Sentences with phrase «challenges affecting schools»

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And that in turn affects how they approach challenges and succeed in early elementary school.

By supporting SportStars efforts, you support sports, schools, youth and coaches in your community «'' and in all areas affected by budget needs and other challenges.

But for families affected by special needs, the new school year has added challenges and concerns.

Mr. Cuomo is facing particular pressure to burnish his progressive credentials: The actress and education advocate Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging him for the Democratic nomination for governor, has blasted him for what she called his «massive disinvestment» in schools and in other areas that affect black and Hispanic residents.

Lead author Dr Ford Hickson from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said: «Mental illness is one of the biggest health challenges facing the world today and can affect people from all walks of life.

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

With the distance between schools and small classroom size, we face many of the same challenges that affect rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.

We provide here some of our creative solutions to Wildwood's complex challenges, and how these solutions have affected learning and school culture.

We have begun to understand that bullying affects all levels of society; it is, in a very real sense, everybody's problem, Sandra Craig, manager of The National Centre Against Bullying, reports on bullying at the challenges for Australian schools.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

With many schools receiving funding to have their old school buildings rebuilt, the Society of British and International Design examines whether the same desired affect can be created with refurbishments, and discusses the key challenges

[15] It is unclear how complying with the reform would have affected students in other schools with greater implementation challenges.

A key challenge in drawing lessons from foreign studies is that there are many economic and cultural factors that also affect student achievement, besides the design of the school system itself.

The key challenge facing empirical study of how school choice affects information acquisition has been a lack of systematic data.

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Many of them entered school academically behind and were affected by emotional and social development challenges.»

The Master of Education (ME) in School Counseling degree is for students who are aspiring to become school counselors in K - 12 settings and seek to explore the challenges affecting students and schools in the 21st ceSchool Counseling degree is for students who are aspiring to become school counselors in K - 12 settings and seek to explore the challenges affecting students and schools in the 21st ceschool counselors in K - 12 settings and seek to explore the challenges affecting students and schools in the 21st century.

Ian Cleland (pictured right), chief executive of ATT, said schools, academies and multi-academy trusts across the country are all being affected by «significant financial challenges».

Poverty greatly affects student learning and high concentrations of poverty in schools presents unique challenges.

Cleland, in a statement sent to Schools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being afSchools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being afschools, academies and multi-academy trusts being affected.

Mapping College Readiness uses New America's ATLAS map tool to present policies that affect how well each state prepares students to meet the challenges of college and career, along with how well states have leveraged policy to build a bridge between high school and higher education.

He said schools in the most challenging circumstances and the most disadvantaged children would be worst affected.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

As a product of the urban, local public school system in Atlanta, Georgia, Artesius has first hand experience with the academic disparities and challenges that affect our youth.

As the Carnegie Council Task Force on Education of Young Adolescents (1989) stressed, «While school systems are not responsible for meeting every need of their students, when the need directly affects learning, the school must meet the challenge.»

The NUT recognises that we still have a long way to go to achieve equality for women and women teachers — whether that be through tackling the gender pay gap in schools or challenging the routine sexism that affects women teachers in the classroom and many young women students and girls too.

These factors include the implicit biases of teachers and school administrators and how these biases affect their perceptions of challenging behaviors; the lack of support and resources for teachers; and the effect of teacher - student relationships.

CCSA is offering assistance, resources, and connections to immigration organizations to charter schools affected by ongoing challenges families may face related to immigration.

Originally seen as a challenge to teacher seniority, Reed vs. California was filed in 2009 by the ACLU on behalf of students at three low - income schools against the state and the LA Unified school district, alleging that widespread seniority - based layoffs enacted during the budget crisis of 2008 — 2009 disproportionately affected low income and minority students, depriving them of equal access to a quality education.

Not knowing how long the hurricane's damage will affect students is one challenging aspect for schools» post-disaster management.

Seton Catholic Schools is the solution to the educational and community challenges affecting our neighborhoods.

School districts included trauma, mental health issues, social media (including bullying and other conflicts), immigration status, gang involvement, drug use by students or parents, lack of parental guidance and support, and situational barriers like transportation, jobs, and responsibilities at home among the many challenges that affect student behavior or attendance and can lead to discipline issues.

Mr Lightman, head of the ASCL head teachers» union, said schools in challenging areas were finding it «incredibly hard» to find teachers in some shortage subjects, particularly affecting schools in some parts of the North.

Charter Schools» Discipline Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public sSchools» Discipline Policies Face Scrutiny As the number of charter schools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public sschools continues to grow, one facet of their autonomy — the ability to set and enforce independent disciplinary standards — has raised difficult questions about whether those schools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public sschools are pushing out students who pose behavior or academic challenges and how their policies affect regular public schoolsschools.

School segregation isolates many students of color in neighborhoods that battle entrenched poverty — where housing remains inadequate and the unemployment rate is considerably higher than that of more affluent communities29 — and these challenges affect student academic success.

This program gets an on - the - ground look at how the stimulus is affecting some of the nation's most challenged schools.

Title I schools face particular challenges that affect academic performance, including high rates of student mobility and large proportions of English language learners.

Anthony Bryk, Eric Camburn, and Karen Seashore Louis, «Professional Community in Chicago Elementary Schools: Facilitating Factors and Organizational Consequences,» Educational Administration Quarterly 35, no. 5 (1999): 751 — 781; Andrew Calkins, William Guenther, Grace Belfiore, and Dave Lash, The Turnaround Challenge: Why America's Best Opportunity to Dramatically Improve Student Achievement Lies in Our Worst - Performing Schools (Boston: Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, 2007); Yvonne L. Goddard, Roger D. Goddard, and Megan Tschannen - Moran, «A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Teacher Collaboration for School Improvement and Student Achievement in Public Elementary Schools,» Teachers College Record 109, no. 4 (2007): 877 — 896; Karen Seashore Louis and Helen M. Marks, «Does Professional Community Affect the Classroom?

Each school could have a profile describing it — its strengths and challenges — so it can be part of a consortium of other like schools, all working together to affect meaningful change — all teacher / administration / expert led, of course.

The issue broke into the open at the start of the school year when St Olave's attempted to illegally exclude 16 pupils from year 13, but then backed down after a legal challenge from families of the pupils affected.

Her dissertation, which was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, examines how experiencing increased pressure during challenging mathematics instruction affects middle school students» learning, interest and motivation.

Explorations regarding this question require a collective effort of continued critical thought and practice, while challenging hostile policies that negatively affect the family unit, as well as teaching and learning in schools.

«These are not issues which affect us but for schools in challenging circumstances, the clarity will be useful,» he told BBC News.

The district remains committed, however, to working on challenges and issues that affect retention and «that we know are real, such as school culture and our ability to embrace diversity,» says Qazilbash.

This affects student achievement and attrition because students are less inclined to remain at a challenging school when there is not a strong community of teachers to support them, ones that have worked at the schools for a long time.

Apart from the obvious challenges of playing a Bullet Hell shooter, Sine Mora challenged players with an ever - present countdown timer similar to old - school arcade racing games; players can only affect their remaining time through power - ups and a cooldown - based ability to temporarily slow time.

«Global warming may profoundly affect animals, plants, and coastal communities around the world,» von Weizsäcker added, «and Bren School researchers have been at the forefront in terms of clarifying the challenges and presenting attractive responses to them.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

Building a Sustainable Future: Analysis of the Fiscal Resources Supporting Children From Birth Through Age 8 in Michigan Silloway, Bhat, & Connors - Tadros (2010) Finance Project W.K. Kellogg Foundation View Abstract and Download Examines Federal, State, and private expenditures supporting children and their families in fiscal year 2010, particularly children who are transitioning from the early childhood system to school, and identifies how recent economic challenges have affected the early childhood system in Michigan.