Sentences with phrase «for lack of achievement»

Although poverty can never be an excuse for lack of achievement, neither can its effects on student learning be ignored....

Not exact matches

As an international speaker and business coach, I was inspired to write this book when I saw that there was a lack of books written for millennials by a millennial on goal achievement and entrepreneurship.

It was in the mood of humble awareness of imperfection and lack of full achievement in Christian experience that Paul wrote, «Brethren, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.»

In France people seemed to be surprise by the lack of Wenger achievements recognition... Simple, they will tell you that for such a «massive» wage, he is doing nothing «impressive» and should have been sacked long time ago.

That stadium is Arsène Wenger's greatest achievement for Arsenal so I am not going to attribute our lack of trophies to it.

Young fathers frequently face family rejection, barriers to contact with child and mother, a lack of ways to contribute financially, and an inability to envision future achievements (for review see Guterman & Lee, 2005).

Fathers may be stung by their sons» lack of respect for their hard work and achievements.

Dropout from youth sport occurs for a variety of reasons, including personal factors such as lack of enjoyment or motivation, time constraints, pressure to perform, and low achievement orientation and organizational factors such as coaching issues, lack of playing time, and lack of opportunities to participate (22,45).

The statement added that the lack of free sanitary towels for schoolgirls «can impact negatively on the Free SHS programme,» explaining that: «As poor menstrual hygiene management can result in absenteeism, poor performance, hamper gender parity in education and the overall achievement of the Free Senior High School programme.»

Despite his achievements — laudable for a rookie once criticized for lack of executive experience — many Staten Islanders aren't happy with the mayor.

Last time, I talked about my fear of screwing up my life and how the lack of feedback from my advisor about progress, achievement, areas for improvement, and so on feeds into this fear.

«Although Anzman - Frasca and colleagues did not replicate previous findings that breakfast improved academic achievement, this should not be interpreted as a lack of benefit for breakfast programs.

Sadly, the game suffers from a lack of replay outside of completing challenges and completing the campaign for the trophies / achievements.

Even with Max Von Sydow in the fold (Non ho sonno), the pictures post-Tenebre are cheap auto - knockoffs devoid of innovation and lacking the amazingly imaginative gore that marked Argento's early gialli, the archetypal resonance of his supernaturals, or the transcendent, sometimes sublime lawlessness of his hybrids (like Suspiria, for instance, still a towering achievement).

In what could be a good omen for Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar and for us to finally stop hearing about Leonardo DiCaprio's lack of Oscars, the voters for the Directors Guild Of America Awards were impressed enough by The Revenant to give it the Outstanding Directorial Achievement award — the DGA's top.of Oscars, the voters for the Directors Guild Of America Awards were impressed enough by The Revenant to give it the Outstanding Directorial Achievement award — the DGA's top.Of America Awards were impressed enough by The Revenant to give it the Outstanding Directorial Achievement award — the DGA's top...

The lack of additional difficulties hurts replay value, although there are Trophies / Steam Achievements for playing as unlockable characters.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Mini-Series Scott Frank — Godless Barry Levinson — The Wizard of Lies Kyra Sedgwick — Story of a Girl Jean - Marc Valée — Big Little Lies George C. Wolfe — The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The film was lauded for all its technical achievements and continuously hated for its lack of original storytelling.

As educators search for ways to boost perennially low levels of student achievement, many are zeroing in on what they consider a root cause of poor performance: the lack of students» motivation to learn.

The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

In «New Kids on the Block,» (research), Sanbonmatsu, Kling, Duncan, and Brooks - Gunn report the findings of their MTO study and offer several possible explanations for the program's lack of overall positive effects on academic achievement.

People often blame poverty, students, and parents» lack of interest for the achievement gap that exists between white and non-white students.

The lack of relationship between the judged quality of state standards and student achievement should raise a number of concerns for this Council.

Or there may be a third confounding factor that causes both, such as lack of sleep that causes a student both to miss his bus in the morning, hence leading to low attendance, and to struggle to focus for exams, hence leading to low achievement.

This issue seems to have disappeared from the national debate after the Parents Involved Supreme Court decision in 2007, but I think the lack of diversity in schools today is a powerful driver of the achievement gap and carries adverse future implications for our society and citizenry.

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

The article really provides good for thought - as a head of the school I am trying all that is possible to ensure well - being of the Teachers as student achievement is dependent on it, strategies like talent clubs, gettogethers pdp, celebrations, appreciation, despite all this I feel something is lacking, I am not 100 percent satisfied with the kind of work from the teachers as well as the students.

This lack of a strong role for measured characteristics motivates interest in unmeasured characteristics of teachers that have a causal effect on academic achievement.

I also expressed concern that test - score scales lack an essential property for comparing test - score gains: an interval of, say, 50 points at one point on the scale can not be assumed to represent the same achievement growth as a 50 - point interval elsewhere on the scale.

We know that the current «drill and kill» testing regime, school closures, privatization, the criminalization of students of color, and the unconscionable lack of resources for schools in poor communities in particular, create and exacerbate achievement gaps between rich and poor.

The School Improvement Plans for Academic Achievement (SIPAA) at these two schools have lacked the budgetary resources to bridge the achievement gap of our student pAchievement (SIPAA) at these two schools have lacked the budgetary resources to bridge the achievement gap of our student pachievement gap of our student populations.

Regardless of whether one feels that a general lack of positive outcomes tends to discredit these programs, one can not overlook the fact that the reports about their effectiveness consistently identify three specific opportunities to increase reading achievement: an increased availability of high interest books, sustained wide area reading, and opportunities for students to share their reading experiences with others (Eriksson, 2002; Krashen, 2002).

In addition to this lack of major success in raising student achievement, these approaches help only a small percentage of students and thereby do not further the goal of a good education for all students.

An AFT report «Passing on Failure» delineates several reasons for student failure: «immaturity, weak curriculum and instruction, excessive absenteeism, lack of effort, failure of teachers and administrators as well as parents to use practices that promote high achievement, and failure due to a combination of factors listed above.»

School - level data were downloaded from the California Department of Education, California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) website.6 The following were dropped: schools with total enrollment of fewer than 50 students, special education schools, continuation high schools, schools in juvenile delinquency facilities, alternative schools, community day schools, and schools lacking a full panel of data for 2013 - 2015.

Student achievement, particularly in math and science, is crucial to our country's capacity for innovation and future economic growth, yet a growing number of today's students lack foundational knowledge and skills in these subjects.

Then, tossing in some class warfare for flavor, he added that the judge failed to take into consideration «the impact of a severe lack of funding and growth in poverty which are some of the most important factors impacting student achievement.»

Further, it is entirely clear that increasing numbers of poor children, lacking adequate nutrition, housing and health care, often with overworked parent (s), are a major reason for any lack of academic achievement — but the Bush approach will do nothing about these.

Noting the lack of rigorous analysis of the role principals play in determining student outcomes, the study's authors measure how average gains in achievement, adjusted for individual student and school characteristics, differ across principals - both in different schools and in the same school at different points in time.

The Changing Landscape of School Leadership: Recalibrating the School Principalship By M. Scott Norton «Achievement, servicing special needs, implementing change without funding, addressing increasing misbehavior, cultivating a learning climate, and compensating for a lack of role preparation are several areas Norton highlights as significant contributors to a growing list of challenges that principals face.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

This lack of transparency and clarity makes the PARCC Math achievement data for middle school grade - level Math tests a potentially misleading statistic to share.

As it is now apparent, the grounds for much of this opposition and subsequent criticism of TEKS — its vagueness, subjectivity, lack of specificity of objective knowledge, overlap from grade to grade, and lack of sufficient rigor — seem to have been borne out by our experience in student achievement in the ensuing ten years of its use.

Previously, Rhee has criticized California's lack of a state law requiring the use of student achievement in measuring teachers, an issue that played a part in the Obama Administration's recent rejection of a waiver request for California.

But the school's Ofsted report criticises the school for under - achievement, lack of progress, inexperienced governors and an «unrealistic» view of the school among leaders.

Again, those who were in the classroom in the 1970s either as teacher or student will remember the frustration with the lack of knowledge about which set of skills in which sequence would lead to reading achievement for all.

While the authors note a lack of substantial evidence of positive effectives of Linked Learning on college enrollment or completion, they also describe several studies that have found positive results on high school student achievement and argue that blending academic work with career technical education (CTE) could make college an option for more students.

Young teachers today say that they are less motivated than previous generations by a career in which their work responsibilities do not change over the course of their employment.16 Moreover, young teachers want to receive frequent feedback on their teaching, and they want to be rewarded for proving their ability to help students learn.17 Career pathways can provide young teachers with the feedback and mentorship that they report are lacking.18 Additional pathways can provide opportunities for these teachers to grow and excel, which is critical in order to increase student achievement and retain great teachers.

Exclusion factors such as mental retardation, sensory deficits, serious emotional disturbance, language minority children (where lack of proficiency in English accounts for measured achievement deficits), and lack of opportunity to learn should be considered.

The seeming contradiction between the lack of persistence of value - added on achievement test scores and the significant impacts on adult outcomes frames an important puzzle for future research.