Sentences with phrase «ignores higher achieving students»

A lowest performing supergroup captures students who are lagging behind their peers, but ignores higher achieving students who are low - income, of color, English learners, or have a disability.

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This article glosses over (ignores) any negative effect on higher achieving students by having lower achieving students present who strike out behaviourally when confronted with learning environments beyond their capability.

Yet draconian punishments are often ignored or forgiven for certain students, including athletes, high - achieving students, or those from good homes or the right racial background.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act was enacted, critics have questioned whether the law's mandate to bring students to «proficiency» has resulted in schools ignoring the needs of the nation's highest - and lowest - achieving students.

Interestingly, in this case and in others where district - wide differentiated instruction initiatives were underway, the explicit rationale provided by district personnel was to help teachers ensure that the needs of «high - ability learners» were not being ignored, given the predominant state emphasis on interventions to close the achievement gap between low - and high - achieving students.

This encourages schools to ignore their high - flyers, which is particularly problematic for low - income high - achieving students, who tend to lack access to «gifted and talented» programs and similar initiatives.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.