These small-scale experiments aim to give students more freedom to excel on their own initiative.
Give at-risk and low-performing students more money to bring with them to the public school of their choice.
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The proportion of learning disabled students among all disabled students more than doubled, from 22 percent in 1976-77 to 45 percent in 1996-97.
Some of these initiatives, such as Mission 10X, which is focused on making India's engineering students more employable in the information technology industry, clearly dovetail with Wipro's business interests.
John Deasy, superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District, said the new calendar lets students wrap up finals before the three-week winter break and gives high-school students more time to complete college applications.
The report also proposes giving students more choice in where they go to school and shifting the tax burden away from property taxes, perhaps by broadening the state sales tax to include services.
Therefore, they perform better, thus increasing the scores over time as more and more students take more and more tests.
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The New York Times said the cheating, over five years, involved more students and more educators than any recent cheating case in American public schools.
Part of the savings could then be used to give the top teachers a raise. ( In a 2008 survey funded by the Gates Foundation, 83 percent of teachers said they would be happy to teach more students for more pay.) The rest of the savings could go toward improving teacher support and evaluation systems, to help more teachers become great.
Translated into the classroom, productivity increases would mean more students per teacher, as well as more students per classroom, per school or university administrator, per football team, etc.
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However, the instructors are sometimes prompted by their students to put more material online, so students end up with more opportunities to use the Web sites in their studies, according to Pittinsky.
This, too, is no panacea, but it does make schools more driven by market forces (tuition fees), incentivizes them to pay more attention to students, and rewards success (or at least popularity amongst students) more than under current funding formulas.
One approach is to get more students in front of top teachers by identifying the top 25 percent of teachers and asking them to take on four or five more students.
"For struggling writers, cursive allows them to be more fluent and thus lets their ideas flow on the page more readily ... some students have more ideas in their heads than they can (print) on paper, " says McGrann.
For example, much research has shown that subject students retain more if seated in a classroom with others students who appear to be listening attentively.
Fox School of Business in Philadelphia is a large full-range business school with more than 6, 000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and more than 150 full-time faculty.
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Are there ways that businesses can help part-time workers to pursue higher education, perhaps by providing access to health benefits or by offering more predictable working hours so that would-be students can more easily schedule their classes?
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And no party is likely to allow universities to recruit lots more students, even though more young people than ever want to go, rather than sit out the downturn on the dole.
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In fact, India sends more students to study in this country than any other country -- this year alone more than 100, 000 students from India came here to America to study somewhere.
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Some of FinAid's tips for looking more financial aid-worthy include saving money in the parent's name rather than the child's, paying off consumer debt and enrolling multiple children in college, as the more students attending school, the more help given.
The theory originated in education, as a way of helping teachers and students communicate more effectively.
But they added that action is needed to ensure medical students act more honestly.
The truth is, few students use more than 30% of the power available to them.
On average, the fact that students need more time for learning has been chronicled.
Angst says the first survey of his students was more encouraging than he had expected.
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So why try to broadcast the same set of videos to 100, 000 students or more?
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That means students were more likely to have offers as they head toward graduation.
That hot 23-year-old grad students attract more suitors on Match.com than wheel-chair bound nursing home inhabitants?
University statistics indicate that graduate students teach more undergraduate classes than they used to.
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We need to make sure students spend more time on the task of learning.
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