Sentences with phrase «cheated out of their education»

And while it's an open secret in many districts, critics say credit recovery allows young people to cheat themselves out of an education while boosting a school district's graduation rate.

Former California Virtual Academy (CAVA) employee Jan Cox Golovich left her job as an online high school teacher a year ago, when she decided the students she was teaching were being cheated out of an education.

Former California Virtual Academy (CAVA) employee Jan Cox Golovich left her job as an online high school teacher nearly two years ago when she decided the students she was teaching were being cheated out of an education.

Jan Cox Golovich quit her job as an online high school teacher at CAVA two years ago, having concluded that her students were being cheated out of an education.

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The rash of phony transcripts and academic cheating spells out the fact that athletics are now an abomination to the ideals of higher education.

That's not just a number — that's 250,000 children who have been cheated out of the future they deserve by a broken education system.

In another nationwide study, nine out of ten high school teachers surveyed by the American School Board Journal (ASBJ) and the Education Writers Association acknowledged that cheating is a problem in their school.

That teacher told Education World that when he catches students cheating and brings it to their parents» attention, about two out of three parents support him.

The anti-Klein legions will no doubt pounce on the comptroller's decision as vindication of their criticisms of the Klein reforms — just as the state's new commissioner of education, John King, must be tearing his hair out over another Gotham misstep (did someone say cheating?)

The American education system has been cheating children out of a quality education for years.

While some see that as an advantage, the fact that there are no curricular standards means that some schools can cheat students out of receiving high quality educations that prepare them for college or careers.

I couldn't be a part of the system and watch kids get cheated out of appropriate education.

Instead, testing misuses must end because they cheat the public out of accurate data about public school quality at the same time they cheat many students out of a high - quality education.»

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

Another reason for keeping pay for performance arrangements out of education is that they have high potential for encouraging people to «game the system» as evidenced by standardized test cheating scandals that are a direct result of pay for performance educational policies.