Sentences with phrase «on class sizes at»

Administrators said moving Hockanum's elementary students will have a minimal impact on class sizes at receiving schools.

Not exact matches

Branded airline amenity kits filled with travel - sized personal care items have been handed out to business and / or first - class passengers on long commercial flights since at least the 1950s, according to the SFO Museum at San Francisco International Airport.

«We've deliberately looked for people who are builders, who've been there with growth companies, who are best in class at what they do, and we really don't care where they're located, because at this small size we can do everything on the phone, and we use GoTo Meeting and Skype,» she says.

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 chuckat 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 chuckAt 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 chuckat 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

Baby came a few days before our 2 day weekend intensive childbirth class at the hospital scheduled for 38 weeks (daddy was happy to get out of that), also before our infant CPR class (which we then had to take after he was born) and before our FEU (Fetal Evalution Unit) ultrasound to find out a good estimate on his size using measurements of his head, abdomen and thigh bone.

Following a fruitless (all the raisins and soggy satsumas were left firmly at the bottom of their lunchboxes) back - and - forth on class sizes, Miliband lost his attention span and preferred to take on the notorious schoolroom bully with a bold rejoinder:

A report published in December 2011 by the Department for Education looked at the impact of a rising birth rate on pupil numbers and how that could affect class sizes and educational outcomes.

Jacobs said that includes improvements to the Scajaquada Expressway, extending Metro Rail to the DL&W Terminal, redevelopment of the former Bethlehem Steel site, $ 10 million for Say Yes to Education, $ 20 million to expand class sizes at the University at Buffalo medical school and $ 20 million to build a Visitor Welcome Center on Grand Island, among other capital projects.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

«These new events are in a relatively rare class of eruptions on Io because of their size and astonishingly high thermal emission,» states Ashley Davies, a volcanologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

On the one hand many considered that fixed height furniture enables children to sit with a reasonable posture, providing that a variety of sizes (two in secondary schools) is provided in each class, and that children sit on and at furniture relevant to their individual heightOn the one hand many considered that fixed height furniture enables children to sit with a reasonable posture, providing that a variety of sizes (two in secondary schools) is provided in each class, and that children sit on and at furniture relevant to their individual heighton and at furniture relevant to their individual heights.

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.

Published earlier this month in the electronic journal Education Policy Analysis Archives, the study is based on California's recent experiences at reducing class sizes to 20 or fewer students in kindergarten through the 3rd grade.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

The only way to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is to help excellent teachers increase their productivity: swap portions of excellent teachers» time with digital instruction so they can teach more classes with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks to other adults; use digital tools to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other teachers; and let the willing have more students to nurture under their strong wings.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

ATL policy adviser Anne Heavey, who spoke to MPs at the drop - in session, said: «We urged MPs to speak to heads to find out what they will lose per student and what that will mean in terms of staff redundancies, bigger class sizes, school repairs and so on.»

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

Its school report cards include extensive information on class size: by grade level and by subject at the secondary level.

Yet on close reading, de Blasio's nine - page education plan offers mostly bromides and impossible dreams: «ensure that all students are reading at grade level by third grade,» «reduce class size,» «involve and engage parents and families,» and «place great leaders to lead great teachers in every school.»

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

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.

Titanic Assembly or Class Play Cast size 30 - easily adaptable up or down Duration: 15 minutes This Titanic assembly or class play examines what happened on the Titanic's maiden cruise and looks at why it was such a shocking traClass Play Cast size 30 - easily adaptable up or down Duration: 15 minutes This Titanic assembly or class play examines what happened on the Titanic's maiden cruise and looks at why it was such a shocking traclass play examines what happened on the Titanic's maiden cruise and looks at why it was such a shocking tragedy.

In this sense, RAND simply repeats an already well - known finding: that if you rely on imprecise statewide data and if you ignore all other aspects of state educational policy, you will often find that average statewide school spending and class size have at least a minor effect on student performance.

☐ Is overseen by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐ Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level

This allows me more time to provide significantly more personalized instruction to fewer students at a time, or to execute hands on labs that might have otherwise been logistically impossible given the class size constraints.

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.

Examining 277 separate studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

And we will end the waste caused by the free schools programme, targeting spending on areas of need so we can cap class sizes for five, six and seven - year - olds at 30,» said a spokesperson.

He examined 277 different studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, he found that 15 percent of the studies found an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent found no effect at all — and 13 percent found that reducing class size had a negative effect on achievement.

He examined 277 different studies on the effect of teacher - pupil ratios and class - size averages on student achievement, and found that only 15 percent of the studies indicated an improvement in achievement, while 72 percent showed no effect at all.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

Chelsea Superintendent Mary Bourque notes that Phoenix offers different resources, such as the on - site daycare, the opportunity for students to progress at their own pace, and, in some cases, smaller class sizes.

At an early afternoon press conference on Tuesday, Senate leader Phil Berger (R - Rockingham) and Senator Harry Brown (R - Jones, Onslow) touted the Senate's proposal to reduce class size for grades K - 3, adding 2,000 classroom teacher positions to the state's rolls next year.

HB 665, authored by Rep. George Moraitis, R - Fort Lauderdale, would calculate a school's penalty based on the average class size at each site rather than the total number of classrooms that surpass the cap.

On a side note: It is interesting to note that Brown and Torlakson are on record supporting class size reductions, but Tuck and Kashkari haven't mentioned it at all in any mediuOn a side note: It is interesting to note that Brown and Torlakson are on record supporting class size reductions, but Tuck and Kashkari haven't mentioned it at all in any mediuon record supporting class size reductions, but Tuck and Kashkari haven't mentioned it at all in any medium.

To the extent that they are successful at reducing class size, teachers unions have another positive impact on student outcomes: For every one - student decrease in class size, test scores tend to improve by 0.8 - 1.1 points.

Small classes have been found to enhance learning to a measurable extent, particularly in the early elementary years (see for example the reports on Class Size Reduction, < http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/cs/ >; a research summary Small Class Size Trumps Vouchers In Terms of Results, Costs, and Public Support by American Federation of Teachers at < http://www.aft.org/pdfs/teachers/vouchersvssmallclass0498.pdf >).

Elementary school teachers rely heavily on teacher assistants to manage their classrooms and ensure learning gains, especially at a time when lawmakers have lifted the cap on class size.

Based on district enrollment projections for the 2017 - 18 school year, North Carolina's schools will require at least 28,345 teachers in grades K - 3 to meet the tightened class - size requirements slated to go into effect in the 2018 - 19 school year.

Today, with a budget approved that includes at least a temporary respite on the harshestimpacts of the state's class size controversy, school districts across the state may still face packed classes in grades 4 - 12, the loss of planning periods for teachers or major job losses next year when more stringent class - size regulations are scheduled to take effect.

While the issues at stake vary by state, a number of elections this cycle will hinge on a variety of education - related questions, including recent cuts to public schools, growing class sizes, Common Core State Standards, access to pre-K education and the availability of state - funded student loans for college.

For example, California Watch reports that not only have California's class sizes risen by an average of 5 students at the primary level and 3 at higher grade levels (making 31 students the new average in classrooms from fourth grade on up), but almost 60 % of the state's school districts have shaved days off the school year.

Speaking of fiscal sustainability, Jeff Bennett at New Jersey Education Aid does a deep dive on Lakewood's budget «disaster,» which threatens to raise class size to 40 children.

The statement came at the same time as Labour leader Ed Miliband was delivering his speech on Labour's education plans in which he pledged to reduce class sizes in primary education.

In this paper we investigate the effects of class size on the achievements of a sample of college students enrolled at a middle - sized Italian public university.