Sentences with phrase «history of academic failure»

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.

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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.