Sentences with phrase «larger school class»

Providing smaller classes does help children focus more than a larger school class setting.

The Play is written for a large cast of 20, in order to accommodate larger school class sizes, though roles could double for a smaller cast, and adjustments could be made to final revelation scene to accommodate this.

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A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

Arizona's largest school district and some others will resume classes after lawmakers approved money for teacher pay raises and additional education funding.

I grew up in Detroit, among urban, working - class blacks while my white mother sent me to a suburban, lily white, private Christian school and a large, white Baptist Church who denied me baptism in 1987 for being «half - black.»

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

We send eighteen - year - olds off to college rather than to professional schools, and, for a large part of four years, students take classes in subjects with no obvious relevance to their future jobs.

On the terrain of conservative Protestantism, especially in the regions and social classes where families remain large and strong and where leaders are motivated to send out fleets of buses to scoop up the young while parents are slugabed, any talk of the Sunday school being in trouble would not be comprehensible.

Tyjon Lindsey, a Corona (CA) native and the No. 21 player in the 2017 class, tweeted this large list of schools he's still considering:

A large group of Gray High School products — including a five - star and several four - stars in the 2019 class — is expected to be in Ann Arbor in February.

In conjunction with May as Exercise is Medicine ® Month, «The World's Largest Exercise Class» is coming to children and schools around the world May 1, as millions of participants across the globe celebrate the 25th annual Project ACES ® Day beginning at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 1.

Download one chapter at a time due to the very large file size Chapter One Waldorf Education and Education Reform Chapter Two The Waldorf Understanding of the Purpose of Education Chapter Three Research Objectives and Procedures Chapter Four How Waldorf Teachers Set Learning Goals Chapter Five Teaching and Making Assessments in a Waldorf Classroom Chapter Six Formal Assessments in Waldorf Education Chapter Seven Learning - centered Assessments: Waldorf Methods in Concept Chapter Eight The Preparation, Profession, and Practice of a Waldorf Class Teacher Chapter Nine Teacher Evaluation in Waldorf Elementary Schools Chapter Ten Waldorf Education and the Future of Assessment for Learning

I also became acutely aware of the challenges public school art teachers face with large class sizes, poor quality materials, and infrequent class time.

The high school Family and Consumer Science teacher collaborated with the Environmental Science teacher to coordinate their classes to teach about nutrition while growing vegetables in the greenhouse for four large taste tests.

To remedy this problem, some districts, particularly those in large urban areas, have adopted universal, in - class breakfast programs whereby all students are able to obtain and eat a free breakfast in their classrooms at the start of the school day.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

For seven years, she worked for The Help Group, a large non-profit in Los Angeles as a school - based therapist and clinical director, and has co-facilitated social skills groups and taught parenting classes.

She graduated magna cum laude with her BSc in Midwifery from MCU, and was named student of the year among the largest graduating class in the history the school for her achievements in the field of midwifery.

In 1998, Florida became the first state to require a class on relationships and marriage for high school students, part of a larger plan to encourage marriage skills by discounting marriage licenses for couples that take a premarital skills course.

And in a large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal, in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300 schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our school food budget.

Classroom management challenges are growing as our school systems experience financial cut backs, staffing shortages, larger class size.

This accounts for larger class sizes (i.e. worse student: teacher ratios) in poorer schools as expected.

And though the results as published do not completely rule out the idea that other factors were at play, the ad campaign itself seems to have been a deciding factor in defeating a Florida initiative that would have led to larger class sizes in the state's public schools.

«Year after year we have seen cuts or small increases that haven't kept up with inflation,» said Ms. James, who bemoaned a list of problems with city schools including large class sizes, schools closing, the high drop out rate for children of color and cuts to music and arts programming.

At least 42 school districts, including the state's six largest, canceled classes for the day, affecting close to 1 million students.

WBFO's senior reporter Eileen Buckley says UB is welcoming it's largest - ever medical school class.

The University at Buffalo has welcomed its largest - ever medical school class for a new semester.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

New teachers will be assigned to schools with large infant class sizes alongside substantial special educational needs or high levels of deprivation.

Erie County's largest school districts return to school today after summer recess: Sept. 5 Start of Classes: Akron, Alden, Amherst, Buffalo, Clarence,...

The shadow education secretary was taken to task over Labour's pledge to ensure that no pupil is in a class larger than 30 children in the first three years of primary school.

The survey found that teachers thought other causes of indiscipline were a lack of backup from senior management, the influence of negative TV and media, large class sizes and a lack of enforcement of school rules.

A large majority of students at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School in Buffalo walked out of class Wednesday morning.

The manifesto also proposed a large increase in public spending on education, which would allow for the school leaving age to be increased to 18 and reduce average class sizes to 19 pupils.

In addition he said that 650,000 children will be «crammed» into primary school classes larger than 30 pupils, and families will be nearly # 450 worse off per child as a result of Tory plans to scrap free school meals for 1.7 million children.

This has meant larger class sizes, the elimination of entire programs and the elimination of electives at the high school level — and every district in New York has suffered.

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.

Joel Klein, the former schools chancellor who now runs Amplify, News Corp.'s education - technology business, had great enthusiasm for the iZone, especially its technology component: He envisioned classes in which Nobel laureates, such as Richard Feynman, would teach large groups of students via video.

The city's plan to lay off 4,200 teachers and not replace another 1,500 would disrupt schools, upend children's lives, and lead to the largest increase in class sizes in 35 years, he said.

«Governor Cuomo's first budget makes heartlessly large cuts to our schools to finance tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and students in poor and middle class districts will lose the most educationally,» the group's executive director, Billy Easton, said in a statement.

The UFT will present the fact - finding panel with evidence that New York City public school teachers, in addition to having the largest class sizes and the neediest students, are on average the lowest paid in the region.

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.

They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were tested for acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control subject, genetics.

Upper - level high school students, the report says, should take far more science and math classes, and a larger proportion of college graduates should go into teaching.

«Our results provide a large body of evidence demonstrating that the harmine drug class can make human beta cells proliferate at levels that may be relevant for diabetes treatment,» said senior study author Andrew Stewart, MD, Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine.

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus would seem to have everything he needs to create a world - class graduate school in biomedical science — about 1150 tenured and tenure - track researchers, the country's largest clinical research center, and scores of experts in the hot new discipline of bioinformatics.

The researchers conducted a large controlled trial of almost 2000 students aged 14 - 16 in 78 classes from 23 schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which teachers were asked to teach genetics before evolution or evolution before genetics.

Established in 1964, NSU now includes 16 colleges, the 215,000 - square - foot Center for Collaborative Research, a private JK - 12 grade school, the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development with specialists in Autism, the world - class NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, and the Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, which is Florida's largest public library.

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