Sentences with phrase «size reductions do»

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.

Both Greece and Iceland performed considerably below the international average on TIMSS, while the countries where class - size reduction did not have even a small effect performed above the average.

Not exact matches

«In truth and in fact, regular use of My Silhouette does not result in significant reductions in body size,» the FTC alleged in its complaint, before concluding that Beiersdorf's ads were «false or misleading.»

In 2014, the Malaysian Ministry of Health started implementing an initiative in collaboration with Malaysia's major fast food restaurants to encourage the reduction of portion sizes and the provision of healthier alternatives for high - calorie meals, food and beverages; the initiative does not define targeted food and beverages.

As committed to breastfeeding as I am and have always been (I have been putting off a breast reduction even though the size of my breasts might be contributing to early osteoparthritis because I think some of my chronic health issues are related to poor early nutrition - not just formula - feeding but plenty of other over-processed junk), I don't know that I'd have been willing or able to go through all that if my plumbing wasn't working.

Mr Johnson told MPs: «The reduction in the overall size of the procurement does not represent a change in policy.

In a speech, he did not give any indication of the size of the cuts ahead, but in an interview on the BBC Today programme, he dismissed speculation of a 35 per cent reduction as «way in excess of what we are talking about».

In 2012, they reported results of a clinical trial that found significant reduction in the size of heart attack - caused scars in patients who underwent the experimental stem cell procedure, compared to others who did not.

In two mouse models of pancreatic cancer, a single treatment consisting of intravenous delivery of the PMILs followed by localized delivery of near - infrared light to the tumor site via optical fibers resulted in significantly greater reduction in tumor size than did either treatment with XL184 or PDT with BPD alone.

First, most climate simulations, including ours above and those of IPCC [1], do not include slow feedbacks such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.

Weight loss (a reduction in size of fat cells) of any kind will result in significant improvement in blood sugars and A1c and diabetes can be reversed if calories are low enough, so one does not have to worry about that if one is losing weight.

I am a size 0 with little to no fat on top and a size 14 on bottom and have been on a plant based diet for 6 months and take tumeric supplements and have not seen reduction in the swelling in my legs, although I do have more focus, energy, and memory increased noticably.

While the Bush administration has retreated somewhat, its «No Child Left Behind Act» does provide states with block grants that can be used for class - size reduction.

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.

Class - size reduction isn't working because it doesn't exist.

Mini-briefs in this series are: Regulating Charter Schools; The Effectiveness of Class Size Reduction; Does Money Matter?

If we do, we would conclude that, in general, education expenditures have little effect on student performance, that increasing teacher pay yields no effect, that the effects of class - size reduction depend very much on the state in which it is implemented, that monies should be set aside so that teachers who say they need them have more materials.

But class - size reduction alone doesn't always lead to high student performance; teachers must also acquire and practice effective teaching strategies.

The lesson is all too clear: If class - size reduction is to narrow the achievement gap, as it did in Tennessee, schools need to get the plan right; otherwise, their efforts can easily backfire.

The General Assembly has failed to appropriate any additional money to fund this second round of class - size reductions (despite promising to do so).

Don't we have a moral obligation to provide equitable opportunities to all children, especially when we know that class size reduction especially benefits those who need this help most?

Senator Chad Barefoot, a chairman of the influential Senate Appropriations Committee on Education / Higher Education, has stated that he doesn't know what districts have done with the «tens of millions of dollars» provided to school districts for class size reduction.

We will also share some fact sheets including «Why Tying Teacher Salaries to Test Scores Doesn't Work,» a comparison chart of the relative success of reducing class size versus using Race to the Top strategies (no surprise — class size reduction works better!)

A buyer would need to equip the new Acadia correctly to indeed see such a drastic weight reduction, but the Acadia doesn't just drop a waist size for 2017.

The unfortunate reduction in print book purchasing could go either way; while ebook spending did increase for most libraries regardless of size, overall materials spending decreased in library systems who had suffered branch closing, reductions in staff, and reductions in operating hours.

On the other hand Samsung's and RIM's marketing effort is to sell you 7 inch as a feature making it more usable than the iPad, when in fact it doesn't make a terrible lot of sense in size and weight reduction, because you lose battery time — Galaxy has half of iPad at best — you lose work space — you can't do office on 7 ″ as like on 10 ″ and you don't gain that much portability.

Did you know that just by calling your creditors and requesting to be on their «hardship» program that you can cut your interest rates, sometimes even qualifying for zero interest charges or a reduction in the size of your required monthly payment?

Neutering is not one of the canine prostate treatment options since it does not result in a reduction in prostate size since testosterone does not cause the disease.

Early neutering of cats does not cause reduction of urethral size as in some other species.

In fact, for winter 2018/2019 (December through March), ISO New England forecasts a winter peak demand of 650 MW less than it did one year ago — a reduction roughly equivalent in size to the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth, MA.

DO NOT INCLUDE SLOW FEEDBACKS such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.

First, most climate simulations, including ours above and those of IPCC [1], do not include slow feedbacks such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.

Or might an industry - wide reduction in department size actually lead to even greater growth for the ops community (given that many of us would argue that one really good ops person added to a legal team can exponentially multiply the output of 10 lawyers doing great legal work; the addition of another lawyer to that department simply adds a lawyer to the team, making them an 11 - lawyer department).

Overall, subject to the above, the commission would have to have regard for the need to ensure that the size of the House of Lords did not exceed that of the House of Commons — this would result in a reduction in the membership of the second chamber.

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?

However, for both child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108 Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of interventions to prevent child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and Early Start programs as the most effective with regard to preventing maltreatment and childhood injuries.