Sentences with phrase «like class size»

Thirty - five percent would be reserved for indicators like class size, absenteeism, and school climate.

In line with the earlier literature, we find that schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects.

ESSA dictates that when crafting accountability plans, states must assign indicators of academic performance «much greater weight» than other measures like class size and school climate.

A strike in which teachers emphasize issues like class size, said Pelto, «actually provides a perfect opportunity to educate the Democratic base about what's going on... the good guys are the ones that are out on the picket line working to defend the profession.»

«Schools that adopt an intensive «No Excuses» attitude towards students are correlated with large gains in academic performance, with traditional inputs like class size playing no role in explaining charter school effects,» researchers write.

Canaday said that the original laws — like class size and teacher training — were put in place for good reason.

Moreover, the program proved to be a highly cost - effective means of improving reading scores, especially when compared with the common alternatives, like class size reductions and raising teachers» salaries.

Parents» groups like Class Size Matters marched and rallied for more involvement; Bloomberg's allies created Mayoral Accountability for School Success and lobbied Albany heavily.

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.»

Not exact matches

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With its sometimes - mottled green exterior, custardy flesh, and lima bean - sized seeds, it looks a little like something from a herbology class at Hogwarts.

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

Personally i feel were fine at CB, i do nt see callum chambers future at Right back, he definately has the size and has the potential to be a top class CB in the future, working with people like Koscielny and Metersacker can only be a learning experience.

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.

I think Coquelin is fantastic defensively literally world class defending but his attacking ability is just not good enough.Had he had that he would be Arsenal's ideal DMF.He has backpocketed the likes of Modric (12/13) Silva, Coutinho, Fellaini (upon his size) etc. with his fantastic defending.Though many people think he was a one season wonder I disagree because even as a youngster he was doing that.I quite remember some of his man of the match performances back then as a young boy.I think he's a fantastic squad option and if Cazorla were to be fit I'd choose Coquelin to pair him.

He honestly looks like he doesn't belong in his class because of his size.

At 17 lbs it enters into a different class of strollers (like City Mini) that are closer to a full size and have travel system capability.

If you'd like me to come to your area, I would love to travel for a class size of 5 - 10.

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.

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.

Bulging class sizes, stagnant salaries, fewer teachers and limited supplies of everything from books to copy paper: That is what the reduction in per - pupil state funding looks like in thousands of classrooms around the country since the Great Recession — despite a much vaunted economic recovery.

According to AQE, this funding has in the past gone toward basic school improvements like reducing class sizes and providing pre-kindergarten classes.

Given that the entire cabin of SS2 is roughly the size of a small executive jet's interior, with perhaps a little more overhead room to accommodate floating passengers, the seats will certainly not be anything like the lie - flat, supermassaging thrones that transoceanic business - class customers have come to expect.

For hundreds of years, Gould argues, questionable measurements of human intelligence, like skull size or IQ, have been used to justify racism, sexism, and class stratification.

And indeed, despite the morphological differences between S0 and elliptical class galaxies, they share a some common characteristics, like typical sizes and spectral features.

Like the Google images, the class may be full of women who are half your size, and the pace and some of the postures may be particularly challenging for bigger bodies.

The class sizes are great because it really feels like you get one on one attention and even after one class the coaches remember your name.

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• 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.

By going back to the tried - and - true rhetoric of class size reduction, the union would like to distract attention from any alternative school improvement policies.

I'd like to see class - size reduction, for instance, paired with an increase in qualified teachers, a greater utilization of technology, and rigorous and relevant curriculum.

Some of their conclusions run counter to prevailing opinion (that class size should be increased, for example), and some — like the one presented in the following excerpt — represent common sense wisdom undergirded by fresh insight from research:

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.

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.»

One held that problem policies like zero tolerance, general abuse of administrative power, class size, and concerns over having qualified teachers, etc., all need to be addressed — that, basically, the system needs to be reformed.

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.

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

Like some college education departments, Teach for America's Institute has suffered from a lack of subject - specific training and from short student - teaching stints with much smaller class sizes than teachers are apt to encounter in the real world.

In some districts, the answer may be yes, but in others — like the earlier push to reduce class size — the answer may clearly be no; however, the push to implement is giving them no choice.

For many parents, the neighborhood charter with smaller class sizes can quickly seem like a better option.

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.

On paper, it looks to most people like a good plan: $ 1.2 billion going straight to needy school districts to hire thousands of new teachers and reduce class sizes in the crucial early grades.

I am too young to have known Coleman personally as a scholar, but I have heard from numerous scholars who did know him that he commenced the EEOS thinking that it would demonstrate, among other things, the importance of school inputs: teacher characteristics, class size, and the like.

Parents value the strength of offerings like teacher quality, math programs, class size, sports teams, and modern technology.

But countries like China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, France, Spain and Germany have larger class - size and outperform us in math, reading and science.

«It's time to stop doing things that don't work, like expanding charter schools and testing, and to start doing more of those things that improve education and student outcomes, like lowering class size and including parents in decision making,» said PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matclass size and including parents in decision making,» said PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson of Class Size Mattsize and including parents in decision making,» said PAA co-founder Leonie Haimson of Class Size MatClass Size MattSize Matters.

Although WakeEd has advocated for greater flexibility on setting class size limits, we are grateful that the General Assembly reached the compromise early enough in 2018 so local school districts like WCPSS could keep the fiscal 2018 - 19 budget development process on track.

Many charter schools are providing an excellent education (tuition - free of course) to students who have long been treated like second - class citizens by our traditional «one - size - fits - all» system.