Sentences with phrase «failure for students»

«Overreliance on testing has been a failure for our students.

This book offers educators a deeper awareness of the role they play in breaking the cycle of failure for students who are unsuccessful in school.

Any school closing, albeit traditional public school or a charter school, is a failure for students and families.

Common Elements of Effective Schools Education World explores the strategies educators at KIPP Academy Charter School, Mother Hale Academy, and Crossroads School are using to break the cycle of failure for students living in some of New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Education World explores the strategies educators at KIPP Academy Charter School, Mother Hale Academy, and Crossroads School are using to break the cycle of failure for students living in some of New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

An accommodation, such as extended time, can be the bridge between success and failure for a student with dyslexia — the critical difference that levels the playing field.

Not exact matches

Ponzo believes business schools must prepare students for the hard truth that entrepreneurship is tough, and failure is always a looming possibility.

Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

After one semester, the failure rate for students in the flipped classroom dropped to just 9 percent.

Without having a schedule to help your student succeed, you are setting them up for failure.

The failure to find an adequate solution has more than anything else prevented for a long time a fruitful cooperation between students of sociology and of religion.

I am aware, by repute, of a secular — minded teacher who penalized an orthodox Jewish student for her insistence on referring to the deity as G — d, and her failure to spell the name properly.

Very likely, failure by faculty members really to grasp this obvious truth is the occasion for much student discontent today.

For me they include drop - outs who have dropped back into life, students who were almost total failures in their first years of study who, given another chance, made good.

Speaking to Princeton students, the late Adlai E. Stevenson once declared: «What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas... but of people, places, actions — a knowledge not gained... by words, but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love — the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little reverence for the things you can not see.»

If a college professor has the same student in his class for 37 years, that professor is a failure.

I've been thinking a lot about this recently — I feel like I am setting my students up for «failure», since I know that the things in the video's I show are not very realistic or possible in the hospitals in our state / area.

The project provides design process opportunities for students in all grades to use creativity and inventive thinking to build prototypes, explore questions, experience failure and successes and bounce ideas off each other.

Dealing with failure productively might have a lot to do with success in learning, according to Williamstown Mass. mathematics professor Edward Burger whose unconventional approach to student failure is producing very successful long - term results for his students.

The following statement can be attributed to Ian Rosenblum, Executive Director of The Education Trust — New York: «While the Trump Administration's failure to protect students» civil rights is shameful, we are grateful to the New York State Education Department and Board of Regents for providing state leadership on this crucial issue.

However, it was the Liberal Democrats» failure to honour the manifesto pledge for England to «Scrap unfair university tuition fees for all students taking their first degree, including those studying part - time, saving them over # 10,000 each» which has proven to be the single most damaging consequence of coalition.

The New York State Senate's failure to act on the issue of school governance in New York City is cause for great concern for parents, students and those of us at the UFT.

The state's systemic failure to provide enough resources for all of its students and to do so equitably — while giving all teachers the tools and support they need — is the real crisis and the one our governor is trying to sweep under the rug,» NYSUT President Karen Magee said.

Public Advocate Letitia James has sued the New York City Education Department, saying a $ 130 million computer system meant to track services for students with disabilities was a failure.

No fewer than 408 students of the University of Ibadan have been asked to withdraw from the university for failure to meet the minimum academic requirements...

She said it's used by the» «no excuses» reformers» who are making teachers the scapegoats for larger societal causes of student failure.

Speaking further, Bichi who said one of the factors responsible for the mass failure, examination malpractices and cultism in Nigerian schools from primary to tertiary level is the misplacement of priorities by the governments, parents, teachers and students blamed the problems on the absence of Social Workers who can help to discover students» potentials and guide them based on their uniqueness.

It is just like a student, instead of reading and preparing for his exams, he wants to submit his papers without writing any exam, which can only guarantee failure.»

Andrew Gilligan notes this morning that the Federation of Student Islamic Societies has been condemned by Theresa May and Nick Clegg for its failure to «fully challenge terrorist and extremist ideology».

Testifying at a City Council hearing, UFT President Michael Mulgrew on March 1 took the Department of Education to task for its failure to claim more than $ 500 million in Medicaid reimbursements for services provided to students with special needs each year.

Education officials predicted students» proficiency scores would drop, prompting parents to complain their children were being set up for failure.

Although the segregation, and related performance gaps, are not unique to Erie County, a recent report by the Civil Rights Project put the area in the top 3 percent of the country for its failure to integrate students.

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, has backed calls for an enquiry into the recent mass failure of students at the Bar exams.

University of Vermont students and Black Lives Matter activists are demanding top administrators resign over the college's failure to meet student demands for diversity initiatives, including the installation of BLM flags on campus.

On an additional project with former MIT graduate student Eric Grovender, Ameer co-developed a cartridge filter that purifies blood, «based on protein and cell engineering,» for those suffering from chronic kidney failure.

For universities, a major benefit of active learning is lower failure rates and possible increased retention of science students, including underrepresented minorities and students with economic disadvantages.

Now, after 13 years, failure rates are down, attendance is up, 800 students a year experience the TEAL approach to physics, and Beal has received national recognition for his work (bit.ly / 1eV4L9d).

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»

The funding scheme leaves no time for failure, so Machesky often starts Ph.D. students on several experiments, saying, «Some are safe, so that even if the results are negative, we can probably publish them.»

If the failure rates of 34 percent for lecturing and 22 percent in classes with some active learning were applied to the 7 million U.S. undergraduates who say they want to pursue STEM majors, some 2.38 million students would fail lecture - style courses vs. 1.54 million with active learning.

The findings indicate a critical need for more research to determine ways to streamline and intensify instruction for these students, said Allor, whose research focuses on preventing reading failure among struggling readers.

«Student - athletes face pressure, and there is lot of opportunity for failure, which can be a key component of depression,» he said.

He moved to America for his postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, where he met «the most important person for my scientific development,» Dr. Marc Kirschner, who described his former student as having «a competitive spirit toward solving the mysteries of science that does not contemplate failure to solve a problem.»

As a medical student in 1950 one of my patients was a boy of my age dying of kidney failure and I was instructed to make him comfortable for he would be dead in two weeks.

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The ability to stretch (both your mind and muscle), see perceived failures and mistakes as opportunities for success, the ability to laugh at yourself and to always be learning are just a few of the key skills that Gary imparts on his students and peers.

With his generous encouragement for learning from failure, he ratchets up his students» curiosity for process solutions.

Processing failure with your students turns a moment of fear into an opportunity for learning in a safe place.

For instance, if only 50 percent of a state's 4th graders are proficient by the nationally determined NAEP standard, but the state claims proficiency for 80 percent, then the state should be given an F for its failure to establish high expectations for its studenFor instance, if only 50 percent of a state's 4th graders are proficient by the nationally determined NAEP standard, but the state claims proficiency for 80 percent, then the state should be given an F for its failure to establish high expectations for its studenfor 80 percent, then the state should be given an F for its failure to establish high expectations for its studenfor its failure to establish high expectations for its studenfor its students.

When students move on to harder topics, they continue to accumulate gaps in their knowledge — a setup for failure in the later grades or collegiate years.