Sentences with phrase «education problem results»

Exactly how much of Mississippi's education problem results from poor funding and how much of it is the education community's resistance to change is subject to debate.

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It's easy to postulate that homeschooling parents are unusually committed, but these results still challenge the prevailing orthodoxy that societal problems inevitably hold education hostage.

These misunderstandings, perhaps the result of incomplete or absent education about normal infant behavior or lack of availability of local breastfeeding support, often cause a mother to perceive a breastfeeding or lactation problem that may not actually be present.

«My message to everyone is you got to get this done by June 30 and that the results of not getting it done by June 30 is that we start back down the road of a system that failed our children,» added de Blasio, referring to the old Board of Education system that was plagued by political patronage and other problems.

«Claims that the education budget has been protected are ringing increasingly hollow as more and more problems arise as a result of underfunding by the Coalition Government and a failure to use taxpayers» money most effectively.

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has said the fundamental problem facing the country is not as a result of its political structure but the failure...

«One of the major problems when you restrict calories on a diet is that you lose muscle mass, and as a result, your metabolism slows down to accommodate the restriction of food,» said Eric Plaisance, Ph.D., assistant professor of exercise science in the UAB School of Education.

After controlling for age, race, sex, marital status, education, drug use, and smoking, compared to people who did not binge drink, people who drank at the various binge levels were much more likely to experience an alcohol - related emergency department visit; have an alcohol use disorder; be injured because of drinking; be arrested or have legal problems resulting from alcohol use; or be the driver in an alcohol - related traffic crash.

Although the results were mixed, Active Physics consistently outperformed traditional lecture courses in conceptual learning and in attitudes toward learning and problem solving, said Regina Frey, the Moog professor of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education in chemistry who co-led the evaluation team.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

He also erred in setting up charter schools as the singular answer to the nation's education problems, especially since he admits that only one in five charters gets «amazing results.»

As a result, although they don't tackle the high cost of degrees directly, if edX and others like it create a new ecosystem that, for many, renders a «degree» as we've known it irrelevant, they may end up solving the spiraling costs of higher education better than those efforts that take direct aim at the problem.

Governors, state education departments, legislatures, and the federal Congress have been unable to solve the nation's educational problems over the past half century, so why should anyone expect judicial interventions to achieve immediate, decisive results?

While Burack argues that global education's believers «exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers,» many of the problems he describes with the treatment of global diversity are a reflection of the textbook production and marketing process rather than the result of a conspiracy among educators.

That's a shame, since the same basic dysfunctions that ail general education afflict special education too: middling (or worse) teacher quality; an inclination to throw «more people» at any problem; a reluctance to look at cost - effectiveness; a crazy quilt of governance and decision - making authorities; a tendency to add rather than replace or redirect; and a full - on fear of results - based accountability.

In his now - classic 1961 study The Adolescent Society: The Social Life of the Teenager and Its Impact on Education (excerpts), Coleman identified a series of problems that resulted from the separate society that high school had created for teenagers.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Asseducation - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers AssEducation and the Media and the Education Writers AssEducation Writers Association.

International Horizons Unlimited, as an educational resource and consulting firm, subscribes to the principle that the education of stakeholders results in the ability to prevent [problems].

This, the National Commission on Excellence in Education, was the result of society's placing a «multitude of often conflicting demands» on the schools, which were asked to solve «personal, social, and political problems» that the home and other social institutions were failing to fix.

«These positive results are based on a new college and career readiness assessment that is online, and expects students to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills unlike the old, multiple choice tests they replace,» said State Board of Education President Mike Kirst.

By the end of two years, the goal is for each state and district team to have well - trained leaders who have had extensive practice in effective problem - solving approaches and to apply them in ways that result in significant improvements in education leadership practices and student learning at the state, district, and school levels.

They also have a negative effect on their classroom peers, resulting in decreased test scores and increased disciplinary problems according to a new study by economists Scott Carrell of the University of California — Davisand Mark Hoekstra of the University of Pittsburgh, published in the summer issue of Education Next.

Sally Collier, the chief regulator of Ofqual, told MPs on the parliamentary education committee this morning that the 52 - per - cent increase in the number of grade changes this year resulted from problems at the review stage, rather than the original marks.

In addition, the Blog critiques (a) the PBIS and SEL frameworks; (b) Character Education; (c) John Hattie's meta - analytic research and results; and (d) how to know when a student's behavioral problems are disciplinary in nature, or due to an underlying psychoeducational issue.

The American Enterprise Institute's Frederick M. Hess and Brendan Bell write that, with all state accountability plans in the hopper at the U.S. Department of Education, states paying heed to calls for plans to be ambitious has resulted in a «curious quandary: The problem with...

Here in Connecticut Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education has pontificated that there were very few technical problems with the Common Core SBAC test in Connecticut, although no independent analysis of the claim has been completed and even the claim that there were «few problems» is suspect considering that in at least two Connecticut School Districts students were given the wrong test and the community's entire results had to be thrown out.

The results from those new Common Core tests — designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills — have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep - seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

Despite the problems with the SAT9, the results do not show that dropping bilingual education is responsible for test score increases.

It is Blair and Michael Barber who were behind the test - driven, marketisation model of education that is causing the problem of shallow, behaviourist, memory - based teaching resulting from the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) that is infecting oureducation that is causing the problem of shallow, behaviourist, memory - based teaching resulting from the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) that is infecting ourEducation Reform Movement (GERM) that is infecting our schools.

They will learn through values based education programs how to establish respectful and productive interpersonal relationships through daily interactions and about the qualities of leadership and character that result in being responsible decision - makers and problem - solvers.

«It is immensely gratifying to release a report which demonstrates that high numbers of charter schools are generating results that provide hope that public education's most intractable problems can be addressed, in spite of all the challenges charters face.

Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said the racial disparity in school suspensions wasn't a reflection of problems in our society, but the result of «racial discrimination» in our schools.

This strategy also paints education policymakers in an innovative light; they look as though they are thinking outside the box to attack a problem largely created as a result of the state's own negligence.

Given what we know about the flatlining or decline in elementary - and secondary - education achievement levels, and the void in any sense of true accountability in undergraduate higher education, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised at these results, but it certainly should add to the urgency of the problem.

A 2013 Dear Colleague letter and enclosure by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) clarified that when the bullying of a student with a disability results in the student not receiving meaningful educational benefit under IDEA, the school must remedy the problem, regardless of whether the bullying was based on the student's disability.

A «comprehensive approach [to character education] is based on a somewhat dim view of human nature,» acknowledges William Kilpatrick, whose book Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong contains such assertions as: «Most behavior problems are the result of sheer «willfulness» on the part of children.»

The problem of attrition is further compounded in countries like Australia, where an aging workforce will result in a large number of retirements within the next decade or two (e.g., Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, 2003).

The main problem of American primary and secondary education is one that conservatives should understand: It is a market with insufficient information and choices, resulting in poor quality.

Her employer, Bright Star Schools, reviewed the results, crafted a proposal, and on Friday won a $ 250,000 grant to improve teacher retention, which is a major problem in education and can be especially challenging for charter schools.

The solution to this problem should not result in denying parents their inalienable right to protect their children from what they might consider harmful which is what this bill does by punishing local school districts into pressuring parents to comply with state testing requirements that the education leaders refuse to change.

As a result of her independent voting record, her leadership in school reform efforts, and her pragmatic approach to fiscal problems, Tamar was overwhelmingly re-elected to a second term on the Board of Education in 2011.

In «Quality and Equity in American Education: Systemic Problems, Systemic Solutions,» the authors write that continuous improvement is focused on system outcomes for a defined population of beneficiaries and the processes that lead to those results.

The «improved test results» that they education reforms tout are simply the result of policy changes that allowed these schools to skim off students that are less poor, have fewer language barriers, need fewer special education services or display fewer behavioral problems.

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

Although they face the same troubles as all women in modern times, they have also to face the historical opposition force of a recent colonization social mentality and have to overcome economic and lack of education problems that result from their parent's immigration origin.»

Public education is one of the rights that people pay with the tax of all of todos (us), the taxpayers, logically resulting to be of no cost to the students, however, it is a financial problem for the neoliberal system, even though it represents a small percentage of the taxes, not comparable to the cost of salaries of government and bureaucracy, or equivalent to those proposed by international organizations.

Empirically, it is based on the rapid increase in transnational2 interaction (both business and personal) and the resulting development of increasingly complex and increasingly frequent legal problems that raise transnational legal issues as well.3 Normatively, it rests on the view that legal education has an affirmative obligation to expose students to other nations, cultures, and legal systems.4 Legal educators now widely agree that American law schools need to do more to bring international and foreign law prominently into the law school curriculum.

You don't have to worry about the result of the online driver's education because many have passed the same stage without any problem in passing the driving examinations.

The sentiment expressed by the poll results is perhaps most concerning because it is in spite of the fact that Canada has been undertaking serious efforts to combat the problem — with new legislation and public education efforts at the forefront.

• Singlehandedly develop an interactive learning program based on individual students» learning abilities, resulting in increased positive response from the student body • Train fellow special education teachers in using sign language with students with hearing and speech problems, which resulted in increased student confidence • Create and implement curriculum based on the individual requirements of each student enrolled in the special needs class • Design, develop and implement lesson plans to meet each special student's requirements • Assess each enrolled student to determine his or her individual capabilities and limitations • Provide both direct and indirect instructional support to students by employing special education strategies and techniques • Teach socially acceptable behavior by both instructing it and modeling it effectively