Sentences with phrase «harsh school discipline practices»

As you would expect, Eva Moskowitz didn't take kindly to the clarification issued by PBS yesterday about John Merrow's broadcast on the harsh school discipline practices of her Success Academy collection of charter schools.

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The move away from harsh, punitive, exclusionary (and, let's face it, ineffective) discipline practices in schools and districts across the country is a welcome wave of change.

Online toolkit for school superintendents and principals, teachers, parents, students, community leaders and organizations interested in learning about how to eliminate harsh, push - out discipline practices and put in place solutions that work for all students.

Guided by criteria developed with the input of hundreds of students across the city, the youth panelists provided formal feedback to the Boston School Committee on each candidate, evaluating them on their willingness to allow students to be involved in the decision - making process, their focus on equity in Boston schools, and their willingness to embrace and implement restorative justice practices to limit harsh school disciSchool Committee on each candidate, evaluating them on their willingness to allow students to be involved in the decision - making process, their focus on equity in Boston schools, and their willingness to embrace and implement restorative justice practices to limit harsh school discischool discipline.

BOSTON STUDENT VICTORIES From organizing thousands - strong school walk - outs to developing phone apps to combat harsh discipline practices, Boston students have been an inspiration this past year in the fight for the schools all our children deserve.

«As more states rate schools based on how many of their students are chronically absent,» she writes, «policymakers must consider harsh discipline practices, an issue at the fore in...

A new report from the UCLA Civil Rights Project criticizes charter schools for using overly harsh discipline practices at rates higher than other public schools.

The lack of diversity in the teaching profession, combined with these differing interpretations of student ability and behavior, may partially explain why students of color are suspended or expelled from all levels of school at disproportionate rates.23 Such harsh discipline practices place them at higher risk of subsequent academic disengagement and increase the probability that they will later drop out.24 While these mindsets may be unintentional, their prevalence greatly affects students» performance and behavior.

In this article, she presents statistics about the increase in school suspensions and student arrests and describes individual cases that demonstrate the senselessness of harsh discipline practices.

Yet, in our public schools serving students of color and low - income students, classrooms are overcrowded and lack adequate resources, students and teachers face degrading environments, and schools use harsh, punitive discipline practices that deny students the opportunity to learn.

Youth and community organizing efforts have been winning changes to harsh and discriminatory school discipline practices across the country.

PURE first brought Noble's harsh discipline practices to light after a parent at the school told us about how its discipline code had affected her son, and our Freedom of Information Act request revealed that Noble raked in nearly $ 200,000 in student fines that year.

Federal civil rights enforcement agencies should monitor charter schools closely for discipline disparities generated by harsh policies and practices.

The Suspension Spike, Changing the Discipline Culture in NYC's Middle Schools — Citing the efforts of multiple JFSF partners and allies, the Office of the NYC Comptroller urged middle schools to adopt restorative practices as an alternative to harsh discipline and stressing the need for support with high expectations and accountability in this Schools — Citing the efforts of multiple JFSF partners and allies, the Office of the NYC Comptroller urged middle schools to adopt restorative practices as an alternative to harsh discipline and stressing the need for support with high expectations and accountability in this schools to adopt restorative practices as an alternative to harsh discipline and stressing the need for support with high expectations and accountability in this report.

The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.

The move away from harsh, punitive, exclusionary (and, let's face it, ineffective) discipline practices in schools and districts across the country is a welcome wave of change.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund (JFSF) supports grassroots organizing initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth.

The Just and Fair Schools Fund supports grassroots organising initiatives that work to eliminate harsh school discipline policies and practices - and that uphold the right to education for all youth.