Sentences with phrase «reduction in class size»

Currently the funding is used to pay for reductions in class size and conventional professional development; neither has been proven to have a significant or sustainable impact on student achievement.

In other words, we need to look for ways other than mere increases in expenditure or reductions in class size if we are going to enhance the quality of our education system.

How to explain such relentless reductions in class size, especially when they seem to be at the expense of teacher pay?

Finding evidence that reduction in class size raises student achievement has often been difficult.

We are now 10 years into this lawsuit and despite all kinds of claims and promises, there has been no actual increase in school funding and no real reduction in class sizes.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

Tennessee's STAR experiment, which reduced class sizes in the early grades, established that a substantial reduction in class size yields significant gains in achievement.

Also in 1998, Stanford's Caroline Hoxby found that «reductions in class size from a base of 15 to 30 students have no effect on student achievement.»

The results suggest that the effects of a costly ten - student reduction in class size are smaller than the benefit of moving one standard deviation up the teacher quality distribution, highlighting the importance of teacher effectiveness in the determination of school quality.

For example, no effort is made to show the increase in public - school spending in America during the past 30 (or 50) years, the uses to which that money has been put, the steady reduction in class size, the huge increase in numbers of school employees, and the various trends in achievement that correlate almost not at all with any of these resource trends.

Grissmer's reintroduction of highly selective evidence on the effects of extra resources and reductions in class size provides no more support of his work here than it did in the original RAND report.

But the total effect on test scores also increases because the positive effect of adding a day to the school year is always greater than the negative effect of the needed reduction in class size.

Public schools would get $ 500 million, including $ 248 million annually to fully fund reductions in class sizes approved by 72 percent of voters in 2000.

Voters approved a plan for gradual reductions in class size until they reach no more than 18 for grades pre-K-3, 22 for grades 4 - 8, and 25 in high school.

First, RAND assumed that the STAR study demonstrates that class - size reduction is effective in multiple grades when in fact it demonstrates, at most, that a very large reduction in class size has positive effects only in the first year of schooling.

The RAND researchers also try to bolster their methodology by referring to the Project STAR (Student - Teacher Achievement Ratio) experiment, which involved a substantial reduction in class size (from an average of 24 students to an average of 16 students) in Tennessee.

What would Americans in the 1960s reasonably have expected from their public schools if they had been told that the future promised a tripling in real spending for education; a major reduction in class size; and increased job security, higher pay, and sizable new fringe benefits for teachers?

We further tested to see whether a one - student reduction in class sizes would increase TIMSS scores by just one point, or 1 percent of an international standard deviation.

«Bond proceeds and re-programming in the proposed Capital Plan will meet the needs for enhanced education technology, reduction in class size and enable long - term investments in full - day pre-Kindergarten through the construction of new pre-Kindergarten classroom space.»

That additional aid will help support everything from bilingual education and school libraries to reductions in class size.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

We find that increased spending that leads to reductions in class sizes, increased teacher salaries and more instructional school days in a year improved outcomes.

Project STAR was initially designed to study the effects of reductions in class size.

Declines in the relative quality of teachers, reductions in class size, and growth in per - pupil spending can all be traced to the same source — growing demand for skilled workers outside education.

The research summarized here contends that declines in the relative quality of teachers, reductions in class size, and growth in per - pupil spending can all be traced to the same source — growing demand for skilled workers outside education.

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.

Moreover, reductions in class size are at times encouraged by the state through significant financial support, as in California.

This tradition of reform - as - tinkering has been maintained to the present day, with all the familiar proposals - augmented by a new favorite, reductions in class size - continuing to occupy much of the reformist agenda.

An article published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2000 by Caroline Huxby on The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Population Variation reported that reductions in class size had no effect on student achievement.

But the reduction in class size comes at a cost.

In this study we test the performance of some nonexperimental estimators of impacts applied to an educational intervention — reduction in class size — where achievement test scores were the outcome.

But under cross-examination she conceded that mis - assignments can also occur because of layoffs and a reduction in class size.

Reductions in class size and peer tutoring, for example, have been found to be far more effective.

Other frequently cited explanations for shortages include teacher retirements (54 %), teachers leaving the district (34 %), reductions in class size (32 %), and the high cost of living (29 %).

Other frequently cited explanations for shortages include teachers retiring (54 %), teachers leaving the district (34 %), reductions in class size (32 %), and a high cost of living (29 %).

Instead, researchers such as David Grissmer of RAND have found that the reductions in class size that took place nationally in the 1970s and 1980s might account for part or most of the substantial test score gains among poor and minority students — and the narrowing of the achievement gap that took place over the this period.

Dan Goldhaber, an education researcher at the University of Washington, reported, «The effect of increases in teacher quality swamps the impact of any other educational investment, such as reductions in class size.»

Indeed, esteemed researchers such as Peter Blatchford have found that there is no particular threshold that must be reached before students receive benefits from smaller classes, and any reduction in class size increases the probability that they will be on - task and positively engaged in learning.

At a time when new law schools are opening in Canada, and some schools have increased their enrollment, the reason for the reduction in the class size as stated by Hastings» Dean is very interesting and timely given the New York Times declaration last November that «legal education is in crisis ``,... [more]

At a time when new law schools are opening in Canada, and some schools have increased their enrollment, the reason for the reduction in the class size as stated by Hastings» Dean is very interesting and timely given the New York Times declaration last November that «legal education is in crisis ``, and SLAW's own Omar Ha Redeye's excellent commentary on the market and career prospects for new lawyers here last week.