Sentences with phrase «small education gain»
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The WCI suggests that the education sector experienced the largest wage increases over the year to the June quarter 2003, while the smallest gains were in the communications sector.
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Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.
Using the same technique to examine the gains made by the two groups following the implementation of Prop 227, Bali found that putting these same students in a structured immersion classroom the next year eliminated the small gap between English Learners who had been in bilingual education and those not in bilingual education.
In a revealing analysis of a large data set, Hoover Institution economist Eric Hanushek and his colleagues found that placement in special education in grades 3 - 6 was associated with gains of 0.04 standard deviation in reading and 0.11 in math; such small gains indicate that children with LD clearly are not closing the gap.
Extra gains associated with long - term attendance in small classes (in the early grades) appeared not only for tests of measured achievement, but also for other measures of success in education;
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Education Week quotes one of the authors of the report saying the gains in math were so small that it was «literally as though the student did not go to school for the entire year.»
To put this year's gains into context, the ISTEP + pass rate only increased about one percent between 2011 and 2012 — at the time, education policy analysts told StateImpact small gains were still a step in the right direction for Indiana students.
The small high schools managed to achieve these gains at a lower cost per graduate than the traditional schools, partly because more students graduated on time and did not need a costly fifth year of education.
Jeff Gagne, policy director for the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, said small but steady gains like those in Louisiana, including the state's high school graduation rate, are the way to go.
A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»
Choice B: Young college grads with degrees in their desired career area — who complete 5 weeks of education training which includes teaching a class 1 hour daily and a small group 1 hour daily, pass the state required tests, continue basic education classes after they begin teaching, are hired with the district paying a minimum of $ 5,000 per teacher to a private organization, are paid salary and benefits negotiated by the district's union, are sought by big corporations, banks, and Wall Street because of their service and skills gained from 2 years of teaching, after 2 years get discounts and benefits from grad schools and employers, after 2 years receive $ 11,000 toward further degrees in education or that initial career choice, and after 2 years are now «experts» in education seeking positions in government to influence education policy.
NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.
Designed by the Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE), a New Jersey - based nonprofit, the model, called «First Things First,» combined a number of ideas that were gaining currency at the time: small learning communities, «looping» (in which teachers stay with the same students for multiple years) and changes in teaching practices to emphasize engagement and rigor.
Gaining that experience, particularly in small school districts or rural special education agencies, can be very difficult.
ARL flourished under her leadership and gained a national reputation for excellence in large and small animal rescue and health services, animal welfare advocacy, and humane education programs.
«We have seen small but significant gains in the health and education indicators for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but much more needs to be done before Australia can claim true equity in opportunity between First Peoples and other Australians,» said Dr Calma.
Several states continued to struggle to restore cuts from the previous years, while others continued to make small but consistent gains in various early care and education budgets.