Sentences with phrase «where class sizes»

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary.

«The value of consolidation is that it's going to make those sorts of situations where class sizes are going to be high less likely,» Foyle said.

He could have capped class sizes in specific classes and searched for better school design where class sizes would be lowered especially in K - 3rd grade.

Contrast this with the local school where class sizes are notoriously large and there has been a «white flight» of middle class students out of this school to private schools in the last few years.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

Not exact matches

«We've deliberately looked for people who are builders, who've been there with growth companies, who are best in class at what they do, and we really don't care where they're located, because at this small size we can do everything on the phone, and we use GoTo Meeting and Skype,» she says.

Unlike your personal credit, it's not expressed in a fairly universal score, but rather is typically expressed in a series of reports that address how timely a business repays vendors who offer payment terms, their payment history with any current small business loans, industry information (including the overall creditworthiness of other businesses within that industry), and comparisons between the business and others within the same revenue class, size, number of employees, and the region where they do business.

THEN the players come, because every manager on world class level (aka where a club with the size of Arsenal should pick from) knows how to deal with players.

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

All of the candidates also agreed that smaller class sizes should be a priority, and said that they would zero in on lower grades, where they argued the most impact can be made.

If you don't like to pay a fair wage to teachers, maybe you should consider moving to one of the southern states where the school taxes are low, but the kids have no books, huge class size, teachers that are not as good as ours and have most of their classes in temporary class rooms.

Unfortunately, following years of neglect from the Bloomberg administration, our city's school system is plagued by school overcrowding and excessive class sizes, where hundreds of thousands of our children simply don't have adequate space to learn.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

My kids go to a school with small class sizes, where everybody knows everybody and pretty much everybody's family.

Smaller class sizes enable classroom teachers to build a community where everyone is respected.

Looking back, I had an ideal situation: class sizes of no more than 15 students, in a small community where everyone knows everyone, and a four - day work week!

But for educators in the school district, where reducing class size was a priority, the wait was worthwhile.

There are two ways to do that based on the class size and dynamics: one giant circle for all students, or fishbowl style (where the participants in an inner circle have a discussion and the participants in an outer circle coach the inner circle).

Certainly our policymakers are not willing to concede the point, not at the federal, state, or local levels, where arguments continue to rage over assessments, charter schools, vouchers, class - size reduction, and many other strategies for school reform.

State ballot measures involving education faced a tough sell in Tuesday's elections, including in Florida, where a hotly contested initiative that would have loosened a 2002 constitutional amendment governing class size went down to defeat.

Because mastery isn't a «one size fits all» teaching method where progress is guaranteed as long as you adhere to the «Concrete — Pictorial — Abstract» (CPA) model, and it certainly isn't the case that a whole class Singapore - style teaching model alone leads to good progress for all.

In elementary schools, where students generally spend the day with one teacher, increasing class size because of Khan would mean bigger classes in every other subject, too.

School boards and superintendents are faced with a situation where they lose enrollment so quickly that the only thing they can do is close schools, lay off teachers according to seniority not quality (thanks to «last in, first out» requirements), increase class sizes, and slash their central office staffing and support levels.

Some respondents offered their own two cents on where schools could be most improved — with alternative answers including abolishing academies, addressing mental health awareness and reducing class sizes.

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.

These and other differences, such as the quality of a nation's teachers, can be valuable tools in discerning where, if ever, class - size reductions are likely to be beneficial.

The comparable statistics averaged only 19 percent and 25 percent among countries where no class - size effects and no large class - size effects were found, respectively.

If teacher quality is a key input in education, this interpretation can explain why class - size effects exist in some countries but not in others and at the same time why the countries in our sample where we did find sizable class - size effects also exhibit poor overall performance.

Greece's average class size is similar to the mean class size among the nations where no class - size effects were found, and Iceland's average class size is substantially lower (see Table 1).

However, there is no clear pattern in countries» average class sizes that distinguishes the two countries where substantial class - size effects exist from either the six countries where we ruled out any noteworthy class - size effects or from the five countries where we ruled out at least large class - size effects.

In Australia commentators and politicians alike point to high performing systems such as Shanghai, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, where large class sizes are the norm, as evidence that reducing class sizes is a futile exercise.

Such cuts would only move schools back to where they were before the recession in terms of class sizes and pupil - teacher ratios.

He complained of increasing class sizes, which were the result of compulsory universal education, while arguing that real teaching could take place only on a small scale and not in situations where a teacher's first responsibility was crowd control.

At Whitman High, where kids pay a $ 40 district - wide activities fee, Goodman told me he would rather increase class size than eliminate activities.

It is unclear whether similar results would be obtained in different contexts, such as developed countries, where smaller class sizes may allow more tailored instruction even without tracking, and extra resources, such as remedial education, computer - assisted learning, and special education programs, may already provide tools to help teachers deal with different types of students.

These predictive effects can be based on residuals, where first we form predictions based on observed variables (X) such as class size, years of teacher experience, lagged test scores, and parent characteristics.

Consider the outcome in Florida, where a proposal to loosen the state's strict class size requirements failed to reach the required 60 percent minimum.

The move saved more than a half million dollars, which the district then used to bolster its funding in elementary and middle schools, where it had experienced a significant rise in class sizes.

If you are tired of large class sizes where you feel that you son or daughter is lost among the crowd, you should consider Harbor City International School.

They include centers for innovation and teaching improvement for academically struggling schools, reducing class sizes and adding time to the school day or year, where appropriate.

I could list the effects on my school, where we made hard choices to reduce after - school programs and time for teacher collaboration in an effort to maintain moderate class sizes and services to students with disabilities.

An even more disastrous scene has unfolded in Florida, where voters in 2002 approved an amendment to the state constitution that gradually reduced class sizes in all grades.

What's left unanswered, however, is the issue of where to put all the new classrooms that will be needed to comply with the class size limits.

But from where he sits, Rep. Horn says the best way to resolve all of the issues that are coming as a result of a reduced class size law that leaves too little time and resources for proper implementation is for everyone — House and Senate members as well as representatives from school district offices — to sit down together and talk about finding a mutually acceptable path forward.

To this end, she built a model where the ideal class size is between 24 and 32 children specifically so that children will turn to each other instead of only to the teacher.

Lawmakers did shrink K - 3 class sizes, which is where research shows it does the most good.

With the demands of teaching and with many teachers having multiple classes and large class sizes, teachers need tools to quickly see where they are in their understanding, and to answer questions such as:

An unequal system where some schools have more money, smaller class sizes, and the latest in technology while most are underfunded, have overcrowded classes, and are left with crumbling, outdated facilities.

One district deeply riven by the impact of efforts to dismantle public education is the Spooner Area School District in northwest Wisconsin, where parents, teachers and students have been up in arms over staff cuts, increasing class sizes and other indignities.