Sentences with phrase «progress on class sizes»

Not exact matches

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

(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.»)

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.

«After 18 bargaining sessions since July, LAUSD has yet to present legitimate counterproposals on key elements of our Schools LA Students Deserve campaign,» the union said in a statement, listing class sizes, due process for housed teachers, support for restorative justice programs and elimination of teacher evaluations among the issues on which progress has been elusive.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Larry K. Shumway had figures from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on Utah student performance in math, science and language arts compared with states with similar scores and then cross-referenced with class size and per - pupil funding.

Instead of focusing on what the data says an «average» child should achieve, and driving an entire class towards that goal, the smaller class sizes and more relaxed approach to progress in special schools means teachers can respond to the needs of each child, based on individual strengths and weaknesses.

There are many different ways to use effect sizes but here we focus on progress — not on comparisons between classes, teaching methods etc..

MORE caucus believes the UFT leadership should insist on progress for reducing class size, the top priority of parents and the ONLY way to truly personalize learning or differentiate instruction instead of agreeing to misguided and destructive policies poorly disguised as potentially beneficial experiments on our children.