Sentences with phrase «hurt schools and students»

Parents want approaches that are vastly different from prevailing policies they believe hurt schools and students.

Not exact matches

In Afganistan, water was poisoned at a school and 150 students were hurt.

By the time the students got to middle school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.

For the first time, researchers in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University have provided the strongest evidence to date that grade retention in the elementary grades hurts students» chances of graduating high school.

Healthy Schools Schools can reduce asthma triggers by limiting chemicals and fragrances, such as found in disinfecting wipes used inside the school or on school grounds, that can trigger asthma and allergies, hurt student and teacher performance, and result in missed school days.

«I think school districts are hurting and students are suffering as a result in the terms of their educational opportunities, and I would like to see our higher education facilities improve dramatically.

The Post's interviews with parents and staffers at JHS / MS 80, as well as public documents, painted a picture of a school where students are allowed to shirk their studies, hurt each other and play on computers in rat - infested buildings, while administrators turned a blind eye and even discouraged staffers from reporting violence.

Markiet, alongside his young sons Elias and Ethan, students in the South Orangetown Central School District, was another attendee drawn by the dual purpose of obtaining an autographed photo and helping out those hurt terribly by Superstorm Sandy.

In the wake of a social media event referred to as «Exposure Day,» Albany City School officials and local police are investigating a Facebook post that sought to hurt or embarrass students.

«Teachers, parents and community activists will stand against any attempt to hurt our students and our schools.»

One of the latest and most ambitious studies on bullying and cyberbullying in middle and high school students begs to differ with the age - old adage, «sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can't hurt me.»

The researchers found that student - athletes reported feeling uncertain in three areas: personal uncertainty, such as uncertainty about balancing school work and sports; social uncertainty, such as uncertainty related to who their «real» friends are; and future uncertainty, such as uncertainty concerning their post-collegiate careers and whether the time they spend pursuing athletics will hurt their career prospects.

Very few were actually bad — and several were very good, especially Forever Young — in which a busload of high school students and their driver were hurt.

They are extremely useful in helping elementary and middle school students develop the language to deal with bully's who use their words to hurt or embarrass others.

The absence of high - performing public schools, and the lack of emphasis on American civics or expectations for good citizenship, will hurt our nation's youth and will certainly handicap our Hispanic immigrant students and their families most by impeding the assimilation process.

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And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African - American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.

Opposition among antipoverty groups is building on two grounds — that charter schools are done to, not by, families in big cities; and that transfers of funds to charter schools hurt students in district - run schools.

Efforts to build empathy and involve students in the process of change can shift the school culture to one where offending or hurting someone else, either in person or online, is not seen as cool.

And contrary to the claim that vouchers hurt public schools, the report found that students at Milwaukee public schools «are performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

The CTA vowed to appeal because the decision to «strip teachers of their professional rights hurts our students and our schools.»

In October, some high schools in the Washington area took a new look at their policies on the subject after one student was killed and another was badly hurt after a lunchtime crash in Germantown, Md., a suburb of Washington.

And in a high - poverty school especially — where everybody is poor — that has the unintended consequence of hurting high - achieving, low - income students.

That's why last spring I called for a moratorium — not on the standards or even on the testing, but on the stakes that could unfairly hurt students, teachers and schools during this transition to the Common Core.

It's also the reason districts can't compete effectively with charter schools and complain that charter growth hurts students in district - run schools.

There is no need to «beat around the bush» or «sugar coat» the fact that charters and vouchers do «hurt» schools that are not getting the job done for the students or the parents.

When good schools get sanctioned, resources are wasted and we risk causing quick - fix, panic driven, counterproductive change in schools that may ultimately hurt students.

And in its defense Wednesday, the state once again disputed whether the plaintiff school districts» legal team had proved that funding was inadequate and hurting studenAnd in its defense Wednesday, the state once again disputed whether the plaintiff school districts» legal team had proved that funding was inadequate and hurting studenand hurting students.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

The supporters of the charter school moratorium made two arguments: the charter schools are not as good as people say they are, and if the charters schools expanded they would hurt the education of students in the traditional public schools.

As U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put it in 2013, «For too long, in too many places, schools systems have hurt students by treating every teacher the same — failing to identify those who need support and those whose work deserves particular recognition.»

At least as important, as The Washington Post noted, «one very pernicious effect» of this plan is that it «would probably help mediocre (generally rich) prep school kids and hurt high - achieving (generally less well - off) public school students.»

«Knowing that my kids are kids who're going to pass and going to do well, I'm afraid that if I don't let them take the test, then that's going to hurt my school by reducing the number of passing and participating students that they have.

When done poorly, failing schools continue to hurt students, taxpayer dollars are misused, and ultimately kids lose out.

As Oklahoma continues to lose its teachers to surrounding higher - paying states, students see a revolving door of educators entering and leaving their school — a process that research shows hurts student achievement.56 Instead of loosening requirements for entry into the profession to solve this problem, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) assembled a Teacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the state.

In an effort to alleviate pressure for states and schools the NCLB waiver program, unfortunately, has the potential to hurt students,.

The research is clear, these (vouchers) do not benefit those students, they do not benefit those schools, other than their bottom line, and they hurt public education.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

The presence of hundreds of thousands of guns on campuses increases the likelihood that students or school personnel will gain access to firearms and accidentally hurt each other.

These federal programs are essential to support long ‐ standing federal commitments and help offset the recent budget cuts, which have forced school districts to cut academic programs and have disproportionately hurt our neediest students and schools.

Lake Wales High School will start classes after 8 a.m. starting in August 2014 due to «overwhelming and compelling» research that earlier hours are hurting students.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

Obfuscating distinctions — whether through grade inflation or grade elimination — helps students in schools where average achievement is high and hurts those where that average is low.

Again, that's likely to hurt kids at non-elite schools (and also scholarship students at elites).

An entirely different matter is whether the funding loss, in turn, would actually hurt the education received by Wisconsin's 870,000 public school students and 32,000 publicly funded voucher students.

«Student assessment is essential to informing good teaching and can help communities hold local schools accountable for effectively serving all students, but children must not be hurt in the process,» said Dr. María Cuca Robledo Montecel, IDRA president and CEO.

Each event will also share information about how public school takeovers will hurt our students and deny critical services, such as bilingual education and special education.

A walk - in is an early morning gathering of parents, students, educators and community supporters who come together to celebrate their school and to share information about how public school takeovers will hurt our students and deny critical services, such as bilingual education and special education.

And Andria Amador, the assistant director of Behavioral Health Services for Boston Public Schools, moves us to action with her call for proactive and preventive help for students who are hurtiAnd Andria Amador, the assistant director of Behavioral Health Services for Boston Public Schools, moves us to action with her call for proactive and preventive help for students who are hurtiand preventive help for students who are hurting.

Thousands of parents, educators, students and community leaders will hold «walk - ins» on Friday, September 18 at more than 100 public schools across the city of Milwaukee to celebrate public schools and to share information about how a proposed public school takeover will hurt students and the Milwaukee economy.