This would mark a drastic reduction in teachers' hours.
With a drastic shortage of teachers in areas like science and math, the New York City school system is one of the latest converts to programs like the one at Lehman that short-circuit traditional approaches to teacher education, which typically take two to four years before a student is certified as ready to teach.
For chronically failing schools like these, the No Child Left Behind law, now up for renewal in Congress, prescribes drastic measures: firing teachers and principals, shutting schools and turning them over to a private firm, a charter operator or the state itself, or a major overhaul in governance.
Experts told The Times there was a critical shortfall of an estimated 5,500 maths teachers across England, causing head teachers to take drastic action before their students return next month.
Thus, we believe that soft target training of a small DNN student can be a very effective method for parameter reduction, even when the reduction in parameters is drastic, as long as the teacher network is very accurate and the amount of untranscribed data is large.
In his first year, K-12 schools saw drastic cuts that led to teacher layoffs.
At a time when the district had been through years of drastic budget cuts and brutal teacher layoffs, Apple charged L.A. more per device than other districts had paid.
George Osborne's abolition of national pay bargaining for teachers is a drastic policy.
Instead of the Bush administration's formula, Thomas D. Watkins Jr., the state superintendent, will try something less drastic: dispatching coaches to advise teachers and principals, importing new curriculums and monitoring school progress.
Pathologizing the system as a whole, reformers insist on drastic reorganization, on drastic methods of teacher accountability.
