Sentences with phrase «in dysfunctional schools»

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know of Lakewood's sordid history of shortchanging poor students of color trapped in dysfunctional schools run by a Board that privileges Orthodox children who attend private and unaccountable Jewish yeshivas.

Over time, I came to think of this as technology's Law of Amplification: While technology helps education where it's already doing well, technology does little for mediocre educational systems; and in dysfunctional schools, it can cause outright harm.

At SIG's onset, I went on the record predicting it would end as a monumental, possibly historic, waste of precious resources — investing billions of dollars in dysfunctional schools embedded in dysfunctional districts against the clear lessons of decades of research and experience.

The only families interested in buying a home in a dysfunctional school system are those who do not wish to enroll their kids in that school system.

Not exact matches

They saw the value of demonstrating their love for God by being faithful in the little things; a community that was so dysfunctional became one that was a true «school for saints».

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

Christian faith is not inherited; each generation, each individual, must learn faith anew.11 Recent Protestant innovations in membership procedures and sacramental practices are only the logical extension of long - dysfunctional assumptions about the faith formation of persons in the home, in Sunday School, and in the church.

She takes on the professional challenge to overhaul in only three short years, the neglected and dysfunctional Berkeley school lunch system.

In the Ohio 15th, whatever comeback Pryce may have is the result of an unending barrage of negative TV ads about her opponent, dating to the opponent's membership on what was, because of other members, a dysfunctional Columbus city school board.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

I suspect the shift is more to do with the coverage of the dysfunctional Al - Madinah free school in Derby than Nick Clegg's recent comments, but looking specifically at his comments 66 % of people agree that schools should only be able to employ qualified teachers, 56 % that all schools should have to follow the national curriculum.

He has severely attacked black members of the school board but he has also worked hard at the school board to make changes he believes will help students including struggling black students living in dysfunctional homes.

Back in 2001, the Partnership for New York City worked closely with legislative leaders to design the laws that replaced a dysfunctional and highly politicized system of central and community school boards with a governance system that holds the Mayor accountable for running the city schools.

SEED schools are boarding schools and nationally they have provided an answer, other than finger pointing at the failure of parents who in most cases are victims of the same dysfunctional society and school systems that their children are in.

In the last mayoral election, most of the Democratic wannabes vowed to keep open dysfunctional city schools, just to preserve jobs for staff and cater to unions.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

By the way, over the next several years, I predict we'll learn these lessons about dysfunctional measurement all over again from the craze over testing in our public schools.

A new study led by Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D. suggests that the brain network interactions between regions that support attention are dysfunctional in children and adolescents at genetic risk for developing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

The dysfunctional ones in «Smart People» are a widower, who is an insensitive, self - absorbed university teacher (Dennis Quaid); his isolated, perfectionist, high school senior daughter (Ellen Page); his irresponsible brother (Thomas Haden Church), and a former student who is now a doctor burdened with issues (Sarah Jessica Parker).

In this case, it seems that Harris is trying to craft a film that even proven directors would find daunting, with issues like suicide, dysfunctional families, first - time sex, adultery, potentially fatal diseases, homosexual tendencies, abuse, school pressures, and drugs.

Treeless Mountain (Unrated) Dysfunctional family drama, set in Seoul, about a six year - old girl (Hee - yeon Kim) taken out of school to care for her two year - old sister (Song - hee Kim) by their financially - struggling mother (Soo - ah Lee) who leaves them in the care of their selfish, alcoholic aunt (Mi - hyang Kim) so she can search for their deadbeat father.

Set in a multicultural school in West Yorkshire, this gritty dramedy explores the lives of students, teacheers, and families alike as they all try to get by in this dysfunctional, wild, wonderful world.

While Ruth skewered the abortion wars, Election was an allegory for our dysfunctional political system set in an Omaha high school.

Comer writes that when they begin with a dysfunctional school they might expect improvement in five years.

Ponze was assistant principal at a large, «dysfunctional» middle school in the city when she saw an ad for principal of a new all - girls public college - prep school and applied.

The term is most often used to describe kids who have emotional problems that interfere with school performance, come from dysfunctional home environments, have had some problem with the law, and / or have been frequent behavioral challenges in school.

They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.

Happily, there is increasingly impressive achievement being reported for charters that have been welcoming hordes of families fleeing dysfunctional, unrestructured urban schools in Washington, D.C., Buffalo, New York City, and elsewhere.

Likewise, in «Finishing Touches,» Robert Maranto states, «The animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

Can NCLB's accountability mechanisms be made more precise, so that they would compel significant reconstitution in chronically dysfunctional schools without catching in the net schools that, while in need of improvement, do not require dramatic reconstitution?

«In a place like L.A. or Detroit, where the public schools are dysfunctional,» Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told me, «I don't think that the system can by itself go where it has to go.

Mentoring also is most likely to be mishandled and work least effectively in the most dysfunctional schools, the schools that have the hardest time holding on to new teachers.

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

Though students in small schools are mostly positive about their experiences, the vast majority of students and families aren't ready to let go of their vision of the all - American high school — regardless of how dysfunctional it may actually be.

And in the district sector, experience has taught us that some schools have been so dysfunctional, for so long, that efforts to «turn them around» are virtually destined to fail.

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

In my mind, what is truly distinctive about these schools is how deeply invested they are in fostering the social development of their students, many of whom are reared in homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in lifIn my mind, what is truly distinctive about these schools is how deeply invested they are in fostering the social development of their students, many of whom are reared in homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in lifin fostering the social development of their students, many of whom are reared in homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in lifin homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in lifin ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in lifin school, much less in lifin life.

In the late 1980s, he was principal of one of New York's most dysfunctional schools: P.S. 67, in the South BronIn the late 1980s, he was principal of one of New York's most dysfunctional schools: P.S. 67, in the South Bronin the South Bronx.

I could never fully understand the logic of the argument about the first academies presenting the end of the comprehensive ideal; City Academies took over some of the most depressed, dysfunctional, dystopian schools in the country.

We have many invisible at - risk kids with dysfunctional families in schools in which few teachers can also act as counselors.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

And it should help curb any temptation the School Board might have to go back to the top heavy, dysfunctional operation that existed in August 2005.

Chenoweth suspects the high scores of the dysfunctional school she presents in contrast to her other successful schools «had not been attained in a legitimate way.»

• Reformers aim to curtail school boards in order to make administration more efficient (or less dysfunctional in the case of some boards), but, as with school size, reformers created school boards 100 or so years ago for precisely the same reasons.

Pre-Katrina, the New Orleans public school system was highly dysfunctional, and student test scores made it the second - lowest - ranked district in the second - lowest - ranked state in the country.

In a national landscape dotted with dysfunctional urban school systems and short - lived superintendencies, the Boston Public School district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stanschool systems and short - lived superintendencies, the Boston Public School district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stanSchool district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stand out.

As new state - created entities charged with running and turning around the state's worst schools, these districts are awarded certain authority and flexibility — such as the ability to turn schools into charters and to bypass collective bargaining agreements — that allow them to cut the red tape that has made so many schools dysfunctional in the first place.

These days, it has become totally acceptable for education leaders to blame poverty for our nation's achievement gap; to in effect say that all those kids can't learn in school because they're hungry, their families are dysfunctional, they are so far behind when they start Kindergarten that there's just no catching up, etc..

FROM THE HIGHEST reaches of the Obama administration to the parents of children in dysfunctional classrooms in Boston and elsewhere, there is a clamor to shake up underperforming schools.

«The whole school was operating in a way that was completely dysfunctional and chaotic,» says Amis.