Sentences with phrase «u.s. educational problems»

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In this rough - draft article, she argues that the scientific labor market is broken, that the U.S. educational system actually produces too many qualified researchers for too few positions, and that a perverse funding structure perpetuates the problem, among other points.

The U.S. and U.K. are chillingly similar in that their biggest problem is the extent of educational inequality that both countries face.

The problem to be solved in their eyes is not why increasing federal and state funds targeted to low - performing schools and students over 50 years has been generally ineffective, but how our educational institutions for K - 12 can address low achievement despite the fact that the various education interventions, strategies, policies, and regulations that policy makers in the U.S. Department of Education have imposed have mostly failed to move the needle.

In a post entitled, «U.S. has the world's most educated workforce — but students face unparalleled levels of poverty, inequity and violence,» Jonathan Kantrowitz has written an extraordinary and profound piece about the real problems that are causing the growing educational achievement gap in the United States.

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

«Bullying behavior is a social, educational, and health problem that affects many children and adolescents in Rhode Island and the U.S. Bullying behavior has a negative impact on all involved, including the victim, the perpetrator, and bystanders,» according to Katherine Chu, of Kids Count.