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.»
To be sure, it's because
dysfunctional schools and systems are implementing discipline reform poorly, just like they implement so many other initiatives poorly.
Not exact matches
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
She takes on the professional challenge to overhaul in only three short years, the neglected
and dysfunctional Berkeley
school lunch
system.
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.
They often resemble a
dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the
school system with a score to settle;
and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public
schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.
Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in
dysfunctional and failing urban
school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»
Pre-Katrina, the New Orleans public
school system was highly
dysfunctional,
and student test scores made it the second - lowest - ranked district in the second - lowest - ranked state in the country.
In a national landscape dotted with
dysfunctional urban
school systems and short - lived superintendencies, the Boston Public School district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stan
school systems and short - lived superintendencies, the Boston Public
School district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stan
School district (BPS)
and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stand out.
Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick
and others of a
dysfunctional public
school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests,
and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on
school choice.
The unfortunate answer is that too many urban
school systems preemptively declare underperforming students to be failures, a practice that fosters
dysfunctional classrooms that fail to motivate, engage,
and inspire students to succeed.
Today NYC
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has an editorial in the Daily News in which she defends «public education» —
and, more specifically, the City's traditional
school system — from alleged accusations that «they are violent,
dysfunctional and that their students leave
school without any knowledge.»
During Henderson's five - year tenure, test scores have improved,
schools have beefed up academic
and extracurricular offerings
and the
system — once considered among the most
dysfunctional in the nation — has been hailed by President Obama as an example of promising reform.
We had a
school board that was completely
dysfunctional, the
system's finances were a mess
and worst of all, children were not learning.
And how do we «fix» our endlessly
dysfunctional school accountability
system?
It's easy to douse the hope
and potential of Travis Hill
School with the cold reality of politics, economics
and the
dysfunctional jails
and criminal justice
system in New Orleans.
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.
«We need a new approach to the ongoing failure of our city
school systems... one that stops jamming scarce resources into
dysfunctional systems that remain impervious to reform
and improvement,» Smarick wrote in a recent blog post for a conservative think tank.
The simple act of publishing annual test scores «disaggregated» by race, ethnicity, language
and disability status has proved that discrimination remains deeply embedded in our public education
system,
and not just in
dysfunctional urban
schools.
Children from poor communities need social policy that involves
schools and enrichment programs, but also need programs to address the conditions that devastate students» lives: poor nutrition
and healthcare, inadequate housing, parental unemployment, violent streets,
and a
dysfunctional immigration
system.
AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; AFFEX,
System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment
and Classification; ASCT, Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's
Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma
and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent
and Peer Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders
and Schizophrenia for
School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders
and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions
and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament
and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.