Sentences with phrase «size reduction at»

For cold - blooded creatures — most of the animal life on Earth — the size reduction at higher temperatures happens because warmth speeds up the animals» metabolism.

In addition, the bill caps the use of funds for class size reduction at 10 percent because such efforts have «little to no effect on student learning.»

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Another reduction, though the relatively small size of Berkshire's holdings makes the sales discernible only in the 13F filings, is that Berkshire cut its investment in Moody's (MCO) from about 32 million shares at the end of 2009 to 28.4 million a year later.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

This is a reduction in their position size as they owned 3.5 million shares at the end of Q1.

Ewa Hudson, head of health and wellness research, Euromonitor, explains, «These combined initiatives are likely to result in sugar reduction in beverages or launches of new, containing less added sugar beverages, as well portion size restrictions for snacks (for example, Magnum at 250 kcal).»

Critics of the Government alleged that reductions in primary class sizes had only been achieved at the expense of class sizes in secondary schools.

Since such appointments are made at a far greater rate than the reduction in size of the Lords (due to death or retirement), the Lords will grow and grow.

Regardless of when plate tectonics began, he adds, this grain - size - reduction mechanism could have been very important for causing weak zones in the lithosphere at all times in Earth's history.

Line widths should be legible upon reduction (minimum of 0.5 pt at the final reduced size).

«This work provides strong evidence for the reduced pest burden for non - Bt corn caused by the Bt corn, based on a reduction in overall pest - population size,» says David Hopkins, director of science at the Scottish Crop Research Institute near Dundee, UK.

«It's not that new laws of nature are being discovered,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US, «but a reduction in size brings about differences in how familiar laws of physics play out at a small scale».

«There is still no ancestor - descendant sequence from Flores that supports body size reduction from a larger bodied H. erectus ancestor,» says Peter Brown at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the original hobbit excavations at Liang Bua.

(A, B) Overexpressing both GBP1 and GBP2 partially rescues body size reduction in gbp1, gbp2 ex67 mutant females (A) and males (B) at 22 °C.

A decrease in the mean levels of thyroglobulin as well as a small reduction in goiter size was observed at 6 and 12 months.

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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.

The importance of substitutes in the lives of students is made more poignant by class - size reductions, which have increased the number of classes at different grade levels and increased the demand for substitute teachers.

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.

Certainly our policymakers are not willing to concede the point, not at the federal, state, or local levels, where arguments continue to rage over assessments, charter schools, vouchers, class - size reduction, and many other strategies for school reform.

To fulfill the purposes of the amendment, the Florida state legislature has in recent years allocated state funds that must be used for class size reduction in those districts not yet at the limit.

There may be less costly reforms that are at least as effective as class - size reduction.

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

This widespread support for class - size reduction has translated into legislative action at the state and federal levels.

Efforts at the state level have been supported by the Clinton administration's class - size reduction program, passed in 1998, which was to fund the hiring of around 29,000 new teachers during the 1999 - 2000 school year alone.

Additional resources to support class size reduction acknowledge the deep - seated inequities at the core of Australian schooling, but would not be enough.

Reviewing data from Project STAR — a longitudinal research study on class - size reduction in Tennessee and the most famous experiment on the topic — Spyros Konstantopoulos, an assistant professor of education and social policy at Northwestern...

While teacher quality (and the quality of teacher preparation) is at the heart of the effectiveness of almost any reform, conflating STR with class size reduction fails to focus on the mechanisms thought to be at work in smaller classes.

A study of California schools that underwent class size reduction in 1996, found that teachers and parents are happier, according to a recent Daily Report Card: «Teachers say they can cover more topics, teach at a faster pace, give more attention to students having trouble, and identify those who need special education sooner.»

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.

Similarly, class size policies are likely to be effective if they include large class size reductions in the earliest grades targeted at the neediest children.

In 1996, when the Golden State was awash in cash, California decided to launch a state - wide class - size reduction program that would, over time, reward districts for capping classes in grades K - 3 at 20 students.

The measure's defeat also isn't expected to renew support for previous voter - approved initiatives 728 and 732 — aimed at class - size reductions and cost - of - living pay increases for teachers, respectively — which were suspended by the Legislature last year.

But the reduction in class size comes at a cost.

On a side note: It is interesting to note that Brown and Torlakson are on record supporting class size reductions, but Tuck and Kashkari haven't mentioned it at all in any medium.

reductions in force and large class sizes or massive borrowing, often at high interest rates.

Small classes have been found to enhance learning to a measurable extent, particularly in the early elementary years (see for example the reports on Class Size Reduction, < http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/cs/ >; a research summary Small Class Size Trumps Vouchers In Terms of Results, Costs, and Public Support by American Federation of Teachers at < http://www.aft.org/pdfs/teachers/vouchersvssmallclass0498.pdf >).

This flexibility is what has allowed districts to use additional teaching positions to provide enhancement courses or targeted class - size reductions for at - risk students.

In addition, options should include research - based improvements including class size reduction, expansion of preschool programs, and more parent involvement in decision - making at all levels.

• Support for improving schools rather than closing them, by means of evidence - based solutions, including class size reduction and expansion of preK programs, as designed by parents and other stakeholders at the school level.

Every controlled study of the California class size reduction program — and there have been at least six so far — have shown significant gains from smaller classes.

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.»

Future funding (FY2000 and later) is $ 43 ppu which must be allocated to school sites and reserved for programs aimed at enhancing implementation of the standards through staff development, technology, gifted and talented programs, or class size reduction.

Despite the size reduction, it produces an additional 14 horses for a total of 463 hp, with torque unchanged at 516 lb - ft.

Owing to the reduction in size and weight driving the Acadia in pesky city traffic is now easier but some amount of body roll sets in when you turn at high speed or drive on highway.

After another reduction in the size of the air restrictors for the 2009 season (as mandated by governing body of world motor sport), the engine now delivers around 450 bhp (331 kW) at 7,800 rpm, and develops a maximum torque of 430 Nm at 7,250 rpm.

Housing the electric motor, generator, power split device and a reduction gear in one lightweight, highly compact transmission casing directly comparable in size to that of a conventional gearbox, the transaxle lies at the heart of the Hybrid Synergy Drive ® system.

The reduction in screen size has made the Vinci Tab II a lot cheaper, with prices starting at $ 169, down from the $ 199 that its bigger cousin costs.

After a major specs leak and a photo teaser tweeted by CEO Michael Tamblyn himself, Rakuten Kobo has announced the Kobo Aura One, a giant «book - size» premium e-reader priced at $ 250 with new features including a waterproof IPX8 rating and auto blue light reduction for evening use.