Sentences with phrase «to shrink class sizes»

Research does not provide evidence that a district should — or should not — try to improve learning by shrinking class sizes, according to a review by a researcher from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Following are estimates of the portion each state would receive of the $ 1.1 billion to be spent in fiscal 1999 under President Clinton's proposal for shrinking class sizes in the primary grades:

The reform law mandates annual ratings of schools and funding to test students of all ages, shrink class sizes, and pay for professional - development courses.

We can change textbooks, shrink class sizes, publish test scores, and build new buildings, but unless we change what adults do every day inside their classrooms, we can not expect student outcomes to improve.

Just as challenging, they will need to find ways to adapt to shrinking class sizes and fewer resources to offer a diverse and rich curriculum in the intervening time.

Thinking they'd found the holy grail to raising student performance and erasing the achievement gap between poor and affluent children, politicians and policymakers in some states sought to shrink class sizes.

Republicans who control both the House and Senate spurned proposals to enact several other demands by striking teachers, including giving raises to support staff, shrinking class size and adding money for more school counselors.

This is particularly difficult at a time when the supply of teachers is constrained by high turnover rates, annual retirements of longtime teachers, and a decline in students opting for a teaching career — and when demand for teachers is rising due to rigorous national student performance standards and many locales» mandates to shrink class sizes.

Some law schools have begun limiting their class sizes, but with the rate of increase of lawyer jobs in the past few years, law schools would need to shrink their class sizes by around 90 % to even out the supply and demand.

Coupled with the economic crisis that affected the legal industry and the media's critique of legal education, we have all read that law school applications are down and that some schools are shrinking class sizes.