Racial segregation produces achievement gaps between white and African American schoolchildren because it concentrates students with the most serious social and economic
challenges in single classrooms and schools.
Not exact matches
Based on over 10 years of work
in the field and over 20 case studies from
Challenge Success schools, Overloaded and Underprepared serves as a guide for change, offering practical solutions that can be implemented
in a
single classroom or on a school - wide scale.
Transmedia storytelling — telling a
single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with
challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool
in the
classroom, especially
in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.
As
challenging as it can be to work with a range of abilities and interests
in a
single classroom, it is necessary to maintain high expectations for each learner.
And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough
challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a
single classroom of students every day.
Classroom - level data presents some privacy
challenges because of the small number of students involved, particularly if disaggregated data (for example, the performance of an
single racial group
in a
classroom that has only one or two members of that group).
They have not become any less complex or any less pressing, and as much as some policy makers would like to discover a
single solution that can help all students, or address the myriad of
challenges teachers have to manage
in classrooms across the country, such «silver bullets» remain elusive.
I also feel there are SEVERAL mentally
challenged children who are immersed
in with the regular
classrooms that cause great disruptions
in the class as I have witnessed
in one of my children's classes there is a student who has not finished a
single homework assignment this year does not stay
in their seat talks and wants attention and disrupts the class taking away valuable time fro the students.