Sentences with phrase «for aggressive students»

Schools should teach conflict resolution skills to their youngest students, create opportunities for aggressive students to mimic the behavior of prosocial students, give students ownership of the classroom rules, and enable students to practice these skills during simulated disputes.

Obtain in - school counseling for an aggressive student.

Not exact matches

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

«College Kickoff» is one of many aggressive initiatives aimed at preparing students for college and career options beyond high school.

«In terms of the food security of the first food, the global breastfeeding movement continues to call for greater vigilance around the more aggressive marketing of baby and toddler foods, using new promotional avenues on the internet, especially social networking, via mothers» clubs, educational foundations targeting students, and as business interest NGOs etc..

These threats were an aggressive assault on freedom of speech and the fact that they led to the cancellation of our talk was severely disappointing for all of the religious and non religious students in the room who wanted to engage in debate.»

New York's Economic State Development agency revealed that it has tapped a $ 50 million fund designed to promote job growth and tourism to pay for an aggressive marketing campaign boosting Cuomo's program to extend free tuition to middle - class students enrolling at public colleges.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

The unions» petition follows their aggressive push for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

On Saturday, February 11, VID put together a solid group of supporters for the Rally Opposing the NYU2031 Plan, NYU's aggressive, tower - heavy 20 - year construction proposal to jam our low - rise community with structures of inappropriate size, height and bulk (including a huge hotel), which will mean the takeover of public space and the influx of a concentration of more thousands of students, staff and faculty.

«Of the 211 student veterans who participated in our study, we heard the stories of 23 veterans who struggled with the aftermath of trauma exposure, and suffered from sleep disturbance, hypervigilance, irritable or aggressive behavior, and difficulty concentrating,» said Ann Cheney, an assistant professor in the Center for Healthy Communities in the School of Medicine and a coauthor on the study.

«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D. student in the biology department of Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.

States should insist that districts take aggressive action to turn around dropout factories and schools where the vast majority of students are demonstrably not on track for success.

His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.

An alliance between civil rights groups on the left and the business community on the right pushed for aggressive federal involvement to drive policies designed to aid disadvantaged students.

For some schools, less aggressive restructuring steps may be appropriate and may improve student achievement.

Six tips for dealing with an aggressive student.

The state's «aggressive agenda» would «strain the capacity of any state attempting to do so much for so many students in so many districts,» the reviewer continued, «but the applicant appears to have both the existing capacity and the political and bureaucratic will to re-organize and re-focus.»

«Schools have told me consistently that they see a dramatic decrease in peer - to - peer aggressive behavior within three to five weeks of implementing a school - wide behavior rubric, as young people get the message that discipline interventions for aggression will be inevitable, fair, and escalating for all students and in all areas of the school,» says Stan Davis, author of Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying.

Aggressive students present a significant challenge for teachers.

As Gelbach points out, «If a teacher handles [the problem] in an aggressive, confrontational kind of way, they are modeling behavior for the other 24 students in the class as much as they are handling the one student who has been misbehaving.»

The superintendent and chief technology information officer for the 215,000 - student Houston Independent School District have established a working relationship that balances an aggressive vision for digital innovation with a realistic sense of what schools can do with the resources they have.

Advocates for school integration — including parents, students and City Council members — are pressing the Department of Education to take a more aggressive approach to make schools welcoming to children of different races and ethnicities.

Higher education reformers are keen to find fixes for remedial education, some of them aggressive state policies, because students who are assigned to the courses are unlikely to make it to graduation.

Calling the program «possibly the largest, most aggressive overhaul of teacher induction in the country,» researchers at the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, praised the 1.1 million - student district for spending $ 36 million to put experienced teachers on the job as full - time mentors, able to give new teachers at least 1 1/4 hours a week of individual coaching.

Faced with these challenges, the administration has relaxed its aggressive timetables for states to begin evaluating all teachers based on objective measures of student learning, such as standardized test scores.

But Bennett has defended his aggressive push to transform Indiana schools, telling StateImpact he'd prefer to advocate for change now rather than wait for students to fail.

Additionally, Artemis Kolovos, a diverse learning teacher at Lyman A. Budlong Public School in Chicagoand an E4E - Chicago member, commended the House members who voted for HJR115 stating, «Students need to learn self - regulation and use calming strategies before feelings escalate into aggressive or self - harming behaviors.

«I'm concerned that states, with a combination of state politics and inertia, will not... do aggressive interventions for students in struggling schools,» said Chad Aldeman, a former federal education official who is now with Bellwether Education Partners, a Boston - based consulting firm.

As Richmond and Yatzko point out, there are dangers lurking in every direction — a lax, permissive approach to discipline can lead to chaos and can undermine learning, while an overly aggressive, zero - tolerance policy that results in frequent expulsions can have devastating and lasting effects for students, their families and the public school system itself.

By law, failure to make adequate progress in test scores for even one historically low - performing group — a single racial - ethnic category, low - income students, those in special education, or those with limited English proficiency — triggers a series of increasingly aggressive corrective actions.

ILTexas has an aggressive growth plan to accommodate for the high demand made known by wait lists numbers reaching more than 5,000 students in just its third year of operation.

Of course, students behave in aggressive or submissive ways for a variety of reasons that are not always easy to discern or manage.

In service of the goals of its benefactor, WILL has undertaken an aggressive campaign of actual and threatened litigation to ward off scrutiny of and crackdowns on voucher program abuses, to force taxpayers to underwrite transportation for private school voucher students and to advocate for further expansion of the voucher program in the media and with the release of pseudo-science.

Caputo - Pearl was one of the architects of the Initiative for the Schools LA Students Deserve, a resolution that called for UTLA to adopt a more aggressive approach toward advocacy.

The model of education is controversial and K12, Inc., in particular, has been criticized for aggressive pushes in other states to lobby state leaders and marketing efforts that bring in large numbers of students not well - suited to online learning.

With support from the Student Services Coordinator and in conjunction with the Center for Special Education set aggressive, measurable student goals and regularly evaluate student progress towards Student Services Coordinator and in conjunction with the Center for Special Education set aggressive, measurable student goals and regularly evaluate student progress towards student goals and regularly evaluate student progress towards student progress towards mastery

Students who attended regularly for two years showed improvements in work habits, task persistence, and social skills (such as the ability to refrain from aggressive behavior).

The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 («NCLB» or «the Act») defines an aggressive, ambitious and multi-faceted approach for increasing student achievement and closing the achievement gap.

(Utah) Chasing perhaps the nation's biggest prize in the linked - learning community, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has unveiled an aggressive plan to prepare high school students for high - paying jobs in the aerospace industry.

The federal government must be clearer about our national expectations for student outcomes, insist on realistic but aggressive state plans to meet them, allocate resources to level the playing field across states and districts, and require that states implement those plans well.

Based on more recent data, Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy speculated in 2005 that, because students across the income and ability spectrum can be shown to benefit from attending high - performing schools, aggressive efforts to homogenize schools» demographic profiles will likely hurt better - prepared students, with predicted declines for the highest - achieving students (who are now concentrated in high - income schools) exceeding the expected gains for low - income and minority students.

This plan should set meaningful, aggressive, and achievable goals for ensuring children are prepared for future success and explain how the state will hold schools and districts responsible for educating all students.

Identification of root causes for lack of student success and aggressive interventions to address areas of weakness must be implemented.

Previously, he was PI on federally funded grants on (a) aggressive behavior in classrooms, (b) cooperative learning strategies for students with EBD, and (c) educational programming for adolescents with EBD.

Now with this act in place, dollars have been allocated to states, districts, and schools, so they can be more aggressive in finding partners of like mission and mind to work together to support better outcomes for their students.

They acknowledge the challenges that must be addressed in creating political conditions to support new finance systems and call for an aggressive research and development agenda to guide the process of change with good evidence about what works to improve student learning.

According to reporting by The Tennessean, the state teachers» union contends it was those efforts that are responsible for students» improved performance on the assessment, rather than aggressive reforms put in place by Gov. Bill Haslam.

The research highlighted here illustrates that school turnaround is possible in the presence of a concerted strategy that incorporates evidenced - based best practices: Aggressive action on the part of school districts, resources and requirements, governance and staffing changes, data - driven decision making, and a focus on school culture and nonacademic supports for disadvantaged students.

Many states set a minimal pace of growth in student test scores for a school to be deemed proficient in the early years, followed by more aggressive growth standards later.