Sentences with phrase «face failures in school»

While all children invariably face failures in school, girls are uniquely socialized to see failures as evidence of inaptitude.

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In fact, I believe that you are not truly a leader until you have failed, faced down that failure and found a way to overcome it — like I did after I flunked out of prep school.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, a district as large as ours (300 schools) faces unique challenges in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.

It is important to remember that struggling readers face failure almost every day in school when they are faced with reading tasks.

As the New York Times reported when Anderson took over, in June of 2011, «Cami Anderson faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

According to the Times, Cami Anderson, all of 39 years old, «faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system [Newark] that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

The continuing failure of the Chicago Public Schools sparked a complete about - face in 1995, when Mayor Richard Daley took control of the system.

Now, rather than being able hide from their about - face on the critical issue of school funding, Governor Malloy and Attorney General Jepsen will be facing a court trial on Malloy's failure to deal with Connecticut's unconstitutional school funding system right in the middle of the election.

If students on any path were free to access specialist teaching in other institutions, many of the issues relating to the consequences of Raising the Participation Age (RPA)-- such as colleges accusing schools of rejecting GCSE «failures» and the challenge faced by further education teachers to deliver results in GCSE English and maths effectively — could be significantly reduced.

Because reading is key to success in school, poor readers face a trajectory of failure and decreasing motivation: Students who are not at least moderately fluent in reading by 3rd grade are unlikely to graduate from high school (Slavin, Karweit, Wasik, Madden, & Dolan, 1994).

Under ESSA, no schools will be considered failures overall, but schools still will face challenges in getting various student groups to proficiency.

Pedro Noguera (2007) articulates the value of tapping the wisdom of students and their families in this way: «Solutions to some of the problems facing our nation's high schools may not be as out of reach as they have seemed, particularly if we have the wisdom and courage to listen to those who bear the brunt of our schools» failures» (p. 206).

Those who don't learn to read well in these early years usually face a school trajectory of failure that includes poorer overall learning and poorer self - esteem, as well as a greater chance of severe behavioural problems.

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