Sentences with phrase «for poor school performance»

The simple solution for both poor school performance and unsafe school buildings is VOUCHERS.

If board members and potential challengers anticipate that voters will punish incumbents for poor school performance, declining test scores may lead board members to retire rather than endure defeat.

Alternately, the parent may blame the child for his poor school performance and believe the problem is the child's laziness or lack of effort.

Research consistently indicates that children with more developed executive function skills prior to kindergarten experience greater school success.6, 7 For academic achievement, these skills may scaffold language and mathematic success.12 In fact, in a low - income sample of children, researchers have found that executive function skills prior to kindergarten predict growth in both numeracy and literacy skills across the kindergarten year.12 A successful transition to school may be particularly critical for children who have faced high levels of adversity and may be at risk for poorer school performance.

Not exact matches

Poor performance in the School of Communion translates into failure in the classroom and trouble at work — places where the virtues gained in family life are essential for success.

For example iron deficiency is associated with poor school performance, eating disorders, obesity, and dental caries.

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.»

The DOE had cited poor academic performance as its reason for proposing to trim grades from Wadleigh, which was designated as a Renewal School in 2015.

Mr Frank Yeboah, Assemblyman for Lower Bobikuma, said the poor performance of BECE could be attributed to poor preparations towards the examinations by various schools.

A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19 schools it wanted to close for poor performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to improve the educational system.

A 32 - year - old teacher's vision for a Bronx elementary school is improving the performance of some of the poorest students in New York City.

Under the old structure, power was so dispersed — among the mayor, the Board of Education, the chancellor and the community school boards — that it was hard to know whom to blame for the poor performance of many of the city's schools.

Last year the union was successful in halting the shuttering of 19 schools the city tried to close for poor performance.

Several other schools are also being shut down for poor performance in this latest round of cuts.

So there's the dilemma: New York's schools are wealthy beyond reason in a state otherwise strapped for public resources — and overall classroom performance is embarrassingly poor.

The high economic and social costs of early mental illness compound as children get older; for example, adjustment disorders in childhood are associated with poor school performance and increased reliance on social welfare, Heinmeuller says.

We would however need to know more to identify helpful interventions — for example, is school failure in itself a risk factor, or is poor performance rather an indicator of vulnerability?»

Teaching children skills such as how to cope with bullying at school, poor performance or problems with their parents, for example, in the framework of general cognitive preventative treatment and resilience training in school, may help children to better deal with emotional turmoil and challenging situations during adolescence.

«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

For 30 years it has been known there is a poor correlation between performance at school and higher education.

Previous studies have found a link between bullying and a higher risk of mental health problems during childhood, such as low self - esteem, poor school performance, depression and an increased risk for suicide.

Untreated ADHD can be harmful in itself, leading to poor performance in school and increasing adolescents» risk for harmful behavior such as reckless driving, unsafe sexual practices, and substance abuse.

Co-occurring conditions Your child should be evaluated for co-occurring conditions, like learning disabilities, sensory integration problems, and other physical and mental disorders that may cause behavioral problems or poor school performance.

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

In his first quarterly column for Teacher, Andreas Schleicher, Director of the OECD's Directorate for Education and Skills explores the long - term consequences of students» poor performance and how this could lead to further disengagement from school.

What I found is that schools that exceed expectations — as well as those that are making significant improvement from a base of overall poor performance — engage in the extensive practice of six research - informed instructional strategies and develop a culture that communicates high expectations and support for all students.

The green paper suggested that there was «much more» that independent schools could be doing to improve education for young people from poorer backgrounds and suggested that if they did not meet new requirements set out by the government, such as sponsoring under - performing state schools and being responsible for their performance, then independent schools could have their charitable status taken away.

Douglas County lost its «accredited with distinction» status with the Colorado Department of Education, and 11 schools were put on turnaround plans for poor performance.

(In other words, the Colorado State Board of Education had shut down only one public school for poor performance over the preceding two decades.)

Poor performance at school has long - term consequences that are hard to compensate, both for individuals and nations.

It was the combination of a new market environment and effective responses from the public schools that simultaneously expanded choices for poor families and improved both choices and performance within the Milwaukee public schools.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

If the superintendents of failing school districts were as adept at fixing schools as they are at making excuses for their poor performance, America would have the best education system in the world.

In Ravenswood, California, the school district shuttered a Stanford - sponsored charter, allegedly for poor performance.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

While traditional schools are rarely closed for poor performance, charters live with a realistic threat of closure should their tests scores falter.

However, it is important to note that the complications associated with being a new school can not fully explain the poor average performance of charter schools: the negative effects of attending a charter school in North Carolina remain greater than.10 standard deviations in both subjects, even for schools that have been operating for five years (see Figure 3a and 3b).

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

A majority of parents and school officials believe that children who are troubled, whatever the cause, not only demonstrate poor academic performance and inappropriate behavior in school, but also adversely affect the learning opportunities for other children in the classroom.

Inspectors said trustees had «not held leaders to account for continued poor performance, nor kept sound oversight of the school's improvement and school finances».

School districts in Washington that show consistently poor performance should be subject to state takeover, monetary penalties, or other consequences, concludes a state panel established to devise a system of accountability for the state's schools.

Amid the shift in curricular emphasis, the personnel turnover, and the shift to Common Core - aligned tests, Douglas County lost its «accredited with distinction» status, and the number of schools on turnaround plans for poor performance went from zero to 11.

It may be the case, for example, that poor academic performance causes a student to choose to miss school, rather than the reverse.

So when Harlem Success Academy, a charter group in New York, proposed to take over P.S. 194's building after the school was shut down for poor performance, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the New York Civil Liberties Union took the obvious step: they filed a lawsuit claiming that the state pressed forward without proper consultation with local school boards.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

However, our analysis also revealed a group of other high schools that exhibited similarly poor performance and enrolled similarly low - achieving students — but were not selected for closure.

New means of accountability, such as the Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the IntSchool Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Intschool performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Internet.

Their highest priority is to ensure that there are no sanctions for poor performance, and above all that there is no weeding - out process by which the school system rids itself of mediocre or incompetent teachers.

A second hazard involves fairness to schools at risk of being sanctioned for poor performance: these schools can face longer odds if weather or other schedule disruptions limit school days.

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) has launched a new professional development platform for primary school teachers, in response to the results of research which shows that many teachers are getting little training in the area of nutrition; yet poor nutrition and an unhealthy lifestyle is detrimental to health and academic performance.