Sentences with phrase «reduces average teacher»

«Most states have reduced average teacher pay since 2010, after adjusting for inflation, but Arizona and Oklahoma are among the deepest - cutting states.»

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But Connelly changed things, reducing English and math class sizes to an average of sixteen students, hiring more teachers for core subjects («I buy teachers — I don't buy test coordinators,» she states), and switching to mastery grading.

Our results suggest that the teacher retirements caused by the ERI program did not reduce student achievement on average, and they may even have increased it.

The new initiative will help hire an additional 100,000 well - prepared teachers and reduce class size in grades 1 - 3 to a nationwide average of 18.

In a school where 80 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, the parents of the average child would have a 48 percent chance of selecting the teacher with a high - satisfaction and average achievement rating over the teacher with average ratings on both satisfaction and achievement.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

Even when they are told that «reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $ 10,000,» 44 percent of Americans select class - size reduction, whereas 28 percent select increasing teacher salaries.

Class Size Reduction Question: Reducing average class sizes by 3 students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $ 10,000.

Average class size was reduced from 84 to 46 students in the 140 schools that received funds for a new teacher.

One group of survey respondents, randomly chosen, was told, «Reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by 13 % or buying $ 10,000 in new books and technologies for each class every year.»

It would require hiring an additional 145,000 teachers, on top of standard hiring needs, to reduce average pupil - teacher ratios from the current 16 - to - 1 to pre-recession ratios of 15.3 to 1.

If California were to reduce student - teacher ratios to the national average, districts would have to hire 135,000 additional teachers.

PARCC will also replace the one end - of - year high stakes accountability test with a series of assessments throughout the year that will be averaged into one score for accountability purposes, reducing the weight given to a single test administered on a single day, and providing valuable information to students and teachers throughout the year.

Unionization and the introduction of collective bargaining can be expected to increase average pay for all teachers but reduce the difference between average pay and the pay received by those with both high and low aptitudes, thereby discouraging entry into teaching by women with higher aptitude while attracting those with lower aptitudes.

Witness also its finding that it is particularly important to reduce class sizes in states that begin with high average pupil - teacher ratios.

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.

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.

The United States would have to reduce teacher salaries about 5 percent below their current average of $ 41,460 and increase class size by 10 percent — to nearly 17 students per teacher — to be optimally efficient, the researchers said.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

«Reducing the student - teacher ratios to the national average would require hiring a total of 135,000 additional teachers beyond the current teaching force of around 300,000.»

On average, teachers reduced their hours by 13 per cent compared to those who stayed in the profession.

While research has demonstrated the economic and social benefits of high - quality preschool — improved kindergarten readiness, reduced special education and grade retention — salaries for pre-K teachers on average continue to lag behind the average salary for public elementary school teachers.

They examined a variety of factors, such as student gender, age, health, socioeconomic status, education of parents, whether the school was urban or suburban, the number of years of experience among teachers, the school's average test performance and the rate of free - or reduced - price lunch program participation.

School districts were forced to reduce average class size in part to pay for teachers of special education students, who require small class sizes, and they will have to continue to do that.

Five years in a row of above average teaching, and you can reduce the stressors among students and teachers that begin to make way for cognitive development and essential learning skills.»

The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low - income than high - income students.

This work can be double - checked against the figures in the 2015 budget when — under slightly different numbers for grade 1 enrollment and average teacher salaries — reducing the grade 1 allotment ratio from 17 students to 16 students was calculated to cost $ 27 million.