Sentences with phrase «detriment of students»

Freedhoff does a great job of showing how the seemingly benign messaging of these educational materials actually serves the food industry well — to the ultimate detriment of students.

Public employee unions, which are overwhelming supporters of liberal groups and Democrats, would be strengthened under Demos's plan, to the detriment of students and taxpayers.

Charter school supporters, like Loeb and the Post editorial board, often argue that Democrats who oppose charter schools (and are allied with teachers unions) are doing so to the detriment of students, especially children of color, who are more likely to attend subpar district schools.

The governor is bent on following his own political sound bites and test scores to the detriment of all students.

«If this plan were to become law, I will provide the board with direct, accurate evidence of [the teachers] who will get swept up — that should not get swept up — in this metric to the detriment of the students of Southold,» Mr. Gamberg said.

Administrators of science funding agencies who lack such information may base funding allocations across scientific disciplines on judgments about where the science is most exciting or where other support is lacking, to the detriment of students encouraged toward fields, however exciting, without waiting jobs.

«In many cases, this has meant schools canceling low - enrollment courses to the detriment of students.

Policymakers» fear of virtual school is unfounded, and this legislation would only block innovation in New Jersey to the detriment of its students.

Schools may therefore try to target resources toward students on the margin of attaining this threshold, to the detriment of students far below and far above.

Because school - choice plans lower the costs to families of switching schools, it is plausible that such plans will increase the movement of students across schools and thereby increase student turnover rates, to the detriment of all students.

New research by British Thornton, the UK's largest educational furniture manufacturer, has shown that cuts to funding in the sector have led to significant reductions in investment in learning environments, to the detriment of both students and teachers alike.

They also don't take too kindly to arguments that elected superintendents focus on politics to the detriment of student achievement.

Together, this indicates that the positive spillovers of charter schools on nearby students at district schools did not come at the detriment of students across the city.

And while teachers recognize that suspensions and other removals can be necessary in serious and limited circumstances, they feel strongly that these strategies fail to provide learning opportunities and are used excessively and unfairly to the detriment of students.

The tiresome excuse that more funding and more time would solve all ills has been disproven over and over, and yet naysayers continue to bring it up to the detriment of students.

The voices of some of the adults in the system are have been empowered to the detriment of students learning.

Test - based accountability policies have also led educators to focus on students who have a reasonable chance, with additional support, of passing high - stakes tests, to the detriment of those students at the greatest risk of dropping out (Booher - Jennings 2005).

Politically powerful school bureaucrats have controlled education policy for over a century, to the detriment of all students and especially students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Yet schools continue to insist on the traditional reward - punishment model, to the detriment of student achievement.

Many of the questions revealed deep frustration and even hostility over the perception that the Department of Education fails to listen to teachers and over-emphasizes standardized testing to the detriment of student learning.

Sadly, many districts are cutting back this position to the detriment of students.

But Teresa Meredith, a vice president at the Indiana State Teachers Association and plaintiff in the voucher suit, argues the voucher program diverts funds away from public education, to the detriment of students with special needs.

At a time when state budget cuts are currently hurting students and teachers at neighborhood public schools, CEA President Sheila Cohen said it would have been unconscionable for the state «to divert precious education funds to expand charter schools at the expense of traditional public schools and to the detriment of all students, but especially minority students in the state's poorest school districts.»

Sadly, many districts are cutting back this position to the detriment of students.