As technology marches ever forwards the world itself is shrinking; students today can hold Skype conversations with friends in Japan or India as easily as they can speak to the person sitting at the next desk in class.
In shrinking students' lives to test scores, the opportunity for them to dream and achieve beyond the arbitrary measures of intelligence offered by standardized tests will be lost.
Lily Tomlin voiced the iconic teacher in the original 90s series, back when schools apparently didn't require a parent's signature before shrinking students down to the size of a red blood cell and sending them off to explore the inside of someone's body or whatever. .
Without the mill, the largest employers were in Star Lake: the school district, with its shrinking student body, and the struggling local hospital -- the smallest in the state, with 20 beds and an average of two patients a day.
The reserve pool stems from a change in the teachers' contract that ended seniority rights in school staffing decisions and the automatic transfer of teachers who had been cut because of school closings or shrinking student enrollment.
Despite a shrinking student body, St .Patrick became well known in recent years for producing a disproportionate number of Division I college players, several of whom went on to play in the N.B.A., including Samuel Dalembert of the Houston Rockets, Al Harrington of the Denver Nuggets and Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Since the resurgence of fighting in 1969, Principal David Russell has been concerned about the shrinking student population; the brighter children--generally those of more ambitious parents--have been moved to safer areas, but Russell believes that the school is a refuge from the reality of the streets.
Johnson said school officials will still have to deal with the structural problems created by a shrinking student population and deteriorating, unused school buildings.
Mr. Bashir is now battling high inflation, a shrinking economy, student protests and several simultaneous rebellions — in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State — as well as genocide charges related to the massacres several years ago in Darfur, and stiff American sanctions.
Bronner tells us that, while community colleges already have great faculty (contrary to popular belief), budgets and endowments across the country are shrinking as student populations grow.
Although language in the report specifically highlighted the crowded market for Ph.D. chemists, in interviews with Science Careers, members of the ACS commission downplayed the idea of shrinking graduate student enrollment, focusing instead on the need for departments to broaden the range of skills they teach so that there is less redundancy among Ph.D. graduates.
