Higher productivity conflicts with their accepted goal of low student teacher ratios and with conventional wisdom on what is required for quality education.
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Sabrina Mangrum works hard as a student teacher in Maryland, and even harder at home, where she and her husband are raising six children, aged two-25.
Louis plans to deploy 420 Android tablets next year, enough for every student and teacher.
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As the popularity of Facebook and Twitter has increased, so have the complaints about inappropriate student-teacher contact.
Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.
Bushman's first assignment, while a student-teacher in 2002, was at Louis D.
It's also clear that there's much we want to know about student, teacher and school performance that cannot be determined from test results alone.
Charter schools are the exception, beacons of success which attract many parents with the promise of low student-teacher ratios, alternative programs and proven results.
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Every student and teacher that is part off the BBC project at Holy family Catholic School Keighley are all very happy that the project is finally done.
While I cannot say that this bill was passed with poor intentions, I believe that the bill inadvertently cripples the potential for valuable student and teacher connections.
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However, when you think about it, a low student-teacher ratio goal, is specifically a low-productivity goal inconsistent with productivity increases needed to stretch scarce tax and tuition dollars.
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It's clear that systems that gauge student, teacher and school performance on standardized test scores put intense pressure on those results and inevitably tempt people to finagle them.
States would have to meet certain conditions, such as hiring "well-trained teachers" paid comparably to those in K-12, adopting rigorous curricula, keeping student-teacher ratios low and assessing youngsters.
Administrators could use the device to take notes during classroom observations, search student and teacher databases and make and receive phone calls, says Adam Garry, a Dell manager of global professional learning.
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By law, student-teacher ratios can't exceed 10 to 1, lead teachers must have a bachelor's degree and an early-childhood certificate, and they must be paid on the same salary scale as K-12 teachers.
In response to the strike, she has set up a national advisory committee with over 70 members, including student, teacher and parent representatives as well as educational experts, to make recommendations on school reform.
Jim Keith, an education lawyer who represents several school boards in Missouri, has been giving talks to teachers in which he explains that most of the inappropriate student-teacher relationships start out on a friendship level.
Comprising the bulk of the top 10 list are small liberal arts schools like Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Kenyon College in Ohio and Bennington College in Vermont--all high on prestige and low on student-teacher ratios.
About 10 percent of the students attend regular classes at those schools, with an aide to help them, but 90 percent are in special classes, with student-teacher ratios as small as 1-to-1 and as large as eight students with two aides and one teacher.
If a teacher is dealing with a student through social media and it's within the bounds of the teacher-student relationship, and it's related to school and all that, I have no comment on that.
These would eventually include requiring all states to adopt higher standards for student proficiency and teacher-evaluation systems that included student achievement.
As reluctant royal student and impertinent teacher, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush give memorable performances.
There was a sharper line between the responsibilities of a parent, a student, a teacher, and an administrator.
In the past, I had been either a student or a teacher, and previously in China, I had been both.
But every student and every teacher made it to the roof safely and not a single life was lost in the school.
"When it comes to attacks like this, American people can relate to the word 'terrorism, '" one student told the teacher, according to him.
No one yet knows whether this new approach will translate into dramatic improvements in student performance or teacher retention, but Schorr is hopeful.
"My expectation is that every child, every adult, every parent, every student, every teacher is respected in this building, and that didn't happen yesterday because of Whitson's, " he told WJAR.
The law's mandated student testing and teacher training have come with little funding, forcing many low-income schools to choose between investing in core academic offerings or paying for the new requirements, the Arizona governor said.
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