Sentence examples for shrinking class from inspiring English sources

Get a ringer 70 percent of the time, and you are in a shrinking class of world-class pitchers.

Mr. Cheney said on CBS's "Face the Nation" program that he would prefer Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator, to Mr. Powell, a member of the shrinking class of moderate Republicans, as spokesman for his party.

IN these times of alarming attrition in the New York City Police Department, with mounting retirements and resignations and a shrinking class of new recruits, where best to turn than John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University campus dedicated to the study of criminal justice, law enforcement and public safety?

Agricultural lecturer Bukar Mustapha can testify to shrinking class sizes.

Teny M. Shapiro, an economist at Santa Clara University, estimates that a one-hour change produces the same benefit as shrinking class size by one-third or replacing a teacher in the 50th percentile of effectiveness with one in the 84th percentile.

Our results indicate that some improvement in accuracy can be had by shrinking class centroids, for which we have proposed a novel procedure.

We've shrunk class sizes, implemented national standards, and amped up testing.

It would spend the extra revenue on health (it promises 2,000 long-term care beds) and education (it would shrink class sizes and freeze university tuition fees).

"I think it's really defeatist to say that we can't shrink class size and we can't hire more teachers," he said.

Millions of public school students across the nation are seeing their class sizes swell because of budget cuts and teacher layoffs, undermining a decades-long push by parents, administrators and policy makers to shrink class sizes.

The governor has opposed some of the categories in the past, like one intended to raise urban teachers' salaries, and others that are part of Mr. Silver's pet program to provide prekindergarten classes, and to shrink class sizes.