Sentences with phrase «more students per class»

Some teachers union officials argue that Amplify's efforts are part of a disturbing effort to lure politicians with technology that promises to enable teachers to handle more students per class — and thus reduce how many teachers school districts will need to employ.

Bill Gates Criticizes Long - Held Norms in America's Education System Microsoft Founder Says Best Teachers Should Be Paid More, Teach More Students Per Class ABC

Bill Gates Criticizes Long - Held Norms in America's Education System Microsoft Founder Says Best Teachers Should Be Paid More, Teach More Students Per Class

Fordham today released a paper by Michael Hansen projecting the impact on student learning if excellent eighth - grade teachers — those in the top 25 percent — were responsible for six or 12 more students per class.

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adolescent homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more per night than public and private school students, who were in class an average of 18 minutes before homeschooled children even awoke.

He predicts that the new 476 - student school will be full almost as soon as it opens, and he wants the Department of Education to add at least one more class per grade.

Students taught in such active - engagement classes were 10 per cent more likely to understand key concepts on subsequent quizzes, according to the study published in The International Journal on Mathematics Education.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

Secondary students with four or more unexcused absences from a class per semester now risk failing the class.

In this four - year longitudinal class - size study, more than 7,000 students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17 students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25 students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time teacher's aide.

«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student,» says Marc.

Educators could, therefore, pay more attention to class design and the number of students per class.»

More than 60 per cent of Class 7 students can not make a scientific prediction related to the outcomes of a context involving the concept of camouflage in animals

Teachers can then, at a glance, see marks, listening duration and more, for individual students or classes, and order them to previous attainment — allowing them to spot exemplary or deficient patterns in knowledge per student and use this to build a more complete profile of their learning.

In a survey of 4000 students (all of whom were involved in service programs) 75 per cent reported learning «more» or «much more» through their service than through their normal classes (Conrad and Hedlin, 1991).

Alternatively, they can keep the price at $ 10,000 but now spend $ 21,000 per student, with the extra money going to things like smaller classes, more student advising and mentoring, or perhaps climbing walls and nap pods.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student.

We also control for the total number of minutes per week that the teacher reported teaching the math or science class, as more total instructional time could have an independent effect on student learning.

For example, I'll try and meet with each of my students once per semester at some point outside of class time and use the conversation to learn more about who they are, what their academic goals are, and whatever other concerns they have.

These classes have fewer students per teacher, allowing for more individualized attention.

Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews noted in a 2006 story how California had a decade earlier authorized a $ 650 - per - pupil bonus to schools with kindergarten - to - third - grade classes of no more than 20 students.

On average, students miss around three days of school due to illness per year, and 15 percent of students report missing more than a week of class.

One of the reasons the school has become so popular, so fast is because of the individualized attention each student receives with no more than 10 students per class group.

School districts were encouraged during those eight years to reduce class sizes by two students per year, and Florida budgeted annually during that time to help districts hire more teachers.

The study determined healthier meals cost approximately $ 80 more per year per student; to achieve similar testing improvements through reducing class sizes by hiring more teachers would cost five times as much.

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

Among the options Kleban presented were increasing the number of students per class, which will bring in more per - pupil funding from the state, or cutting some vacancies and spreading those duties among other educators — having some curriculum directors take on additional teaching duties, for example.

Lancaster ISD and Desoto ISD are bordering districts with nearly identical property wealth and similar populations of low - income students, yet the latter taxes at a much higher rate allowing it to raise $ 656 more per pupil or $ 13,120 for a class of 20 students.

Class Warfare is also studded with easy - to - check errors, such as the claim that Newark schools spend more per student than New York City schools because of a more cumbersome teachers» contract.

Current educational research informs us that poor teacher quality affects student learning more than class size, per - pupil spending or socioeconomic status.

For a class of 25 students, the wealthiest districts spend $ 78,000 more per classroom.

Half of Central Texas students miss more than six class days per year, and account for 85 percent of all absences.

There will be class rotations per day and depending on the student, those will be either on - line more and in - class less, or vice versa.

In keeping with their promises in last year's education reform law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly committed to helping close the per - pupil funding gap that treats charter students like second - class citizens, and also secured funding for more charter schools.

In fact, the charter school averages a student or two more per class.

If you lower class size, which Prop 30 has helped to implement in many districts in the state, you get more teachers (lower class size = more teachers per student) means salaries, etc., etc..

The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur's network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers» unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn't failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.

The Class of 2014 owes an average of $ 33,000 per student, according to college loan experts Edvisors, and more than 40 million Americans shoulder the weight of student debt.

That figure includes working adults who've been paying down their loans for years; more than half of current students must take out loans, and the average debt per borrower in the class of 2016 was $ 27,975.

Students may still move through the program at their own pace, but now have the flexibility to take more classes per semester, allowing a student to potentially complete the Associate Degree curriculum in as little as three years.

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Peter Crisp, the chief executive of the BPP law school, says that his institution's Bar course has no more than four students per class.

(g) A school may not permit more than 36 students per driver education class, excluding makeup students.

Organize undergraduate class of approximately 35 students and 10 learning assistants into small groups (3 - 4 students each) thrice quarterly, ensuring no student is taught by the same learning assistant more than once per quarter.