District resource capacity and the effects of educational policy: The case of
primary class size reduction in Ontario
Not exact matches
Critics of the Government alleged that
reductions in
primary class sizes had only been achieved at the expense of
class sizes in secondary schools.
Recommendations included the
reduction of
primary school
class sizes and the recruitment of more male teachers.
Grissmer credited improved teaching conditions,
reduction in
class sizes, increased pre-kindergarten enrollment, and more teacher discretion in resources as the
primary reasons for the improvement in the scores.
Those include a
reduction in
class size at the
primary level, a back to basics movement, the return to a phonics - based reading program, and the provision of incentives for teachers who agree to work in disadvantaged areas.
This study takes advantage of a
class -
size -
reduction program and evaluation that involved
primary schools in Bungoma and Butere - Mumias in Western Province, Kenya.
This school faces $ 451,000 in cuts which will result in
class sizes over 40 in the
primary grades, loss of many highly effective teachers, along with drama and fine arts education, and a severe
reduction in their ability to provide for the school's high special needs population.
In Anderson's
primary grades, teachers had been team teaching with a 32:2 student - teacher ratio for several years — a system that was not in accordance with our state legislature's recent call for
class size reduction.