However, it adds a lack of government investment in some countries means parents often have to foot the bill for these resources - creating
an additional barrier to learning for the poorest students.
«These findings confirm the unacceptable trend of black students, especially boys, and students with disabilities being subject to disciplinary practices that exclude them from classroom instruction, thereby creating
additional barriers to their learning.
Not exact matches
Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used
to celebrate
learning, identify strengths, needs,
barriers to learning and allow teachers
to make informed and objective judgements about
learning; Focusing teachers» and schools» attention on the need for phonics
to be taught explicitly and systematically
to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required
to develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with
learning difficulties or [those who] need
additional instruction.
«It's not about substituting and using programing just for remediation or just
to express a
learning product that we could have done in writing,» says
Barrier, «but it's
to be able
to give students
additional ways
to express their
learning,
to go out and find information,
to learn how
to pull that together,
to be able
to use their own voice in making a product that will show what they've
learned.
Currently, our system does not guarantee access
to student supports that are critical
to many students» academic success — including support staff like counselors, school social workers or nurses, targeted strategies
to improve school climate and address non-academic
barriers to learning, and programming like
additional tutoring.
Other high - performing / high - poverty schools provide
additional protective factors, such as restructuring into small
learning communities and removing economic
barriers to participation in various extracurricular activities.