Not exact matches
When parents see Csar Chvez, they see a small
school in good academic standing offering a host of extracurricular activities, and with fewer
discipline problems than other
public schools.
In the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll on attitudes toward the nation's
schools, the
public has, for each of the past several years, ranked
discipline among the top three «biggest»
problems.
Low teacher salaries,
discipline problems, standardized testing, poor principals and administrators, and the impact of poverty are among the reasons South Carolina
public -
school teachers are quitting their jobs
in record numbers, pushing K - 12 classrooms into crisis.
Responding to recent violent incidents and concerns about student -
discipline problems raised by a high -
school headmaster and others
in the Boston
Public Schools, Mayor Raymond Flynn of Boston late last week called a meeting of top city and
school officials to try to reach agreement on how to address the
problem.
Over the course of the 20th century, some of the most persistent challenges
in public education — from the dropout
problem in the 1950s, to educational disadvantage
in the 1960s, to
school discipline in recent years — have been reframed
in psychological terms.
While disproportionate
discipline of students with disabilities remains a pervasive
problem in all
public schools, the charter sector
in particular should hold itself to a higher standard and not recreate the
problems that have disillusioned so many parents of students with disabilities about
public schools» commitment to their student's success.»
Combine the struggles
in improving literacy with low levels of classroom management skills among many teachers (another
problem traceable to ed
schools), the arbitrary nature of traditional
school discipline practices, and the
problems within American
public education attributable to racialist practices such as ability grouping, and it is little wonder why the overuse of suspensions is such a
problem for our kids.
35 percent of Americans believe lack of financial support is the biggest
problem public schools in their community must face; lack of
discipline came
in second with 8 percent.
The Children's Guild District of Columbia
Public Charter
School's mission is to use the philosophy of Transformation Education to prepare special needs and general education students for college, career readiness, and citizenship
in their community by developing
in them critical thinking and creative
problem solving skills, self -
discipline and a commitment to serve a cause larger than themselves.
Violence and
discipline problems in U.S.
public schools.