Sentences with phrase «educational failure»

The FAST program targets the underlying causes of being at risk of educational failure, substance abuse, violence and delinquency.

It is an independent citizen response to heartbreaking educational failures that the responsible public institutions showed no capacity to solve on their own.

But it is much more difficult to learn to read once the cycle of educational failure has already taken hold.

Sir Michael, the head of education watchdog, Ofsted has also claimed poverty is too often used as an excuse for educational failure among white working - class families.

In most cases the business won't succeed, they will call it a failure, write a blog post on how educational failure is, fill in for bankruptcy and move on the next adventure.

Remarkably, while the school system purports to hold children to a standard of excellence, principals can be removed only if they engage in «persistent educational failure.»

Affirming Rogers» earlier point, the Globe article noted, «Middle schools were conceived in the 1970s and»80s as a nurturing bridge from early elementary grades to high school, but critics say they now more often resemble a swamp, where urban youth sink into educational failure.»

A state guided, bipartisan effort to save Camden, New Jersey, from educational failure is slowly seeing signs of progress.

Asked if there was a connection between educational failure and the rioting, he said: «I think there is a link.

These disparities represent a stubborn educational failure story.

From Bill Gates and Eli Broad to Michelle Rhee and now Tony Smith, these self - proclaimed education «reformers» are short on education experience and long on placing the blame for educational failures where it doesn't belong.

These fixed deadlines accurately make your mind impassive leading you to one more educational failure if you don't get the strength to expert yourself.

Or, we can fail to make the investment and pay the price: increased delinquency, greater educational failures, lowered productivity, less economic competitiveness, and fewer adults prepared to be effective, loving parents to the next generation of children.

As Ms Truss points out, the seeds of educational failure for poor children are sown early, and the later education starts, the more they will lose out.

The Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is Michigan's state funded preschool program that provides funding for programs that serve four year old children who qualify based on certain factors that may place them at risk for educational failure.

Since no one has more effectively chronicled a century of educational failure than Ravitch, I marvel at her faith that this time public schools will get it right.

He's got a point — extensive evidence shows that involved fatherhood provides real protection from the dangers of educational failure and adolescent disaffection.

That goes two ways: firstly it is the product of poverty, broken communities, educational failure, mental health problems, domestic abuse and absent fathers.

«Mr Duncan Smith will suggest other factors in determining child poverty — including whether or not their parents are in work, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health.

Hats off to Elizabeth Truss for her riposte to the collection of early years specialists, academics and pundits who have tried yet again to persuade us that the root cause of educational failure is too early a start to school.

He is a proponent of the educational failure known as Common Core, with its increased nonsensical testing that takes away from valuable student learning.

[3] It has also produced well - publicised reports into gang culture, [4] modern slavery, [5] addiction, [6] family breakdown, [7] and educational failure.

Suddenly talking about poverty, worklessness, addiction, educational failure and family breakdown was no longer the preserve of the Left.

But educational failure is not a tale of unaccountable and union - protected layabouts refusing to do right by children.

The task force's final report, in 1990, ascribed (as I wrote at the time) «near - magical powers to self - esteem, characterizing it as «something that empowers us to live responsibly and that inoculates us against the lures of crime, violence, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, child abuse, chronic welfare dependency, and educational failure.»»

What had been conceived as an educational melting pot had for many become a cauldron of educational failure.

To return to Magnuson and Waldfogel, if desegregation was such an educational failure, why did the test - score gap diminish so markedly during the 1970s and early 1980s?

The educational failures of test - based accountability, as detrimental as they are, will not spell its demise.

Truancy has been clearly identified as one of the early warning signs of a student headed for potential delinquent activity, social isolation, or educational failure.»

If desegregation was such an educational failure, why did the test - score gap diminish so markedly during the 1970s and early 1980s?

It demonstrates that retention impedes the progress of children in learning the material they have missed and leads primarily to drop out and educational failure....

The U.S. Department of Education defines high needs students as those who are at risk of educational failure or otherwise in need of special assistance and support.

She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.

Ravitch puts forth a chapter - by - chapter breakdown of what can be done to preserve public school education, making clear what is right with our education system, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and discussing in detail how to fix these problems.

This process has a cost but the cost of educational failure is vastly higher.»

«We must reclaim our schools and our children who are at risk of educational failure.

For nearly 30 years, the Center for Schools and Communities (CSC) has built capacity in professionals, strengthened organizational systems and transformed lives by reducing academic barriers that exist for students who are at - risk for educational failure.

Background: Behavioural problems are common in early childhood, and can result in enduring costs to the individual and society, including an increased risk of mental and physical illness, criminality, educational failure and drug and alcohol misuse.

Vice-President Dr. Chantal Clot - Grangeat, Chambéry (France), stated, «Our aim is to find solutions for reducing the problems of children known to arise from family breakdown, such as diminished self - esteem, depression, and possible parental alienation, as well as educational failure, substance abuse, and trouble with the law.»

Parent - delivered compensatory education for children at risk of educational failure: Improving the academic and self - regulatory skills of a Sure Start preschool sample