101. To create smaller classes in the lower grades, the schools must strip money from the upper grades, where victims of the past are struggling to catch up. 102. To compensate for the preparation gap, the university is instituting smaller classes as well as a mentoring system. 103. Those smaller class sizes will cost money, as will the more intensive professional development that the panel wants reading teachers to receive throughout their careers. 104. UT does offer a Gateway program of smaller classes for small-town athletes, but only for the short term. 105. What needs to be done is smaller classes and more direct service of students and parents. 106. When Nedd decided to enroll Patrick in the seventh grade at Hyde, she was seeking smaller classes, individualized attention, and more family involvement. 107. At the same time, they rejected a Democratic alternative to target funds for more teachers and smaller classes. 108. But the school is striving to improve with the help of smaller class sizes. 109. Clinton has pushed the idea of smaller class sizes and more teachers since he took office. 110. Clinton said a report by the Council of Great City Schools demonstrates that children learn more in smaller classes. |