"Educational malpractice" refers to situations where teachers or educational institutions fail to provide students with a proper and adequate education, causing harm or negative impacts on their learning and development. It implies negligence or misconduct on the part of the educators that hinders the students' ability to learn and grow, depriving them of the education they deserve.
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But as a series of recent reports have shown, far too many states and districts are damaging the futures of children with practices that range
from educational malpractice to criminal abuse.
The data once again serves as a reminder that
educational malpractice borne upon poor and minority children visit their better - off peers in the form of academic neglect.
Since the first widely publicized case in which a claim
of educational malpractice was made — a 1976 California suit brought by a high - school graduate who charged he was illiterate — state courts, including New York's, have continued to turn...
It also made it clear to suburban districts that they could no longer continue to commit
educational malpractice against poor and minority children, as well as focused American public education on achieving measurable results instead of damning kids to low expectations.
As noted by Frank B. Murray, president of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC), a rival accrediting agency, even among education scholars and practitioners, «there is still no consensus... about what would
constitute educational malpractice.»
That the traditional teacher compensation system, focused on rewarding teachers based on seniority and degree attainment, is ineffective in spurring student achievement fails to reward good - to - great teachers and keeps laggards in classrooms to
continue educational malpractice.
While some NYC parents may have initially gravitated to this movement in order to protect their own children
from educational malpractice, a growing number of opponents of the state testing program are opting - out for justice.
It is human nature to resist change, (but) I believe the traditional nine months on, three months off calendar is
educational malpractice.»
Of course, Jobs ultimately survived
the educational malpractice he faced, and he changed the world in significant ways.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has upheld a lower - court ruling that dismissed charges of «
educational malpractice» against a private school.
New York State's highest court, ruling on two cases in which children were allegedly misdiagnosed as retarded, last month rejected in one case the concept of «
educational malpractice» as legal grounds on which to redress such plaintiffs» grievances against public agencies.
I tell teachers that failure to embrace emerging technologies in today's 2010 classroom is
educational malpractice... we would never send our children to pediatricians who were practicing medicine from the 80's, so why on earth would we expect parents to send their children to school with teacher's practicing decades old methodologies
As a teacher in a public high school, she felt that the «test and punish» system verged on «
educational malpractice,» she says.
«If students receive consecutive 100 % on tasks or assessments, that really is
educational malpractice.
Teachers know that to design an assessment that fails the majority of students taking the test is absurd on its face, but then to allow those who favor this practice to continue justifying its use is
educational malpractice.
March 4, 2014 Austin Superintendent Meria Carstarphen, was quoted as saying that, «You have to, yes, be accountable for academic outcomes, but we also have to be accountable to children and helping them develop [social and emotional] skills, and if we're not doing it, I believe it's
educational malpractice,» she said.
Experts in early child development call
them educational malpractice and even child abuse.
The students spend much of their time playing games or reading while she surfs the internet, as one of many examples of
the educational malpractice taking place.
Given this sort of
educational malpractice, the fascination with Black Mountain as an alternative is easy to understand.