Sentences with phrase «deeply troubled»

A lawsuit has split a South Georgia town between supporters of a local church and those who are deeply troubled by allegations of child sexual abuse involving church members.

And now he has taken the reins of the much smaller, but deeply troubled Recovery School District in New Orleans.

From Dr. Vickie L. Markavitch, Superintendent of Oakland Schools: I am deeply troubled by the education budgets coming out of Lansing.

I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.

So the creation of the Recovery School District took an already deeply troubled system and cleaved off the worst - performing schools.

It was a challenging, thought provoking and inspiring lecture, but one which left me even more deeply troubled about the direction and pace of travel taken by the English education system — a direction and pace which is clearly unpopular with the majority of teachers and may contribute to their current exodus from the classroom.

«I'm deeply troubled by the transformation of teaching from a complex profession requiring nuanced judgment to the performance of certain behaviors that can be ticked off on a checklist.

As I traveled the state, I found many who were deeply troubled with charter practices but were hesitant to go on the record for fear of political or social retribution.

In a piece published yesterday in Education Week, Danielson writes, «I'm deeply troubled by the transformation of teaching from a complex profession requiring nuanced judgment to the performance of certain behaviors that can be ticked off on a checklist.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

In Tennessee, the statewide teachers» union has made plain that it's deeply troubled by several aspects of Gov. Bredesen's proposals, especially the idea of mandating that test scores be tied to teacher evaluations.

The questions are likely to be revisited this year with particular fervor as most Americans are deeply troubled about the moral state of the union and the character of the young.

The story of New Orleans» success entails two parts: a disaster that created room to reinvent a deeply troubled urban school system and an energetic commitment to seize that opportunity.

At a large high school like Jamaica, the demands of the school day make it nearly impossible to give these deeply troubled kids the kind of individual attention and support they need.

In a state with deeply troubled urban districts — Newark, Paterson, Asbury Park — Camden's stands apart for its calamitous results.

I spoke with my students about Mary Beth Hertz's Edutopia post «Battling Fake News in the Classroom,» and I sensed that many of my students, while skilled at what Hertz fittingly calls «crap detection,» were still deeply troubled by what they characterized as a growing public aversion to the truth.

Her testimony — and that of the other children — provided spectators in the packed hearing room with a dramatic portrait of an age group said to be deeply troubled by living under the threat of nuclear destruction.

In it, he chronicles the efforts of Green Dot Public Schools and its charismatic leader, Steve Barr, to transform South Central Los Angeles's deeply troubled Locke High School.

It's small and deeply troubled, is a foundation darling, has creative new leadership, and is pursuing the popular academic ideas of the day.

Since the school does not need to pierce the self - delusion of deeply troubled adolescents, as Hyde does, character education is more directly linked to intellectual development.

I was deeply troubled by this wrong - headed and frankly racialized assumption.

Paramount has released a first look at Alex Garland's «Annihilation,» in which Oscar Isaac's character is deeply troubled until the scene ends in a bloody blackout.

As ever, «Mr. Turner» balances out a refreshing sense of humor (here, mostly in the form of the bellowing Spall and his many variations on the grunt) with an affecting story of a deeply troubled soul; a man whose relationship with his father, his colleagues, and his different kinds of families all suffered due to his inability to fully express himself.

Pattinson's Connie Nikas might be the filthiest of the lot — a deeply troubled, dangerously impetuous blue - collar criminal who appears to have snapped the needle off his moral compass and stuck it into his arm.

Lucky for him, he has a door in his fabulous apartment which can take deeply troubled people who enter into the realm and have them forget the sources of their misery, but somehow he resists checking it out.

Manchester by the Sea Directed by Kenneth Lonergan USA, 2016, 137m Casey Affleck is formidable as the volatile, deeply troubled Lee Chandler, a Boston - based handyman called back to his hometown on the Massachusetts North Shore after the sudden death of his brother, Joe (Kyle Chandler), who has left behind a teenage son (Lucas Hedges).

Cabral and Sutcliffe's subject is Shariff, a charismatic but deeply troubled informant who has played the closer in a couple of high - profile sting operations of alleged would - be domestic terrorists.

Craig Gillespie's rollicking retelling of infamous figure skater Tonya Harding's rise and fall might take several dramatic liberties (peep the new trailer for a bloody - faced Margot Robbie mugging for the camera in one shot while brandishing a shotgun in pursuit of Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, in another), but, at its core, I, Tonya is a film rooted in the rich, real - life story of a deeply troubled athlete fighting for her place in the world.

Perhaps the film that officially marked M. Night Shyamalan «s real comeback to the thriller genre, Split features James McAvoy as Kevin, a deeply troubled man with 23 personalities who begins to fall apart when a new entity struggles to break through.

At a critical moment in the film, Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis, uncannily embodying the physicality and spirit of this great and deeply troubled man in a truly great performance) must make a choice between ending the Civil War in a week or allowing 10 more days of potential bloodshed so that the House can vote upon the amendment — a vote he has not yet secured.

were character studies of unconventional, deeply troubled protagonists.

Branagh, a veteran actor and director of Shakespearean films, breaths as much gravitas into the movie as it has room for, establishing a well - defined and deeply troubled father - son - brother dynamic between Thor, Odin, and Loki that would make the Bard proud, and balancing it with just enough humor.

It doesn't hurt that the film was written by Robert Siegel, whose screenplays for The Wrestler and Big Fan were character studies of unconventional, deeply troubled protagonists.

Almost unrecognizable beneath a bushy beard and delivering his lines in heavily accented English, Carrey turns in strong and haunting work as Tadek, a deeply troubled veteran Polish detective who seems to be on the OCD spectrum.

Middle - aged journalist Massimo (Valerio Mastandrea) remains deeply troubled by the mysterious death of his mother when he was aged just nine.

Based on the novels of Edward St Aubyn, Showtimes 5 - episode limited series follows the exploits of a wealthy and deeply troubled Englishman (Cumberbatch), as he battles his demons and overcomes addiction.

Leigh, together with his actors, cinematographer Dick Pope and composer Gary Yershon, takes us on a journey into the very ether of an artist's soul, who (much like most artists) is a deeply troubled human being.

The deeply troubled characters are what make the novel exciting.

Certainly there's some juicy stuff here: the story revolves around Jung's tempestuous relationship with Sabina Spielrein, a deeply troubled young medical student who began as his patient, became his mistress, blackmailed him into referring her to Freud as a patient, and ultimately distinguished herself as a psychoanalytic theorist of some note.

Soronpfrbs sounds sometimes like Interpol, who sounded a lot like Joy Division, itself led by a deeply troubled young man with undeniable creative depth.

Also incredible is the great Andrea Riseborough as Dee, Paul and Marie's deeply troubled daughter.

The result of deeply, deeply troubled production that David Fincher has all but washed his hands of, but one that some people still rate as a flawed masterpiece.

According to Deadline, Teague will portray Sam Lesser, a deeply troubled adolescent who murders the father of the Locke children.

Thornton does well in his portrayal of the retarded and deeply troubled man, Karl.

A transfixing James McAvoy is Kevin, a deeply troubled man harboring 23 distinct personalities and some increasingly chilling behavior.

Perhaps a different leading man would have helped, and though Gere gives what he can, he just doesn't have the acting prowess to make us care deeply for what should obviously be a sympathetic, deeply troubled and lonely man.

In this atmosphere, Jean Renoir, anticipating war and deeply troubled by the mood he felt around him, thought he might best interpret that state of mind by creating a story in the spirit of French comic theater, from Marivaux to Musset, a tradition in which the force that sets every character in motion is love and the characters have no other occupation to interfere with this pursuit.

Yet their muscular performances are ultimately undermined by the film's preoccupation with Hardy, who relishes another opportunity to demonstrate the brooding intensity that's made him Hollywood's go - to guy when it comes to playing deeply troubled protagonists.

The documentary is an in - depth look at the life of the beloved and deeply troubled icon, Whitney Houston.

Senua is a deeply troubled woman wracked with guilt from her past and desperate for redemption in the present; she suffers psychosis - induced trauma which plagues her mind with voices and disconnects her from reality with terrifying hallucinations and flashbacks.