and music.

The evidence suggests that increasing class size will harm not only children's academic results in the short run, but also their long - term success at school and beyond.

«How can we add another program while we're increasing class size?»

Given that 55 % of K - 12 spending funds teacher salaries and benefits, you can't cut costs without boosting the productivity of good teachers — which requires increasing class size.

In elementary schools, where students generally spend the day with one teacher, increasing class size because of Khan would mean bigger classes in every other subject, too.

Some say they're going to have to lay off teachers and staff, increase class sizes, or cut extracurricular activities.

They are increasing class sizes, furloughing teachers, asking students to bring one ream of paper per class due to budget shortfall.

But further cuts will require far more layoffs of active teachers, increasing class sizes, Korn said.

It will be increased class sizes if they can even figure out how to weave kids into other classes.

That will keep schools from cutting programs, increasing class sizes and providing additional classroom services to students, according to the Alliance for Quality Education.

Now a combination of Quomo's low ball budget proposal along with the poorly constructed tax cap in place school local school districts need to portray the extremely unpopular cuts they now face (loss of electives and AP options; cuts to music, art and athletics; increased class size) as being directly the result of decisions made by our legislators in Albany.

Class Size Matters founder Leonie Haimson said the city has instead increased class sizes, with nearly one - third of all students in classes of 30 or more children.

It was either that or increase class sizes and cut clubs, activities, music and intramural sports, according to Stephen Lunden, assistant superintendent for administrative services.

The report listed «educational resource deficiencies» that were familiar to the platoon of school leaders — ranging from increased class size and libraries being repurposed for classrooms to staff cuts and the reduction of pre-K programs from full - day to half - day.

However, for ineffective teachers, increased class size exacerbates the negative effect on students» future earnings.

[v] Indeed, Matthew Chingos has shown that schools would do well to increase class sizes modestly in order to cover the costs of a longer year; the time - related benefits for student achievement would far outweigh any losses due to larger classes.

School boards and superintendents are faced with a situation where they lose enrollment so quickly that the only thing they can do is close schools, lay off teachers according to seniority not quality (thanks to «last in, first out» requirements), increase class sizes, and slash their central office staffing and support levels.

Ideas to save money include shortening the school day as they can not afford to pay staff to teach lessons for a whole week, and other proposals include cutting teaching and support jobs and increasing class sizes while reducing the curriculum.

'' Without sufficient funds schools will be forced to drop subjects from the curriculum, increase class sizes or cut staff numbers.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary, NUT, said: «No head teacher should be put in the position of increasing class sizes, leaving building repairs undone or cutting staff and resources simply to balance the books.

Funding inequities, which allow some districts to have state of the art facilities and programs, complete with new computers for all students, quality free athletic programs, and comparatively high teacher salaries, while other districts are forced to cut teachers, increase class sizes, institute pay - to - play athletics, and do away with busing and art programs, need to be addressed.

Any attempts to increase class sizes will harm student outcomes (Schanzenbach 2014);

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.»

Falling staff numbers as a result of education funding cuts has made some schools increase class sizes, a poll shows.

Brian Lightman, ASCL general secretary, argued that «huge» budget pressures on schools were leaving headteachers with «no alternative» but to increase class sizes.

For those of you who missed it, David Brooks» February 28 column touted the money - saving potential of extending the best teachers» reach, by increasing their class sizes — in exchange for more pay.

It reports, among other things, that without its 1,963 transfer students — who, Oak Park said, generate the same $ 5,537 in revenue as in - district kids — it would have to close an elementary school, limit Advanced Placement and honors programs, scale back arts programming, and increase class sizes.

Consider what has happened since 2001, when the Clark County School District increased class sizes in grades 4 through 12 in order to save tens of millions of dollars.

He complained of increasing class sizes, which were the result of compulsory universal education, while arguing that real teaching could take place only on a small scale and not in situations where a teacher's first responsibility was crowd control.

At Whitman High, where kids pay a $ 40 district - wide activities fee, Goodman told me he would rather increase class size than eliminate activities.

If students spend an age - appropriate amount of time learning independently with adaptive software like Amplify's, excellent teachers can gain the time to teach more students without increasing class sizes, or to help even more students by leading teaching teams and developing their peers on the job.

This posed a risk of increased class sizes in elementary schools and other cuts in a district of just over 5,000 students.

«Teacher shortages can be hard to measure because schools use a variety of strategies to ensure that classes are not left without a teacher, including reducing the curriculum on offer, employing less qualified teachers, or increasing class sizes,» ACER Research Fellow and co-author of the survey report, Dr Paul Weldon, says.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: «We have repeatedly warned that schools have had to increase class sizes because of funding pressures and here is yet more evidence that this is the case.

He said that «huge» budget pressures on schools and colleges were leaving headteachers with «no alternative» but to cut the number of subjects offered to pupils and to increase class sizes.

More than two - thirds of parents see the following as reducing the quality of public education: teacher and staff layoffs; increased class sizes; school closings; high turnover rates; and cutbacks in art, music, libraries and physical education.