Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional schools»

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

The battle is furious and your support is needed now so students can quickly transfer from dysfunctional schools to ones that will put them on track to a successful future in college and the world of work.

Over time, I came to think of this as technology's Law of Amplification: While technology helps education where it's already doing well, technology does little for mediocre educational systems; and in dysfunctional schools, it can cause outright harm.

Results from the School Improvement Grants have shored up previous research showing that pouring money into dysfunctional schools and systems does not work, Smarick said: «I can imagine Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump saying this is exactly why kids need school choice.»

At SIG's onset, I went on the record predicting it would end as a monumental, possibly historic, waste of precious resources — investing billions of dollars in dysfunctional schools embedded in dysfunctional districts against the clear lessons of decades of research and experience.

To be sure, it's because dysfunctional schools and systems are implementing discipline reform poorly, just like they implement so many other initiatives poorly.

In the late 1980s, he was principal of one of New York's most dysfunctional schools: P.S. 67, in the South Bronx.

The motivation behind New Leaders was to supply new blood to cities that were reportedly facing shortages of qualified principals ready to turn around dysfunctional schools.

Mentoring also is most likely to be mishandled and work least effectively in the most dysfunctional schools, the schools that have the hardest time holding on to new teachers.

Can NCLB's accountability mechanisms be made more precise, so that they would compel significant reconstitution in chronically dysfunctional schools without catching in the net schools that, while in need of improvement, do not require dramatic reconstitution?

Dysfunctional schools are generally a function of dysfunctional districts.

All those dysfunctional schools, «needing improvement» for years, all prior remedies exhausted — where else would parents turn but to charter schools?

De Blasio's expensive Renewal program to fix dysfunctional schools has utterly failed to turn them around.

«People will not like, necessarily, what I have to say, but I'm a person who is trying to get my arms around a totally dysfunctional school district which is not performing,» Paladino said.

Before joining the board Carl Paladino had been railing for years against what he termed a dysfunctional school board, which at the time had a board majority of black women he labeled «the sisterhood.»

«That laissez - faire attitude left Michigan families with a deeply dysfunctional school system that continues to fail kids.

The only families interested in buying a home in a dysfunctional school system are those who do not wish to enroll their kids in that school system.

Comer writes that when they begin with a dysfunctional school they might expect improvement in five years.

Chenoweth suspects the high scores of the dysfunctional school she presents in contrast to her other successful schools «had not been attained in a legitimate way.»

I am not going to seal his future and no parent should be forced to take their child to a dysfunctional school.

For school reformers and defenders of traditional public education these days, the Atlanta metropolitan area is better - known for the testing scandal that has engulfed Atlanta Public Schools, revealed the district's dysfunctional school governance, and led to Superintendent Beverly Hall's fall from grace.

Some see Wilkinsburg's plight as evidence of a broken school funding system that shortchanges children from poor families, while others see it as an argument for investing in charter schools instead of trying to turn around dysfunctional school systems.

And how do we «fix» our endlessly dysfunctional school accountability system?

Not exact matches

Some dysfunctional parents will not even care enough to choose a school.

There will be a small percent of highly dysfunctional parents who will not take responsibility for selecting a school.

Small, faith - based schools with religiously motivated teachers are more likely to offer the special attention, loving intimacy and moral standards hat an increasing number of dysfunctional homes can not provide.

Some years ago I was supposed to teach an eighth - grade Bible school class what a dysfunctional group is and why it is spelled with a «y.» I'm not sure if it was before that explanation or after that we were supposed to make pizza together, but what we had while we were working through the etymology of «dys» was not exactly group enthusiasm.

They saw the value of demonstrating their love for God by being faithful in the little things; a community that was so dysfunctional became one that was a true «school for saints».

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

Christian faith is not inherited; each generation, each individual, must learn faith anew.11 Recent Protestant innovations in membership procedures and sacramental practices are only the logical extension of long - dysfunctional assumptions about the faith formation of persons in the home, in Sunday School, and in the church.

She takes on the professional challenge to overhaul in only three short years, the neglected and dysfunctional Berkeley school lunch system.

«This school is dysfunctional.

Talk about how American's have to pay for their children to go to private schools because public schools are welfare schools and 99 % dysfunctional.

In the Ohio 15th, whatever comeback Pryce may have is the result of an unending barrage of negative TV ads about her opponent, dating to the opponent's membership on what was, because of other members, a dysfunctional Columbus city school board.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

I suspect the shift is more to do with the coverage of the dysfunctional Al - Madinah free school in Derby than Nick Clegg's recent comments, but looking specifically at his comments 66 % of people agree that schools should only be able to employ qualified teachers, 56 % that all schools should have to follow the national curriculum.

He has severely attacked black members of the school board but he has also worked hard at the school board to make changes he believes will help students including struggling black students living in dysfunctional homes.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

SEED schools are boarding schools and nationally they have provided an answer, other than finger pointing at the failure of parents who in most cases are victims of the same dysfunctional society and school systems that their children are in.

The bill prompted swift criticism from both Democratic members of the Assembly and the Partnership for New York City, a business group, which warned that it would return the schools to a chaotic and dysfunctional form of governance.

«Because of the dysfunctionality of the school system, it caused a wave of people over the years leaving the city because they weren't going to send their children to a dysfunctional public school.

«I looked at the Buffalo Public Schools as a very dysfunctional thing.»

In the last mayoral election, most of the Democratic wannabes vowed to keep open dysfunctional city schools, just to preserve jobs for staff and cater to unions.

It's been a continuing nonsensical, dysfunctional effort out of this board over the years to try to change things to make this school system better,» said Paladino.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

By the way, over the next several years, I predict we'll learn these lessons about dysfunctional measurement all over again from the craze over testing in our public schools.

A new study led by Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D. suggests that the brain network interactions between regions that support attention are dysfunctional in children and adolescents at genetic risk for developing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Fun Size is a teen comedy centered on a sarcastic high school senior, Wren, who is eager to distance herself from her dysfunctional family by going off to college.

Old School DOES have some very funny moments but the real problem is the three main characters are about as dysfunctional and sorry as people get.

The dysfunctional ones in «Smart People» are a widower, who is an insensitive, self - absorbed university teacher (Dennis Quaid); his isolated, perfectionist, high school senior daughter (Ellen Page); his irresponsible brother (Thomas Haden Church), and a former student who is now a doctor burdened with issues (Sarah Jessica Parker).