Sentences with phrase «size reduction improves»

A new review of SAGE findings answers questions on how much class - size reduction improves student achievement and which groups it affects most.

[vii] Certainly there is evidence that class - size reduction improves student outcomes in the early grades, [viii] though many will point out that it is an extremely expensive intervention that involves tradeoffs.

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Mr Clarke will expand on his cost reduction plans further this morning but his comments could mean the winemaker is in for a tough round of cost cutting and job losses as the new boss attempts to right size the business and improve its earnings, especially in the US where its biggest asset, US wine group Beringer, is suffering weakening earnings and profitability.

Reduction in Package Size Maintains Brand Image While Improving Environmental Impact, Intel Corporation — USA

It also improves the barrier for sensitive (moisture / oxygen) drugs by using the space gained from the reduction in blister size for increasing the seal width.

«This study provides the first evidence that age - related heart dysfunction can be improved even in late life via appropriate drug treatment,» added Melov, who said the treated mice saw a reduction in heart size, reduced stress signaling in heart tissues and a reduction in inflammation.

Another factor that the team needed to investigate for improved operation latency was the reduction of the size of each message exchanged on the network.

It is also possible that the patient's likely increased fat oxidation rates may have contributed to her improved metabolism and may be aligned with her reported reduction in waist size.

The plant is considered one of the supreme adaptogens in Ayurvedic medicine and recent studies have shown that it improves power output, muscle size and recovery during athletic training, reduction in fatigue and overall improvement in strength.

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.

No estimates of the impacts of class size reduction suggest impacts anywhere near as large as those related to improving teacher quality.

Jensen suggests that the majority of studies around the world have shown that class size reductions do not significantly improve student outcomes, and that the funds should have been redirected toward enhancing teacher quality.

Targeted class size reductions combined with other proven methods of improving achievement would be a more cost - effective means of increasing student achievement.

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.

Moreover, the program proved to be a highly cost - effective means of improving reading scores, especially when compared with the common alternatives, like class size reductions and raising teachers» salaries.

Senate leader Phil Berger (R - Rockingham) cites decades - old research to support his claims that class size reductions are the best course of action for improving student achievement — a study out of Tennessee that Randolph County Board of Education chair Todd Cutler said is flawed and many researchers are unconvinced of the study's results.

Research shows that class - size reduction, when bolstered with strong teaching strategies, can help improve student performance.

Simply force - hiring more teachers isn't going to improve outcomes, and it will reinforce the «good money after bad» mantra about public education when the results of class size reduction aren't as significant as expected.

This program pays for professional development for educators and class - size reduction in school districts — two things research clearly demonstrates help improve student achievement.

• 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.

Programs like class - size reduction are fine candidates for improving the progress of poor students and the working conditions of teachers, but they may not always work as we hope.

The conclusion reached by this team of researchers was that in all grade levels that were related to computers in the classrooms, there were small -LRB--.09) to moderate -LRB--.35) effect sizes for reductions in conduct violations and disciplinary actions and improved attendance.

For the compact and mid-size classes, in addition to the reductions in size and weight, transmission efficiency was greatly improved by expanding the ratio range to achieve fuel efficiency improvements of 5 % and 10 % compared to the conventional CVT and comparable 5ATs, respectively.

The reduction in fuel consumption across the range comes despite the increase in size of the 2.0 - litre four - cylinder petrol engine over the 1.8 it replaces, the improved response from its direct fuel - injection advancements (it has port - injection too) and the fact that performance outputs are up by more than 20 per cent — to 126kW / 205Nm.

The reduction in size and weight was implemented to improve fuel economy and emissions as a result of the United States Federal Government passage of Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations.

basis files into your pipeline usually improves size reduction as well as runtime performance (transcoding files is typically faster than lossless decompression).

A critical threat to the potential for future reduction of CO2 emissions from use of fuel economy technologies is that they can be used to increase vehicle power and size rather than to improve the overall fuel economy and reduce carbon emissions.

The new 10.5 - inch iPad replaces 2016's 9.7 - inch Pro model, offering a 20 per cent larger display and a 40 per cent reduction in bezel size, but how does it compare to the improved larger sibling?