Sentences with phrase «trends in class size»

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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 economist Caroline Hoxby's model of a «rent seeking» teacher union offers another plausible explanation of the broader trends in pay and class size.

«For a decade or more, SED and its vendors have proved themselves incapable of creating valid, well - designed, non-abusive exams that can be reliably used for diagnostic purposes or to track trends in student achievement over time,» said Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters.

If this new layout is in fact the new first class cabin, I think this further marks the new trend of airlines cutting down the size of their first class cabins.