Sentences with phrase «grapple with tough questions»

At the same time, superintendents grapple with tough questions about the best use of resources, how to navigate union and school board politics, and how to sustain capacity during leadership transitions.

Educators in the 61,000 - student district must now grapple with a tough question: How will they ensure the integration and education of minority children...

As I grappled with the tough questions she posed, she was busy capturing the conclusions I would reach and pushing for introspection when I was tenuous.

Not exact matches

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

Feigenberg offers guidelines for how parents and educators can help kids and teens grapple with these and other tough questions they face.

The work of Faculty members teaching these subjects, and grappling routinely with tough questioning by students as well as seminar panels, lends itself to testimony before juries and to bench trials.

Contemporary artists grapple with the complex issues of our time, ask tough questions, and make works that delight, amaze and sometimes unsettle audiences worldwide.

These questions set up Tough's discussion of early childhood experiences as he grappled with a pressing issue: the gap in school and life success between low - and high - income youngsters and how effective early childhood interventions decrease this gap.

It's grappling with the same tough questions, but much more is possible on the other side of that reconceptualization.