Sentences with phrase «teacher ratios for»

It's true that with an increase in federal and state subsidies along with a mandate to provide services, we've reduced student teacher ratios for disabled students.

No other adjustments or weights are included in the formula, aside from the different student - to - teacher ratios for different grade levels.

Indeed these findings on mechanisms also fail a simple sniff test: Between 1970 and 2008, pupil - teacher ratios for the nation fell by over thirty percent.

Nationwide, pupil - teacher ratios for the country fell from 17.8 in 1995 to 15.8 in 2008.

The state calculates the number of teacher units required for each school by taking the school's average daily membership and dividing it by student - to - teacher ratios for different grade levels established by the legislature.

(Doing the basic math, the simple student - to - teacher ratio for New York City schools works out to 14 - to - 1.)

The pupil to teacher ratio for GCSE English tends to be high.

Eliminate the 25:1 student - to - teacher ratio for virtual charter schools — a measure based on no convincing empirical evidence that it raises student achievement — and take virtual charters out of the category of independent study.

K12.com offered schools a smaller student - to - teacher ratio for an additional per - student fee.

In Anderson's primary grades, teachers had been team teaching with a 32:2 student - teacher ratio for several years — a system that was not in accordance with our state legislature's recent call for class size reduction.

SBE Allows Higher Student / Teacher Ratio for Online Charter Schools California's State Board of Education approved waiver requests this month increasing the pupil - to - teacher ratio for independent study students at several online charter schools.

The result: an increase in the student - to - teacher ratio for the first time in a decade.

We need, among other things, more equitable appropriation of public funds, implementation of academic programs with a high success record, lowering pupil / teacher ratio for reading and math, and higher pay incentives for seasoned teachers willing to teach in substandard schools.

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So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

The on - site improvements (e.g., computers, books, lower student / teacher ratios — the secondary school used to operate at a 1:67 ratio) and quantitative results (e.g., in the past 5 years, the rate for passing university entrance exams has climbed from 60 to 89 %) are remarkable and I wanted to share some audio and video.

Exceptional teachers, low student to teacher ratios and inspiring children to have a true love for learning are just a few examples of why Children's Garden Nursery School is known for building a solid educational foundation for young children.

This accounts for larger class sizes (i.e. worse student: teacher ratios) in poorer schools as expected.

North Carolina was determined to be the worst state for education based on a number of factors such as education spending, student - to - teacher ratio, and percentage of dumb kids.

Secondly, the school feeding program, though successful in attaining high enrolment, it has negatively impacted teacher - pupil ratio, with implications for quality.

The current government provision already allows for a qualification - related higher ratios: those with Early Years Teacher of Professional Status can care for children aged 3 and 4 in groups of 13 rather than 8.

While it is too soon to tell whether these cuts have direct impact on the provision of services in these regions, the research found evidence that measures related to A&E admissions and waiting times for treatment are deteriorating at a faster rate in London than in the North of England, while pupil - to - teacher ratios in the North are not improving as well as in London.

Funding would provide for ratio of one teacher for every 17.4 regular education students.

For one, private programs tend to enroll children at an earlier age (when student - teacher ratios are low) than public programs.

Revision activities for GCSE profitability ratios «play the teacher».

For example, how much can student - teacher ratios be increased, and at what cost savings, by leveraging technology in the virtual education model?

For too long we measured only inputs to schooling, such as funding levels and student / teacher ratios.

We also examine the effects of court - mandated spending increases on three commonly used proxies for school quality: the length of the school year, teacher salaries, and student - teacher ratios.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

Since we find no support for the notion that schools reduced pupil - teacher ratios in order to counteract the potential negative impact of teacher retirements, we suspect that the teachers who took up the ERI were less effective than the ones who replaced them or than the ones remaining in the school.

I also control for the characteristics of the school, including total enrollment, pupil - to - teacher ratio, racial composition, percentage of students eligible for free lunch, and percentage of returning students.

Since extensive research shows that a ratio of positive - to - negative feedback of between 3 - 1 and 5 - 1 is necessary for healthy learning to occur, teachers might consider a strategy called plussing that is used by Pixar animation studios with great success.

In his study of court decisions on teacher terminations for competency, Zirkel found that «defendant districts prevailed over plaintiff teachers by better than a 3 - to - 1 ratio.»

In these comparisons, we take into account changes in the characteristics of the student body including the percentage of students who are Hispanic, the percent African American, and the percent eligible for the federal free lunch program, as well as changes in the school's student - teacher ratio.

The international math and science scores so important for growth rates are not related to variations in spending on education or other standard measures of school resources, such as pupil - teacher ratios.

Pages of Download Grade 2 Practice Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Measurement Height 12 - 15 - Place Value 16 - 20 - Ordinal Numbers 21 - 25 - Smallest / Largest Number in a set of numbers 26 - 29 - Greater than 30 - 33 - Less than 34 - 36 - Greater than / Less than 37 - 39 - Add or subtract write the sign in the blank 40 - 45 - Adding using place value (example: 4 + 13 + 5) 46 - 51 - Adding with words - Example - what is 150 more than 200 52 - 55 - Skip Counting 56 - 59 - Skip Counting - Missing Numbers on a Number line 60 - 65 - Reading Graphs 65 - 71 - Solving Word Problems 72 - 76 - Time 77 - 83 - Coin Identification and Coin counting 84 - 88 - Counting Dollars and coins 89 - 92 - Geometry 93 - 96 - Fractions 97 - 115 - Answer Keys 116 - 118 - Terms of Use and Credits Pages of Download Grade 3 Practice Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Measurement Height 12 - 19 - Place Value 20 - 24 - Find the smallest / largest number from a set of numbers 25 - 28 - Number Words 29 - 32 - Skip Counting - complete the sequence 33 - 37 - Counting dollars and coins 38 - 48 - Reading thermometers - temperature 49 - 53 - Reading graphs 54 - 57 - Reading Calendars 58 - 62 - Numerators and Denominators 63 - 67 - Fraction Circles 68 - 72 - Fractions of a solid 73 - 78 - Word Problems 79 - 83 - Data Tables 84 - 88 - Multi-Step Word Problems 89 - 92 - Rounding to the nearest ten 93 - 96 - Rounding to the nearest hundred 97 - 100 - Rounding word problems 101 - 103 - Probability 104 - 107 - Geometry - identifying shapes 108 - 110 - Height of a triangle 111 - 113 - Angles identifying right, acute, and obtuse 114 - 117 - Symmetry and Angles 118 - 121 - Perimeter 122 - 125 - Area 126 - 129 - Elapsed Time 130 - 155 - Answer Keys 156 - 158 - Credits and Terms of Use Pages of Download Grade 4 practice sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Patterns 12 - 15 - Parallel and Perpendicular Lines 16 - 26 - Reading Temperature 27 - 31 - Reading Graphs 32 - 36 - Coordinate Graphs 37 - 41 - Skip Counting - complete the sequence 42 - 46 - Place Value 47 - 50 - Number Words 51 - 55 - Powers of 10 56 - 60 - Adding using Place Value 61 - 70 - Fractions 71 - 75 - Fraction Word Problems 76 - 80 - Convert Fractions to Decimals 81 - 85 - Convert Decimals to Fractions 86 - 90 - Height of a figure 91 - 95 - Missing Number in an equation 96 - 100 - Balancing Equations 101 - 105 - Data Tables - ordering numbers 106 - 110 - Data Table Addition 111 - 115 - Data Table Time 116 - 120 - Data Table Subtraction 121 - 125 - Estimation Word Problems 126 - 130 - Ratio Word Problems 131 - 134 - Probability 135 - 140 - Spinner Probability 141 - 145 - Arrays 146 - 173 - Answer Keys 174 - 177 - Credits and Terms of Use Pages of Download Grade 5 Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 7 - Units of Measure 8 - 12 - Reading Graphs 13 - 17 - Number Words 18 - 22 - Place Value 23 - 27 - Decimal Place Value 28 - 32 - Rounding Numbers 33 - 37 - Complete the sequence, skip counting 38 - 42 - Solving Equations 43 - 47 - Variable Equations 48 - 52 - Simplify Expressions 53 - 57 - Finding the Mean 58 - 62 - Mean, Median, Mode 63 - 67 - Greatest Common Factor 68 - 72 - Fractions 73 - 77 - Comparing a set of Fractions 78 - 83 - Comparing Multiple Fractions 84 - 93 - Fraction Word Problems 94 - 98 - Estimating / Estimation Word Problems 99 - 103 - Possible Outcome Problems 104 - 108 - Distance Word Problems 109 - 113 - Division Word Problems 114 - 118 - Ratio Word Problems 119 - 124 - Coordinate Graphs 125 - 130 - Perimeter 131 - 135 - Area 136 - 145 Elapsed Time Clocks and Watches 146 - 171 - Answer Keys 172 - 175 - Credits and Terms of Use

To adjust for this, we assume that the change in the real cost of special education services is commensurate with the change in student - teacher ratios.

Mr. Phillips» plan for educational reform calls for increasing teachers» pay, funding school construction, decreasing the student - teacher ratio, and establishing day - care programs in the schools.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Without significant support for teacher training, the cost - benefit ratio of one - to - one computing rarely is justified.

Finally, the knowledge of whether or not institutions utilize mentors or teaching assistants and information on teacher to student ratios in online classrooms can help online teachers gauge the number of hours needed for them to teach.

The decline of the student / teacher ratio was steady across the 40 - year period; moreover, as economists Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin have found, it was mainly growth in the pool of mainstream teachers, rather than those of administrators or special - education teachers, that accounted for the decline.

For example, Texas» state requirement of a student - teacher ratio of 22 to 1 in elementary classes has been relaxed.

All the enrolled students are divided by all the teachers in the school, yet it should not be assumed that teachers entered into the ratio are teaching for all of the time.

These courses were entertaining, relevant to young people's lives outside of school, required little or no homework, and, for PE, were amenable to high student / teacher ratios.

Abecedarian was a full - day, year - round program with a very low teacher - child ratio (1:3 for infants and 1:6 for five - year - olds), and unusually qualified staff and management.

For example, the student - to - teacher ratio required for grades K - 2 is 18 - to -For example, the student - to - teacher ratio required for grades K - 2 is 18 - to -for grades K - 2 is 18 - to - 1.

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

Together with census data, that information allows for the calculation of the ratio of minority teachers to minority adults for each state, which serves as an index of minority representation.

Eleven state officials conducted a one - day site evaluation of the Cleveland - area district, examining issues such as pupil - teacher ratios and whether minimum time requirements were being met for instruction.