Sentences with phrase «culture of low expectations»

It's that toxic culture of low expectations — that lack of ambition for every child — which has held this country back.

The line from the study that jumps off the page is that the findings suggest «a pervasive culture of low expectations for teacher development and performance.»

We also know that these attitudes — which help foster cultures of low expectations in dropout factories, failure mills and mediocrity warehouses — are manifested every day.

School leaders should heed TNTP's recommendations, which would make for a good start toward changing that «pervasive culture of low expectations.»

Riley and others also ignore another culprit: Low - quality teachers and lackluster school leaders — or, «the other knuckleheads, as Fordham Institute scholar Peter Meyer calls them — who perpetuate cultures of low expectations by failing in reading instruction and failing to properly manage classrooms.

As pointed out in this week's Dropout Nation Podcast on school leadership, principals and superintendents foster cultures of low expectations not only make it difficult for high - quality teachers and leaders to do their jobs, their neglect and malpractice gives license to laggards and the criminally abusive in schools to do the same.

But isn't the greatest disadvantage of all being written off by those so in hock to a culture of low expectations that they have forgotten what it's like to be ambitious, to want to transcend your background, to overcome circumstance and succeed on your own terms?

In facing the challenges of leading a change of long established norms and a culture of low expectations Paez is sustained by a sense of duty to pay it forward and give students a fair chance to grow and develop as thinkers and productive members of society.

It upends the stasis that pervades so many urban districts: the veto power that teachers unions and other adult interests hold over all decisions; the culture of low expectations that blames social factors (and the parents themselves) for poor student achievement; the slow pace of reform that subjects yet another generation of students to failure while the system struggles to get its act together.

«Ultimately, it is about standing up and saying this culture of low expectations that has been there for years in certain parts of the country has to end.

They have sustained a culture of low expectations on both sides of the teacher's desk.

He concluded: «We are committed to overturning a culture of low expectations that for too long discouraged capable pupils, predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds, from studying the core academic subjects that open doors to their future.»

On these endeavors the enemy has been the culture of low expectations.

The state is now engaged in systemic reform, which seeks to change the culture of low expectations in state, to prepare all students with rigorous coursework at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.

We are committed to overturning a culture of low expectations that for too long discouraged capable pupils, predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds, from studying the core academic subjects that open doors to their future.

And as Editor RiShawn Biddle made clear last week, the single - biggest flaw in the waiver gambit lies in how the administration has allowed states to lower expectations for districts and schools, allowing for cultures of low expectations to denigrate the futures of poor and minority children.

Ofsted, in a report published Wednesday, said a culture of low expectations had become acceptable across the academy and leaders, including governors, have failed to halt the decline.

The charter school movement is defying a culture of low expectations and is effectively proving to be our most promising path to genuine reform of our system of public education.

«These people represent the powerful and badly misguided lobby who are responsible for the devaluation of exams and the culture of low expectations in state schools,» he said.

It will challenge a culture of low expectations and low achievement in the area.»

«This lack of trust has contributed to a culture of low expectations.»

But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and minority kids) that plagues American public education even when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.