Sentences with phrase «for educational failure»

For nearly 30 years, the Center for Schools and Communities (CSC) has built capacity in professionals, strengthened organizational systems and transformed lives by reducing academic barriers that exist for students who are at - risk for educational failure.

Sir Michael, the head of education watchdog, Ofsted has also claimed poverty is too often used as an excuse for educational failure among white working - class families.

«And you are frustrated when teachers alone are blamed for educational failures that have roots in broken families, unsafe communities, misguided reforms, and underfunded school systems,» he wrote in the letter, published on the Education Week and Education Department websites.

From Bill Gates and Eli Broad to Michelle Rhee and now Tony Smith, these self - proclaimed education «reformers» are short on education experience and long on placing the blame for educational failures where it doesn't belong.

Not exact matches

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

And they even accentuate the failure of human community for those who do not «fit» the economic, educational, racial or sexual mold that the churches still project.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

Hats off to Elizabeth Truss for her riposte to the collection of early years specialists, academics and pundits who have tried yet again to persuade us that the root cause of educational failure is too early a start to school.

As Ms Truss points out, the seeds of educational failure for poor children are sown early, and the later education starts, the more they will lose out.

In most cases the business won't succeed, they will call it a failure, write a blog post on how educational failure is, fill in for bankruptcy and move on the next adventure.

«A thoughtful approach to implementing requirements for pregnant teens would be essential so that the consequences for failure to meet the requirements do not undercut their intended health and educational benefits,» Clark says.

About XPRIZE: XPRIZE is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible.

What had been conceived as an educational melting pot had for many become a cauldron of educational failure.

The failures are the failures of adults who are not providing the kind of educational opportunities that these kids deserve,» said Professor David Gergen in the opening remarks of «Realizing Educational Opportunity for All,» the March 11 forum held at the Harvard Kennedy School.

This is not done as a matter of scholarly caution, but rather to preempt the charge that he is making too much of his thesis and thereby discounting other explanations for the educational, and subsequent occupational and economic, failure of so many American children.

But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.

It was the direct result of the competitive pressure infused into a system that had long — and incorrectly — accepted poverty as an excuse for failure, and took the task seriously of reinventing all educational offerings with rich and varied new approaches and content to drive them.

To what extent does the Career Academy approach change educational, employment, and youth development outcomes for students at greater or lesser risk of school failure?

By identifying what works, what doesn't, and why, we aim to improve educational outcomes for all students, particularly those at risk of failure.

Two were shut down in midstream — one for health and safety concerns, another for financial shortcomings — while four were denied renewal of their charters, for reasons ranging from failure to meet the 25 - student enrollment threshold to financial weakness to an inability to satisfy the local school board that the school could meet its educational goals.

On the other hand, failure to acquire basic literacy skills in the early years of schooling too often leads to disappointment, disengagement from the educational process, and drastically lower expectations for success beyond school.

«I hope we can follow the schools that are potentially at risk very closely,» said Cobey of the prospective charters, noting recent failures of charter schools that have left families scrambling to find appropriate educational options for their children.

More people to understand the consequences of inaction especially for low - income urban youth who are hit hard by our failure to provide every student with an excellent educational experience.

Given persistent disparities in educational achievement and high school retention, there is an urgent need to understand processes that promote high school success in adolescents at risk for academic failure.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

It would be premature to proclaim the Louisiana program an educational market failure based on these initial data, particularly given that researchers have yet to untangle the reasons for these findings, and it may turn out that some or all of the causes can be remedied.

Not only have multiple Department of Education (USED) studies concluded that the program has failed to improve educational outcomes for participating students, but two U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports have also identified its repeated management and accountability failures.»

I'm not going to even touch upon the failure rates for kids who have special educational needs or might not even be able to read the language the test is given in because it's too disgusting to even consider!

Otherwise, the new law gives back to the states the control over setting educational objectives and deciding how to hold students, teachers, schools, and districts accountable for failure to reach them.

«You've found that our educational system is in the grip of a crisis caused by low standards, lack of purpose, ineffective use of resources, and a failure to challenge students to push performance to the boundaries of individual ability — and that is to strive for excellence.»

If we accept the premise that student - centered learning can be a highly effective strategy for many kinds of classrooms and school populations, how can we ensure it is implemented effectively, with intelligence, and without the rigid dogma that so often leads to the failure of so many sweeping educational reforms?

The article conveniently overlooks that fact that the charter school industry fails to provide equal educational opportunities for children who require special education services, those who aren't fluent in the English Language and those who are forced out of charter schools for failure to survive the abusive disciplinary policies.

School - related problems such as academic failure, low educational aspirations, negative labeling, and trouble at school are key risk factors for gang joining among girls, and these may be more influential for them than for boys (Peterson, 2012; Thornberry, et al., 2003).

This appeal requires us to refine our definition of the circumstances in which a disabled student must exhaust her administrative remedies before suing a school district for its alleged failure to provide appropriate educational services.

These issues raise questions about how to ensure that private schools receiving taxpayer funds will provide high quality educational experiences ad be accountable for both their successes and failures.

Authors Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling - Hammond, and Diane Friedlaender describe the obstacles that prevent schools from delivering high - quality instruction; examine educational models, structures, and practices that facilitate deeper learning; and take a systemic perspective to consider how policy, practice, and research can be aligned to support the development of pedagogy for deeper learning in schools serving students who have been placed at risk of failure.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

He will «hold our schools and educational professionals responsible for failure, and we will use our power under the teachers» contract, and other means, to do it.»

It is a failure of our educational system that in one of the richest nations on earth that 41 % of us have no more than $ 500 saved for emergencies.

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For the past several years, a lack of fiscal restraint, conflicts of interest and a failure of educational vision banished Peter Cooper and his spirit from the school he founded.

In 1967, Beuys helped to establish the German Student Party in an effort to promote peaceful protest.37 Posed on the precipice of the great cultural upheaval of the 1968 student revolts — which called for the reform of educational institutions while taking a critical position toward the Vietnam War, the governing parties, and Germany's failure to confront its own past — Beuys's engagement with the German Student Party demonstrates his increasingly active engagement in the political sphere.

Firstly, mitigation practices may not be implemented for economic reasons (e.g., market failures, need for capital investment to realize recurrent savings), or a range of factors including risk ‐ related, political / bureaucratic, logistical, and educational / societal barriers.

In Green v. Law Society of Manitoba, the majority of the Supreme Court found that a lawyer's failure to comply with the society's educational rules provided «clear justification for the Law Society to impose a temporary suspension,» Justice Richard Wagner wrote for the majority.

While the Court understands that counsel for the Defendant is a law professor, and that he believes this case serves an important educational function, counsel must also understand that he represents a client in this litigation — a client whose case may well be undermined by the filing of frivolous motions and the failure to comply with the Rules.

Sub-optimal parenting is a common risk factor for deleterious social educational and health outcomes, increasing the risk of educational failure, delinquency, crime and violence, child and adolescent mental health problems, common mental disorders in adulthood, drug and alcohol misuse and teenage pregnancy.

RESULTS: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that long - term success (at least 5 % weight reduction by the 1 - year follow - up) versus failure (dropping out or less weight reduction) was significantly predicted by the set of psychosocial variables (family adversity, maternal depression, and attachment insecurity) when we controlled for familial obesity, preintervention overweight, age, and gender of the index child and parental educational level.

Vice-President Dr. Chantal Clot - Grangeat, Chambéry (France), stated, «Our aim is to find solutions for reducing the problems of children known to arise from family breakdown, such as diminished self - esteem, depression, and possible parental alienation, as well as educational failure, substance abuse, and trouble with the law.»

08/23/16: Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support / U.S. v. Georgia (N.D. Ga. 2016): The United States filed a lawsuit against the State of Georgia in federal district court to remedy violations of the ADA pertaining to the State's failure to provide thousands of public school students with behavior - related disabilities with appropriate mental health and therapeutic educational services and supports in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.

Parent - delivered compensatory education for children at risk of educational failure: Improving the academic and self - regulatory skills of a Sure Start preschool sample