Sentences with phrase «educational crisis»

Nor is the problem that he went so far as to argue that the Court should «ignore» both the fact that the voucher program was initiated in response to a severe educational crisis in the Cleveland public schools and the fact that parental decisions about how to spend their vouchers were voluntary.

A recent report by the U.S. Department of Education (USED) identifies «chronic absenteeism» as a hidden educational crisis.

Buffalo, NY — On Monday, August 1, Buffalo community activists and clergy members will be hosting an Emergency Town Hall Meeting to address the growing educational crisis affecting Buffalo's public school children.

On Monday, August 1, Buffalo community activists and clergy members will be hosting an Emergency Town Hall Meeting to address the growing educational crisis affecting Buffalo's public school children.

The current educational crisis of Latino young men and boys has led to a proliferation of school district and community programs seeking to remedy the achievement gap experienced by Latino boys through Latino male mentorship programs.

Ten years following its release, commission member and Nobel Prize - winning chemist Glenn Seaborg wrote, «It is now apparent that the pre-college educational crisis and the urgent need for educational reform are broadly perceived as being a top priority.»

The letter places the struggle at the Cooper Union in the context of the larger educational crisis in this country, citing the increasingly and insanely high cost of college as the precise reason why the Cooper Union must remain free.

The Department of Education just released its first - ever report on what it labels a «hidden educational crisis» — chronic absenteeism, defined as missing more than 15 days of school in a year — in American schools, and the statistics are sobering: In the 2013 — 2014 school year, more than 6.5 million kids fell into this category.

The studio will also feature the visiting artist project in progress, Dismantled a response to the debates, realities and contradictions surrounding the current educational crisis; they are working with Sa Bachman and Krista Caballero.

Thus, to address a potentially growing educational crisis, the ECR project goal was to provide technical assistance to the Nigerian state governments, by collaboratively designing and delivering instruction in basic literacy, numeracy and social and emotional learning to IDP children and youth.

He needs to be honest with people and admit to himself that John King set the cut scores for the new Common Core assessments (which districts had little time to prepare for) so high that it would look like we have an educational crisis in NY.

I don't see any big ideas, any solutions to this incredible problem that is causing so much suffering,» Moskowitz said, referring to what she calls New York's «educational crisis.»

Buffalo schools open in a month and a large group of clergy, activists, parents and school leaders turned out Monday night in Friendship Baptist Church for an emergency meeting to discuss what they see as an educational crisis.

The Teacher Salary Project encompasses the feature - length documentary film American Teacher, an interactive online resource, and a national outreach campaign that delves into the core of our educational crisis as seen through the eyes and experiences of our nation's teachers.

The report's striking title reminds us that although we may no longer suffer the panic of two decades ago, when we faced what some perceived as an educational crisis so severe that it threatened the nation's security, we...

Ronald Reagan reversed the downward trend in SAT scores almost overnight when his National Commission on Educational Excellence galvanized the nation to take the educational crisis seriously.

Will the emerging fiscal crisis accelerate the educational crisis that is leaving American students ever further behind the skill level it takes to function in the modern economy?

If we can present this to the American Pediatric Association as a medical crisis, not just an educational crisis, then we will get society's attention and have credibility in other sources.

By Susan G. Weinberger and Janet B. Forbush In 2016, the U.S. Department of Education characterized chronic student absenteeism as a hidden educational crisis.

Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash recently welcomed charters as part of a solution to the district's educational crisis.

skrashen, I think there is an educational crisis.

More than 1 in 4 of the nation's full - time teachers are considered chronically absent from school, according to federal data, missing the equivalent of more than two weeks of classes each academic year in what some districts say has become an educational crisis.

This will allow CEG to further strengthen our position as a leader in urban education and provide a solution to the educational crisis in Detroit.

The story starts in the Progressive Era (1890 — 1920), when an educational crisis was identified by a group of muckraking journalists, who used the power of the press to expose what they saw as a corrupt, nepotistic, and highly inefficient patchwork of schooling.

Aligning with Alma Powell's belief in uniting a community to help solve the educational crisis, public schools across the country have developed comprehensive programs to bring dropout students back to their classrooms.

The dismal figures signal an educational crisis, say authors of a report being released Wednesday, as districts fail the largest - growing demographic group.

What ed schools fail to realize is that it is their very desultory quality of training that has helped sustain the nation's educational crisis.

Jackson in particular has done almost nothing to advance systemic reform in his own hometown, and has offered little in the way of ideas on how to end an educational crisis that condemns half of all young black men to the economic and social abyss.