Sentences with phrase «on class size as»

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Besides miles and miles of storage lockers of various sizes, all running along corridors named for nearby Etobicoke streets, it will feature a world - class wine - storage centre with an on - site sommelier, as well as sharp - looking lounge spaces for tasting parties — «a kind of country - club set - up,» Creighton says.

In my nightly stock and ETF pick newsletter, I generally use a minimum ADTV requirement of 100k - 500k shares for individual stocks (depending on share size of the position), but may go as low as 50k shares for ETFs (in order to achieve greater asset class diversity).

And I'm not alone in feeling this way, judging from comments on a Globe and Mail story regarding class sizes, as well as Spencer Callaghan's Yummy Mummy Club post on the failures of Ontario's kindergarten program.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

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

i bought a package of the xxl size and put one of them on my 7 year old daughter under her communion dress last may.i baby powdered her first then put them on her.she wore them all day and they did nt cause her any problems.they were the same color white as her pretty dress.most of the little girls in her class also had rubberpants on under their dresses also.

Teleclasses: These are scheduled on a conference line, as required, to accommodate a minimum class size of ten.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

The mayor said he'd keep an eye on the issue as he gets closer to his executive budget rollout in May, though his preliminary budget contained no additional police classes to ramp up the department's size.

All of the candidates have said they support the key components of Superintendent Kriner Cash's agenda, such as community schools, lower class sizes and a focus on early literacy.

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.

and even for a symbolic price just class!!!! on my breast volume of 93 cm and 78 waist size 12 took as for me sewn!!!

Creating wall - sized portraits of locals as they travel from town to town, the two inquisitive, kindred - spirit directors peer into the day - to - day life of rural and working - class France, the camera listening and learning as old and middle - aged villagers remember how coal miners used to bathe and eat back in the day or goat - cheese makers give their differing opinions on the subject of dehorning.

As documented in the book Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution, this includes such things as lecturing, managing classroom behavior, scoring papers and tests, preparing for state testing, updating grade books — and I'd add to the list such things as lesson planning for one - size - fits - none lessons (see Chapter 5 of Disrupting ClassAs documented in the book Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution, this includes such things as lecturing, managing classroom behavior, scoring papers and tests, preparing for state testing, updating grade books — and I'd add to the list such things as lesson planning for one - size - fits - none lessons (see Chapter 5 of Disrupting Classas lecturing, managing classroom behavior, scoring papers and tests, preparing for state testing, updating grade books — and I'd add to the list such things as lesson planning for one - size - fits - none lessons (see Chapter 5 of Disrupting Classas lesson planning for one - size - fits - none lessons (see Chapter 5 of Disrupting Class).

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

Although the demand for teachers also depends on policies such as class size and the use of technology, this increase in retirement - eligible teachers may well portend the need to hire more teachers in upcoming years.

Printing Tip if using as a loop card: You will need a number of copies, depending on class size, one pack per table.

Stoll: The money should be spent on reducing class size, on providing teachers with more prep time, on improving school grounds so that students have the ability to study nature in nature, on providing lessons in the humanities and in other technologies, such as plumbing, woodworking, auto mechanics, home economics.

Research on teacher quality, charter schools, school leadership, class size, and other factors in school quality is likely to be as or more important than research on race - specific policies for reducing gaps in student achievement.

Modeling themselves on industrial unions, they fought successfully for better and more equitable salaries, job security, and improved working conditions, such as limits on class size.

These results cast doubt on the desirability of class - size reduction in the middle grades as a reform strategy in many countries.

Reform efforts such as school choice, charter schools, reconstituting schools, and reducing class size all rest on the belief that changes in structure or governance will result in higher student achievement.

And again, even Duncan admitted as much when he later said that «class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it on.»

Advocates for and against class - size reduction have engaged in or been accused of engaging in such cherry picking for as long as there has been research on this issue (Whitehurst and Chingos 2011, 3).

The pack includes: Powerpoint - A Powerpoint about the festival of Hanukkah - when it is, what is eaten, how it is celebrated - the pages could also be printed off to enable you to create a class book for the children to read Photographs - Colour photos of a Menorah, a Dreidel, Hanukkah Gelt and people lighting the Menorah candles - great to add to your displays or for discussion Word cards Fact cards - Fact cards about the festival of Hanukkah Display banners - 2 different large titles for displays «Happy Hanukkah» and «Hanukkah» each with Hanukkah themed pictures Display border - A colourful display border with Hanukkah themed pictures - this can be printed as many times as you need to use on a display border of any size Writing pages - A collection of decorated A4 border pages - great for the children's work or to add to your writing area at Hanukkah Colour page border - A collection of colour A4 border pages - a great way to quickly display the children's work Colour posters - A set of A4 information posters with pictures of Gelt money, Menorah, Dreidel and Potato Latkes Display lettering - Large letters spelling «Hanukkah» which are decorated with pictures linked to Hanukkah - Great for a larger display Hanukkah story - The Hanukkah story for you to read aloud to the children Colouring posters - A collection of posters for the children to colour - these could also be printed smaller for the children to use on their Hanukkah cards Bookmarks - A collection of Hanukkah themed bookmarks for the children to cut out and colour Number line - A number line to 50 on colourful Dreidels Alphabet line - An alphabet line on candles - this could also be used for other festivals or a part of a birthday display Colour posters - A4 posters with pictures of images associated with Hanukkah Songs and rhymes - A collection of decorated song sheets with songs and rhymes about Hanukkah including two number rhymes Recipe - A photo recipe to make Latke cakes - a popular Hanukkah dish - the pages can be printed to make a book or used for displays Dreidel game - A Dreidel spinner to cut out and play the game of Dreidel Make a Dreidel - A 3D Dreidel spinner to make complete with instructions Hanukkah cards Acrostic poem Maths worksheet - Count the number of Dreidels Addition worksheet - Add the numbers on the Dreidels Menorah Counting - Worksheets to count the number of Menorah candles lit Cut and make a Menorah Number dominoes Word search Worksheets - Match the Hanukkah words to the pictures, draw the Hanukkah pictures and fill in the missing words Writing activities - Worksheets to write the Dreidel instructions and writing about Hanukkah

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.

The study considered by most experts to be the landmark experimental study on the effects of class size is known as the STAR (Student / Teacher Achievement Ratio) project.

Moreover, there may be other factors, unrelated to class size, that lead to swings in classroom performance, such as a dog barking in the parking lot on the day of the test or special classroom «chemistry» reflecting a good match between a particular classroom of students and a particular teacher.

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

One option is to focus on structural features of schools and classrooms, such as teacher education and certification, class size, and curriculum, and enact policies to ensure that these proxies for quality are uniformly in place.

They tried to isolate how much any individual teacher adds or detracts by comparing how the students scored on end - of - year tests to how similar students did with other teachers, controlling for a host of such things as test scores in the prior year, gender, suspensions, English language knowledge, and class size.

As a further point of comparison I provide results from a study [xvii] of Project STAR that examined the impact on middle school test scores of exposure to class size reduction in the early grades.

These predictive effects can be based on residuals, where first we form predictions based on observed variables (X) such as class size, years of teacher experience, lagged test scores, and parent characteristics.

After considerable research, we decided that blended learning would allow us to expand class size to 28 - 30 students and still maintain what we viewed as a non-negotiable: our emphasis on individualized and small - group instruction.

However, most courts that have historically entered into educational policy areas other than funding have discouraged real structural changes, focusing instead on the continuation of past policies, such as class size reduction or across - the - board salary increases for teachers, which carry with them increased funding.

(As Matt Chingos pointed out in a 2011 report for the Center for American Progress, the «enormously popular» and enormously expensive CSR programs have produced «surprisingly little high - quality research... on the effects of class size on student achievement.»)

As a class, count and record the number of ads of different sizes and the number of individual (1 - or 2 - line) ads that appear on each page.

[vii] The SIG grants in California averaged approximately $ 1,500 per pupil, so the program was costly, but the benefits were greater than other popular approaches, such as class size reduction, even on a per - dollar basis.

We do not have any data on concrete measures of quality, such as class sizes or reliance on non-tenure-track faculty.

should not be used as some kind of foolish bargaining chip to lift caps on class size in general education.

He would stand up at school board meetings and flat out lie to the board — as in the lie that no research supports reducing class size having a positive impact on student achievement.

This contrasts with the voluminous research on class size, which shows that class size reduction is one of the very few ways to narrow the achievement gap and one of only four reforms cited by the Institute of Education Sciences as proven to work through rigorous evidence.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (pictured right) also tweeted today: «This government continues to waste money on its vanity project free school programme as class sizes rise for infants.»

As the current school year heads into its final months, Onslow County school and county officials are focused on the year ahead and the challenges to meet state K - 3 class size requirements.

«Targeted increases in class - size would require fewer teachers overall and the savings from the reduced number of teachers could be repurposed as bonuses for the teachers taking on larger classes.

This K - 5 Harvest Network school is praised on its website for having small class sizes as well as an «African American focus.»

Far too much energy in the past decade has focused on simply securing full school years and adjusting class sizes up or down as revenues surged and collapsed.

The reports describe these programs as being characterized by large class sizes, heavy responsibilities placed on parents, and weak student academic growth.