Infant mortality has declined, and some 100, 000 teachers have been hired to narrow the yawning teacher-student ratio.
Unfortunately, the excitement about big data may obscure this important distinction and may end up degrading, rather than improving, the quality of the teacher-student connection.
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In fact, teacher-student interaction was one of the pillars.
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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.
We need more money, but we need to spend the money wisely and we need to institute reforms that raise standards and push everybody in a school -- principal, teacher, student, parent -- to pursue excellence.
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These would eventually include requiring all states to adopt higher standards for student proficiency and teacher-evaluation systems that included student achievement.
It illsutrates teacher-centred and student-centred approaches which can play a part in helping students relate the curriculum to the real world - both the natural and technological environments in which they live.
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.
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.
As an example, he said that a moment of "indiscretion" between a "23-year-old male teacher with a 17-year-old female student after a sixth form social function could land the teacher in the criminal court, facing six months of imprisonment".
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.
Harvard and Columbia researchers found a good fourth-grade teacher makes a student 1.25% more likely to go to college and earn a higher salary.
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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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He has become a right-wing hero by demonizing teachers, lambasting unions, challenging tenure rights and introducing a crude teacher-evaluation process based on student test scores.
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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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.
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.
But if that realization is leading his team to shun "structural" reforms in favor of classroom-level changes only--merely reconstructing "the learning partnership between teacher and student" as their new materials put it--they're apt to end up disappointed once again.
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.
The project also found that using multiple measures to understand a teacher's performance -- including classroom observations, student surveys and growth in student achievement -- provides a richer and more reliable picture of a teacher's strengths and areas for improvement than any one measure alone.
The programme has been designed for both pre-service teacher education, i.e. for student teachers, and in the in-service education of experienced teachers.
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And in any case, education researchers have been unable to produce any consistent evidence that low pupil- teacher ratios actually do improve student performance.
During his campaign, he often noted Somerville's low student-to-teacher ratio.
It is part of a broader initiative, NYC21C, that began last year and looks for ways ways to educate students beyond the classic model of one teacher, one lesson and a 35-student classroom.
In addition, the study further revealed that the quality of education in Arua district, as in other rural districts, is adversely affected by a severe lack of resources and professional teachers, as well as high student-to-teacher ratios and large class sizes.
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Cathy is a technology teacher and student learning plan advisor at Edmonds Heights K-12 school in Edmonds, Washington.
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Checque was a four-year honors student, said his physics teacher Doug Knipple, but rather than go to college, he chose to go straight into the Navy.
Why not, for example, stipulate that future grants will only be made in states that permit student results to be linked to teacher evaluations--now barred by New York and California, among others--and that give kids the right to exit dreadful schools for better ones?
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