Sentences with phrase «as academic failure»

There is now ample consensus among social scientists that certain risks (such as academic failure, early psychiatric problems, and language delays) are highly correlated with poor outcomes.

School - related problems such as academic failure, low educational aspirations, negative labeling, and trouble at school are key risk factors for gang joining among girls, and these may be more influential for them than for boys (Peterson, 2012; Thornberry, et al., 2003).

Not exact matches

Indeed, we suspect that the very distinction between theology, ethics and liturgy reflects the seminary's adoption of inappropriate academic models of compartmentalization and a failure to take seriously the liturgical life of congregations as central to our educative task.

Increasing amounts of academic studies show that in the population as a whole promiscuity increases, the absolute amount of condom failures increase, etc. etc. (cf. Professor Paton's The Economics of Secret Abortions and Emergency Birth Control, Faith July» 07).

The modern emphasis on ever - earlier independence and academics seems to inadvertently be sacrificing the very things they are designed to accomplish, and the modern view of parenting as a «competition» is setting the stage for stress, conflict, and failure.

He talks about how character is built through failure, especially for kids who are real successes as adolescents in the narrow realm of academics.

Described as «academic but down to earth,» Dr. Rowell addresses concerns about underweight, overweight, picky eating, food aversions, feeding therapy «failures,» and children who are hoarding or food - preoccupied.

The city school district is setting up programs as early as pre-kindergarten to try to ensure fewer students have the academic problems that lead to academic failure and dropping out.

Kids with «poor attendance,» «excessive tardiness,» «academic failure,» «apathy,» «social issues,» low motivation, and such «challenges to success» as pregnancy and poverty, it read.

Instead of assigning disciplinary consequences when students don't meet behavior expectations, why not deal them as we would deal with academic failures and missteps?

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

Some argue that early identification is fraught with errors; they fear incorrectly labeling a student as at risk for academic failure.

The RSD had been established in 2003 to manage «recovery» from academic failure, not from Hurricane Katrina, as the name is sometimes taken to imply, but had seized only five New Orleans schools before Katrina.

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.»

At New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA)-- a dual arts and academic curriculum — failure is taught as an important part of the journey toward success.

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;

They also fit into categories often highlighted as factors that can lead to academic failure.

Resulting in unprecedented success among students previously dismissed as lost causes and academic failures, the CREATE model has demonstrated that it is indeed possible to close the achievement gap, even in the most difficult cases.

reframe academic failure or struggle as an essential step in a learning process, rather than an indication of limited learning capacity

The constant comparisons of school academic performance and the grading of schools has presented the schools as failures and placed the blame on teachers.

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/test.myths.reality.htm Big Ideas in Beginning Reading Types of Reading Assessments An effective, comprehensive reading program includes reading assessments for four purposes: • Screening - Designed as a first step in identifying children who may be at high risk for delayed development or academic failure and in need of further diagnosis of their need for special services or additional reading instruction.

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — which Congress reauthorized last month through passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 — authorizes federal funding for programs to raise the achievement of students identified as being at risk of academic failure.

The Success Highways Resiliency Assessment Academic Risk Index ™ shows which students are at risk of failure as early as three years before warning signs appear.

Before the election David Cameron pledged to open 500 more over the next Parliament but high - profile failures, such as Durham Free School and Discovery New School, were both closed within an academic year.

Title I of ESEA provides funding to school divisions and schools for programs to raise the achievement of students identified as being at risk of academic failure.

«Districts and unions also need to work together to provide parents with more and better information about teacher effectiveness — if not individual ratings, then at least school - level statistics, as teachers are the most powerful school - based factor in student academic success or failure,» he said.

Charter school researcher Alison Consoletti (2011) reports that 1,036 charter schools (15 percent of the total number opened since the first school in 1992) have been closed for cause, including 42 percent for financial deficiencies often related to low student enrollment, 24 percent for mismanagement such as administrators» misuse of funds, and 19 percent for failure to meet student academic performance standards.

Emphasizing structure and organization helps remove roadblocks that prevent successful learning, such as slower processing speeds, inconsistent spelling and grammar, difficulty maintaining focus and concentration, and feelings of failure and anxiety resulting from past academic and social struggles.

The shift to adequacy has made ensuring there are adequate resources for all students - especially those with special needs such as students in special education, those at - risk of academic failure, and English Language Learners - is the focus of state funding systems.

8) Students Labeled as Failures are Forced Out of Classes: We know that many students who never needed Academic Intervention Services (AIS) in the past, are now receiving mandated AIS as a result of the failing scores.

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.

While noncompliance is certainly a critical concern and risk factor, the overall costs of a poorly planned and executed parent communication strategy result in much more impactful consequences: lost dollars that could be spent furthering success in the classroom and a failure to actively engage all students and parents in a way that serves as a foundation for achieving sustained and long term academic achievement.

A robust sense of academic self - efficacy typically results in more work as a response to the threat of failure.

The act's emphasis on test scores as the primary measure of school performance has narrowed the curriculum, and the one - size - fits - all accountability system has mislabeled schools as failures even if their students are demonstrating real academic growth.

Number Rockets is a small - group tutoring program for first graders who have been identified as at risk of academic failure.

Seeing that Pinellas tops the list of districts in Florida for its use of suspension, the academic failure of its schools (and specifically its black students) should not come as any surprise.

Failure to complete the five academic years, candidates may still qualify for SLFFT if the fifth year was half way completed as a teacher.

The failure of a country's academic and media institutions to deal with a serious crisis should not be taken lightly, as it points towards looming governmental and societal failure.

In saying «judges do understand the failure to disclose relevant adverse statistics — even if academics don't», I wrote quickly and did not express myself as clearly as I might have.

Having been so instrumental in the failures so far, Stern was the right choice of humpty - dumpty academic for interested parties to commission, as the report explains.

As ABA President, William Hubbard has united the legal, technology, academic, and business communities in an effort to remedy this market failure and improve the delivery of legal services to the most underserved populations in the United States.

The network works together as a catalyst for change — leveling the academic playing field for very young children at risk for school failure while also boosting the imaginations of key decision makers

Professor Prinz argues that the parenting - focused aspects of child maltreatment prevention can extend beyond the original goal, including the prevention of childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems; the reduction of risk for adverse adolescent outcomes (such as substance use, delinquency and academic failure); and parental engagement for school readiness.

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.»

Described as «academic but down to earth,» Dr. Rowell addresses concerns about underweight, overweight, picky eating, food aversions, feeding therapy «failures,» and children who are hoarding or food - preoccupied.

Child risk factors such as behavioral and mental health problems (overt and covert aggression, autism spectrum disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, criminality or delinquent behavior, depression, school failure, lack of social and academic skills, etc.); family and parental problems such as parental depression, substance use disorder, and criminality, or family violence and child maltreatment and sexual abuse.

Issues such as, depression, anxiety, and low self - worth often contribute to academic failure and can lead to dangerous and self destructive behavior.

Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.