Sentences with phrase «because of academic failure»

Fourteen percent of Michigan's charters are both low - performing and do little to improve student achievement, according to Stanford University's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes; while just one of the 11 charters shut down in 2015 - 2016 were closed because of academic failure, according to data from the Wolverine State's Department of Education.]

Parents and other community members — thanks to some local gadflies who began to get the message out — also began paying attention and, for the first time in memory, voted down a school budget in large part because of academic failures.

Not exact matches

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

Such information is important because the development of social competencies during middle childhood has been linked to adjustment to schooling and academic success, while the failure to develop such competencies can lead to problem behavior that interferes with success in school (Bennett et al. 2003; Carlson et al. 1999; Farrington 1989; Fors, Crepaz, and Hayes 1999; Malecki and Elliot 2002; McCord et al. 2000; Najaka, Gottfredson, and Wilson 2001; O'Donnell, Hawkins, and Abbott 1995; Trzesniewski et al. 2006; Wentzel 1993).»

«Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction took the first step Thursday toward withholding up to $ 175 million in federal funds from Milwaukee Public Schools because of the district's failure to meet yearly academic progress targets required under law.»

Without the agreement, Houston would likely be forced to close campuses or submit to a state takeover of the school board because of failure to improve academics at the schools.

At - risk children — poor children, children at risk of school failure because of behavioral, emotional or academic issues — benefit more from effective teachers and effective teaching than children who are not at risk (Hanushek et al. 2005).

For example, a student might be ineligible for federal student loans because of a failure to achieve satisfactory academic progress (a minimum of a 2.0 GPA).

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.

So most of their newly hired minority lawyers have relatively weak academic records that would have brought rejection had they been white -LSB-...] Many capable African - Americans experience frustration and failure because racial preferences thrust them into elite settings where they compete against whites with far better qualifications -LSB-...]

The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.