Sentences with phrase «academic failure by»

Mr. Martin and the executives on the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club, who blame the teachers union for contributing to academic failure by imposing restrictions on teachers and administrators alike, used the threat of federal sanctions to pressure the city to put many schools into private hands, outside union jurisdiction.

Some have argued that we should address widespread academic failure by making the school day longer or the school year longer.

Not exact matches

The group also challenged her to take the leap — at the risk of possible failure — by enrolling in one course to test and toughen flabby academic muscles.

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»

How do we break the mindset that the Ph.D. is the qualification for an academic career, and that if a postdoc appointment is not followed by the offer of a tenured faculty post that this represents some sort of failure?

«The «culture of testing» has harmed our students physically and intellectually,» said Zhang, adding that suicides have become common among students worn down by fears of academic failure.

Disagreement over the governance of Newark schools goes back more than two decades; the state took over the district in 1995 after documenting years of academic failure, unsafe buildings, corruption, and lavish spending by elected school board members.

Indeed, the strongest argument in favor of reading by the end of kindergarten and Common Core's vision for early literacy is simply to ensure that children — especially the disadvantaged among them — don't get sucked into the vortex of academic distress associated with early reading failure.

Early reading success or failure is highly predictive of a child's academic trajectory: one out of six kids who are not reading proficiently by third grade will not graduate from high school on time.

«We know by looking at the failure rates in kindergarten and first grade that many of these students are coming from social environments that haven't adequately prepared them for academic success,» he adds.

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

Exhibit maladaptive attributions by attributing academic success to external and uncontrollable factors such as task ease or teacher assistance, but academic failure to internal yet uncontrollable factors such as limited aptitude;

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Teachers who work with youth at high risk of academic failure need to feel supported and need to have an avenue by which they continue to develop skills, techniques, and learn about innovative strategies.

Teachers who work with youth at high risk of academic failure need to feel supported and have an avenue by which they can continue to develop skills, techniques, and learn about innovative strategies.

Conferencing with teachers, school leaders, other instructional personnel, and external educational agencies to aid in the development of robust, appropriate, educational programming and supports to students who are at risk of failure, not meeting school academic goals, and / or currently being supported by a formal IEP

Conferring with teachers, school leaders, and other instructional personnel, external educational agencies, to aid in the development of robust, appropriate, educational programming and supports to students who are at - risk of failure, not meeting school academic goals, and / or currently being supported by a formal IEP.

Wendy Lecker's column successfully lays out the historical context and the real issues surrounding our nation's failure to close the academic achievement gap, and by doing so, she lays bare the lies and deceit being perpetrated by the education reform industry.

But the blight caused by academic selection at 11 is not just economic the damage done to» 11 + failures» can last throughout life, affecting self - worth, ambition and confidence.

After months of silence and despite the overwhelming fact that there is no federal or state law that allows the government or school districts to punish children (or parents) who opt their children out of the Common Core Testing Scam, Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education incredibly instructed school superintendents to continue their unethical and immoral harassment of parents who are seeking to protect their children by opting them out of the Common Core SBAC Tests — A test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 Connecticut public school students are deemed failures and that more than 90 percent of special education students and English Language Learners have «fail» attached to their academic records.

For nearly 30 years, the Center for Schools and Communities (CSC) has built capacity in professionals, strengthened organizational systems and transformed lives by reducing academic barriers that exist for students who are at - risk for educational failure.

Or at least it should have been brought to his attention by his academic advisors, co-authors, or the paper's reviewers (another failure of the highly acclaimed peer - review process).

According to the attorney general's office, an investigation began last year that showed the school's current financial problems were rooted in the failure of its 2006 plan to finance a new academic building by taking a $ 175 million mortgage on other property and investing and losing $ 35 million in stocks.

The entire approach to global warming being taken by the UN, virtually all politicians, virtually all academics and self - identified climate experts, and virtually all environmental groups is doomed to failure.

While the issue has only recently become acute, it has become acute because of accumulating failure during the AR5 assessment process, including errors and misrepresentations by IPCC in the assessments sent out for external review; the almost total failure of the academic climate community to address the discrepancy; gatekeeping by fellow - traveling journal editors that suppressed criticism of the defects in the limited academic literature on the topic.

Whatever the ultimate scientific explanation for the pause and its implications for the apparent discrepancy between models and observations, policy - makers must be feeling very letdown by the failure of IPCC and its contributing academic community to adequately address an issue that is critical to them and to the public.

LST stands by the assertion that dozens of ABA - approved law schools know that they have admitted large numbers of students who, based on their low LSAT scores, coupled with commensurately low undergraduate GPAs, are at high risk of academic failure or failing the bar.

Though it is difficult to say what effect the absence of any one man's father had on him beyond what he tells you and what could be assumed by his current behaviors, studies do show that boys who were raised without fathers are at greater risk for academic - career failure and social maladjustment than those who are raised in two parent households.

The above diagram, taken from Dr. Gottman's The Science of Trust, displays his findings on the dynamics of loyalty and betrayal and their deep role in predicting the success or failure of our most intimate relationships.Acclaimed by professors and scientists as an «encyclopedic volume» with «authoritative and profound insights into the inner workings of relationships,» the book was nonetheless meant for «the academic, the researcher, the clinician... the game theorist and the mathematician.»

[95] However, there has been much commentary by Indigenous leaders and academics on the failure of the native title process to adequately recognise and protect traditional law and custom.

Although a sensitive teacher may be able to adapt the classroom to allow an able child with ADHD to succeed, more frequently the child experiences academic failure, rejection by peers, and low self esteem (fig 2).