Sentences with phrase «chronic school failure»

It's clear that we need a new type of system for urban public education, one that is able to respond nimbly to great school success, chronic school failure, and everything in between.

DOE should issue firm guidance that states must not evade clear congressional intent by allowing weak - kneed responses to chronic school failure.

Not exact matches

Nor is chronic absenteeism just a high school problem in Washington's impoverished neighborhoods; even many elementary students are absent for weeks, putting them on a path to failure.

We believe that unprecedented reductions in school failure, economic insecurity, criminal behavior, and chronic disease can be produced through a new way of thinking fueled by 21st century science; a new way of working that embraces creative risk - taking; and a new type of leadership across multiple fields that is driven by constructive dissatisfaction with modest, incremental change.

Leveraging the power of afterschool programs to reduce chronic absence is especially important now given the economic challenges facing communities and schools and the growing number of students at risk of academic failure and dropping out.

What's different here is that the definition of «extraordinary» is widening, not just to cover the kinds of emergencies caused by bankruptcy or mayhem, but also to include a school's chronic failure to educate its pupils.

In partnership with local school districts, we provide daily school - based interventions to students in grades K — 12 to address chronic absenteeism, academic failure, behavioral issues, social service needs and more.

Chronic early school absence is associated with school failure.

Chronic plan failure has occurred in a number of school organizations after they have expended millions of dollars on preparedness only to have plans with simple gaps that should have been identified.

These school emergency preparedness assessments are one of the most effective ways to identify significant gaps in crisis planning before an incident reveals them with chronic plan failure.

The school, which historically struggled academically, in recent years has been closed by the state for chronic failure, and was rebranded and renamed.

If we keep this up, within just a few years, chronic failure in schools will have real potential to be a thing of the past.

There is robust evidence that chronic absence puts children at risk of school failure.

But the government said by using a value - added measure of pupil performance, both current performance and improvement over time, will give schools and groups «time to improve while reacting in time to avoid chronic failure that irredeemably damages any child's education».

Andrew H. Sparkes, «Diagnosis & Management of Chronic Renal Failure» (New Market, UK: 2006) University of Washington School of Veterinary Medicine

educational neglect Involves the failure of a parent or caregiver to enroll a child of mandatory school age in school or provide appropriate homeschooling or needed special education training, thus allowing the child or youth to engage in chronic truancy.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

Males on this chronic physical aggression (CPA) trajectory tend to grow - up in adverse family environments [4], [7]--[9], have lower cognitive abilities [10], tend to be rejected by their peers from early childhood onwards [11] and have numerous physical, mental and social problems such as accidents, hyperactivity, school failure, substance abuse and unemployment [4], [5], [10], [12]--[14].

Longitudinal research indicates that young children who develop disruptive behaviour problems are at an elevated risk for a host of negative outcomes including chronic aggression and conduct problems, substance abuse, poor emotion regulation, school failure, peer problems and delinquency.4, 5 Early - appearing externalizing behaviours can disrupt relationships with parents and peers, initiating processes that can maintain or exacerbate children's behavioural problems.6 Therefore, very early intervention (e.g., in day care, preschool, or kindergarten) can be important in interrupting the potential path to chronic aggression in children who display aggressive behaviour or who are at risk for developing aggressive behaviour.

By definition, students who are at - risk for school failure, or display a chronic pattern of inappropriate behavior do not respond to universal interventions (5 % to 15 %).

Other variables measured were: sex, number of siblings, parental occupation, single - parent home, school failure, socioeconomic level, chronic somatic ailments and use of mental health services.