Sentences with phrase «do about failing schools»

What are we doing about failing schools, how do we pay teachers and what we are paying for are questions that are implicitly raised in every budget.

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Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

I read all the time about mal - practice in hospitals, incect cases in churches or schools, not even speaking about how our education system fails in a basic thing like teaching all of our children to read (you do your research and find out the number or illiteracy in this country).

In my review of the show, I'd criticized Jamie Oliver in a big way for failing to tell viewers that Carpinteria High, the school he held up as a model for excellent food (and it did look fantastic, no question about it), was the recipient of a generous grant from the Orfalea Foundation which assisted with staff training, the purchase of kitchen equipment and the planting and maintenance of the school garden.

Poppendieck (whom I often refer to on this site as my «school lunch guru») was responding to my post «Lessons from a Bowl of Oatmeal» in which I posit that changing lunch menus is only half the battle — if we don't also educate students about new foods and encourage them to taste new items on their lunch tray, all of our best efforts at reform are doomed to fail.

But if Sweetgreen's goal was to raise awareness about school nutrition (and not just garner a lot of publicity for its restaurants, which it did in spades), I fail to see what it accomplished by holding American schools up to an unrealistic international standard — whether the standard is unrealistic because it's inaccurate (Greece) or because the country in question invests far more time, money and effort than the United States in feeding its children (France.)

Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

Anecdotally, he said, the UFT is hearing about teachers who were told they will have their probations extended because their principal is new, because their principal neglected to do the required observations or because their school has failing scores.

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

Other issues on Carranza's agenda will be what to do about dozens of failing schools in New York City, the debate over testing, the question of how to attract the best teachers and what teachers are lacking in their current contracts.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

She appeared on NY1's Inside City Hall on Thursday night and spoke, as she often does, about what she and her allies call New York's «failing school» crisis.

The time is now for the State Legislature to act and do something about this problem so we no longer are condemning our children to failing schools.»

When leaders of a school, church or youth group fail to report what they know about potential crimes, the real damage they do is to the child victims.

Note that a caring mother does not tell her child «don't worry about it» if she's making failing grades in school.

He's also the guy least likely to succeed, as he's an alcoholic who is failing his classes, and doesn't seem to be even thinking about college, as he doesn't even care if he flunks out of high school.

Teachers wrote about parents who failed to return repeated phone calls; who never showed up for conferences or school events; who appeared uninterested in their childrens educational progress; who did nt notify them when difficult family situations threatened a childs behavior or grades.

Created in the Race - to - the - Top - application era to convince federal proposal - scorers that Tennessee was serious about its failing schools, the ASD was charged with, well, doing exactly that.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

Many districts simply fail to define their theories of reform - in some cases because superintendents and school - board members can not agree on what should be done; in other cases because officials don't wish to make specific promises about actions and results.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

Too often, discussions about the use of computers, web - based delivery, and instructional software fail to consider what needs to be done in policy, school organization, or within the teaching profession to take full advantage of those tools.

At the same time, though, courts have refused to apply the defense of assumption of risk when educators failed to provide adequate supervision such as where a competitor in a track and field meet was struck by an errant discus while standing in a safe zone; a student was injured during an indoor (American) football practice when he slipped on a wet gym floor where coaches failed to provide proper supervision or after another player was injured due to the lack of supervision at a practice; coaches did not warn a student sufficiently about the dangers of diving into a pool; coaches conducted a track practice in a high school hallway that unreasonably increased a student's risk of injury; and a coach lacked enough experience to provide adequate supervision to avoid injury to a cheerleader.

Currently, about one - third of all public schools in the nation — more than 30,000 — have been stigmatized as failing because they did not make what the law calls «adequate yearly progress.»

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«The job of, say, taking on a school in special measures in a very challenging community is very different to that of running a grammar school, and the DNA argument, that there's something about grammar schools that you can just transplant into a failing school, does not stack up,» he said.

In closing, I'd simply say that if we want dynamic, responsive, high - quality, and self - improving systems of urban schools, we need to stop stubbornly preserving the failed schools of yesterday and get about the business of building mechanisms that continuously introduce new offerings, grow successes, and phase out schools that don't work for kids.

At the same time, Rotherham fails to remember that for all the preening of Beltway reformers, the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

On Monday, the New York Department of Education considered what to do about transfer schools that fail to graduate 67 percent of their students in six years or less.

The EEP has called for an effective teacher for every child (paying teachers as professionals, giving them the tools and training to do their work effectively, and making tough decisions about ineffective teachers); empowering parents by allowing them to choose the best schools for their children; holding grown - ups at all levels accountable for the education of our children; and, very important, having enough strength in our convictions to stand up to anyone who seeks to preserve a failed system.

He hopes that parents of children in failing schools, armed with information about how their schools and children are doing, will force schools to offer them the options that are laid out in the federal law.

Brooks says he knows skipping state tests doesn't address broader concerns about labeling schools as «failing» and increasing influence of private companies in public education.

Mulgrew also blasted the governor for being behind «corporate bonus - style merit pay,» claimed that his «education agenda isn't about education at all — it is political payback» (because the unions did not support his reelection bid) and that «it is poverty and inequality and lack of funding, not «failing schools» or «bad teachers,» that are at the root of our education system's struggles.»

«Here's the bad news about making America's next generation competitive in the global economy: Anything we do today to fix our failing public schools will take fifteen to twenty years to show significant results.

In doing so, schools fail to recognize, or simply ignore, the fact that risk factors directly affect a student's daily life and negatively influence their behavior and attitudes about education.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

For one, his proclamations that families aren't equipped to manage schools fails to consider the reality that some of the most - successful school reform efforts have been — and continue to be — done by folks who didn't know much about education until stumbled into reform.

Each would significantly scale back the federal role in public education, giving states far more latitude to determine which schools are failing to serve students and what should be done about them.

The government could play a role in improving consumer information about schools, but we have to be careful that we don't force schools to attend to a single measure that fails to reflect quality adequately.

«It's not about public schools failing, it's about the idea that people are meddling and public schools aren't allowed to use and do the things we're supposed to do,» he said.

«One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me «Superman» did not exist,» the educational reformer Geoffrey Canada recalls in the opening moments of «Waiting for «Superman,»» a powerful and alarming documentary about America's failing public school system.

The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.

Alexandria, VA (02/23/11)-- In his new ASCD book, Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It, Ronald A. Wolk draws on three decades spent in the school reform trenches to question the common assumptions about the U.S. education syAbout It, Ronald A. Wolk draws on three decades spent in the school reform trenches to question the common assumptions about the U.S. education syabout the U.S. education system.

In other words, the reformers do not know what they are doing or talking about when they talk about «failing schools»!

Elite white guilt made it impossible to say that a lot of black children were going to continue to fail in school and there's nothing anybody could do about it.

A final element that should cause concern about cyber charter schools is that not only do massive cyber schools fail to provide effective services found in quality local public schools, but they also cripple efforts of local public schools to improve.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

But there's a hollow ring to the name, given the failure of lawmakers to put in place any requirements that states actually do something about schools that consistently fail to help their students achieve.

While Duncan's did lower dropout rates in the city's high schools, when he left Chicago, the number of 11th graders who failed to meet the state standards was about 70 percent.

One of the most vexing problems for high schools — and society at large — is what to do about students who have repeatedly failed a grade and are on the verge of dropping out.