Graduates of a program designed to inculcate school principals with unconventional thinking have gone on to help drive up English test scores even though the graduates were often placed at schools with
histories of academic failure, according to a study released on Monday.
Not exact matches
Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study
of the
history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance
of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the
academic failures were not the result
of moral or character imperfections but
of knowledge deficits.
Students who have experienced years
of repeated
academic failure or have a
history of attendance challenges are likely to drop out
of school.
Officials disputed elements
of Medina and Xavier's story, but PS 194, which enrolls 220 city kids, has a long
history of campus violence and
academic failure — problems that sometimes went unreported for years.
The Indiana State Board
of Education approved four private schools with a
history of low performance and
academic failure to accept publicly funded vouchers.
In revealing the
failure of much
academic art
history, and a great deal
of history in general, to take account
of the unacknowledged value system, the very presence
of an intruding subject in historical investigation, the feminist critique at the same time lays bare its conceptual smugness, its meta - historical naïveté.