Center researchers often design formative assessment techniques, as well as new teaching and learning approaches for and study innovations in settings where students
face challenges of poverty and other inequities.
First, those families would have an easier time
facing the challenges of poverty.
It's important that we learn from those who have extensive experience dealing with government and non-government agencies, and it is absolutely vital that we learn from those who are actually
facing the challenges of poverty themselves.
Teach For America works in partnership with communities to expand educational opportunity for children
facing the challenges of poverty.
Not exact matches
Pope Francis seeks to encourage families with practical guidance amid the myriad
of challenges they
face around the world, including unemployment, migration,
poverty, gambling, alcoholism, polygamy and societal pressures that ignore the longstanding Catholic teaching
of marriage.
You could say that the list
of challenges facing each diocese in western Europe is well - rehearsed: the secularism that we're fighting, inside and outside the church; the pressures on families; the pressures on education; engagement with the young; the problems caused by a kind
of poverty that just alienates people from life and also from the Church.
«Several
of our organizations operate or support ministries in Central America, and our colleagues there are deeply concerned about the impact
of a withdrawal
of TPS on the country as a whole, which is
facing serious
challenges of violence and
poverty.»
To meet the world's growing food security needs and
face the parallel
challenges of improving nutrition and reducing
poverty under a changing global climate, a second — science - based — Green Revolution in agriculture is already under way.
The aim
of the Cocoa For Good project is to address key
challenges facing the industry, namely
poverty, labour abuses and deforestation in cocoa - growing communities.
According to Turnaround's research, many
of the behavior - management
challenges that educators in high -
poverty schools
face are due to the combustible combination, in the classroom,
of two cohorts
of students.
Find out more about the energy
challenge and how National Grid is helping find solutions to some
of the
challenges we
face at www.nationalgridconnecting.com The National Grid Energy Efficiency Innovation Award scheme was launched across National Grid's four gas distribution networks and provided a # 400k fund to support major innovations to tackle fuel
poverty and deliver energy efficiency solutions in communities, with five agencies in total receiving awards.
Shadow chief secretary to the treasury, Phil Hammond, said: «This shows the scale
of the
challenge that the Government
faces in attempting to meet its target
of halving child
poverty by 2010 - and it exposes the fundamental failings
of Gordon Brown's approach, which has been to tackle the symptoms
of poverty instead
of its causes.»
Relations with the EU We agree that the British Government will be a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners, with the goal
of ensuring that all the nations
of Europe are equipped to
face the
challenges of the 21st century: global competitiveness, global warming and global
poverty.
We agree that the British Government will be a positive participant in the European Union, playing a strong and positive role with our partners, with the goal
of ensuring that all the nations
of Europe are equipped to
face the
challenges of the 21st century: global competitiveness, global warming and global
poverty.
Children from the high
poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188
faced a number
of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.
With the exception
of a few highly affluent states in the Persian Gulf, these dryland countries
face severe and intensifying
challenges, including frequent and deadly droughts, encroaching deserts, burgeoning populations and extreme
poverty.
Enabling the poor to be resilient in the
face of challenges like climate change may require a fundamental rethinking
of the methods used to address both
poverty and global warming.
These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half
of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high -
poverty districts
face greater
challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's
poverty rate.
Regardless
of whether Title I remains in its traditional form or is converted in some part to vouchers, districts will
face major
challenges allocating resources based on individual student economic status as community eligibility for free lunch eliminates the incentive for individual students to report their
poverty status.
These folks are saying that there's basically nothing schools can do in the
face of America's growing
poverty and that schools are doing the best they can, given their
challenges.
Before stepping down as secretary, she told Virginia's General Assembly that the «trifecta»
of challenges facing Virginia public education are rising
poverty rates, higher achievement expectations, and decreased levels
of funding.
According to a new report, these teachers — while remarkably motivated by the
challenge at hand — need and want school - wide, institutionalized supports in order to succeed in the
face of the uncertainties that
poverty brings.
«My students
face daily the
challenges of poverty,
of immigration,
of language barriers,
of an oppressive and racist society,» says Stocklin, «and yet they still consistently outperform the global mean on every type
of essay on the AP English Language exam.
«Urban schools are
faced with huge
challenges, some
of which are simply related to concentrated
poverty, and so many kids are coming to school with unmet needs,» said Pedro Noguera, a professor
of education at New York University.
Yet such efforts seldom take full account
of the intellectual
challenges that graduates
face in college courses and in jobs that can keep families out
of poverty.
CPS
faces the
challenges of high student
poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some
of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.
«Rural schools
face many
of the same
challenges as their urban counterparts — high
poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director
of the Center for Public Education.
When Ms. Reed took the reins
of the school system in 2005 after earning her doctorate, one
of the first actions she took was to give teachers and principals training on the effects
of poverty on children so that they could better understand some
of the
challenges their students
face in learning.
The school psychologist and social worker chose a book about a youngster who demonstrated resilience in the
face of such
challenges as
poverty, foster care, or disability.
Faced with the
challenge of successfully serving students living in high
poverty, LaVergne High School (LHS) sought out best practices from across the nation and molded them to create highly effective schoolwide programs.
She began as a teacher at the ground level
of one
of the country's most economically and demographically
challenging inner city populations, the North Side
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she
faced what so many teachers
face: high class numbers, and needing to support learning, emotional and physical needs
of a multilingual population
of students in
poverty while achieving state and district test score goals.
«When you consider the changing
face of America and all the
challenges we have,
poverty and other issues, yet we are educating more students to a higher level than ever.
«Many
of our students are
facing family
challenges both from generational oppression and
poverty that affect behavior in a way that a traditional classroom can not address alone.»
According to a new report, most teachers in urban, high -
poverty schools are remarkably motivated to meet the
challenges at hand, but they need and want schoolwide, principal - led supports in order to succeed in the
face of the uncertainties that economic privation brings.
I believe Congress and the state
of California need to take a hard look at the
challenges that high
poverty districts like Oakland
face, because our District is hardly unique.
For Bloomfield, New London and Windham, three towns whose children
face some
of the greatest educational
challenges, including
poverty and language barriers, the decision was simply to stop teaching and keep testing from March till the end
of the year.
Some see high -
poverty schools as more difficult because many students come to school already behind academically and
facing serious
challenges in their lives, many
of which are beyond a teacher's control.
According to the Education Commission
of the States, urban, rural, high -
poverty, high - minority, and low - achieving schools
face the most persistent staffing
challenges.
The
challenges facing rural schools are staggering — concentrated
poverty, inadequate access to health care services, early childhood education and after - school programs, ballooning class size, high transportation costs, teacher shortages, and lack
of broadband access.
Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the
challenges they
face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers
of English Language Learners and students living in
poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]
High -
poverty and high - minority schools do not seem to
face greater
challenges than other kinds
of schools.
Removing ineffective teachers without developing an expanded pool
of effective teachers to replace them is unlikely to deliver desired improvements in education, particularly in high
poverty schools which already
face staffing
challenges.
For us,
poverty is not an «excuse,» but part
of an honest assessment
of the
challenges our schools
face.
Nowhere, including here in Connecticut, do they talk about tackling the terrible growth
of child
poverty that is destroying our society or the
challenges faced by children who require special education services or need help with their English language capabilities.
The School Improvement Grant program attempts to accomplish what previous reform efforts have failed to do: make a real difference for children
facing the dire
challenges of poverty, such as unstable housing, neighborhood violence and parents with limited education.
Low - income students
of color make up the majority
of classrooms in American public schools, and research shows that the
challenges they
face —
poverty, homelessness, or hunger — have directly influenced their level
of academic success.
The truth is that the real barriers to educational achievement are primarily due to
poverty, language barriers and unmet special education needs and a look at the tables below reveal just how the charter schools are able to corrupt their test results by refusing to take their fair share
of the students who
face the greatest
challenges.
This clinic will highlight the
challenges high
poverty schools are
facing as they try to meet the needs
of special education students as well as provide attendees with key strategies for meeting the needs
of these students.
At the ASPCA, we call it Cruelty Intervention Advocacy (CIA), a holistic intervention approach that takes into account how the societal
challenges pet owners often
face — including
poverty, housing restrictions, lack
of transportation, and limited resources — profoundly affect the animals under their care.
Many
of the
challenges that we
face (hunger, severe
poverty, energy, food, carbon emissions) are seemingly intractable.