Sentences with phrase «including academic failure»

FASD has «lifelong implications and may lead to significant secondary impairments, including academic failure, substance abuse, mental ill - health, contact with the justice system, and difficulties living independently and obtaining and maintaining employment,» she wrote.

«Kids with reading and language problems potentially experience many negative consequences, including academic failure, unemployment and delinquency,» said Dr. Catts.

They are associated with a wide range of problems in adolescence and adult life, including academic failure, delinquency, peer rejection, and poor psychiatric and physical health.

Not exact matches

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the commission that accredits the University of North Carolina, has placed UNC on 12 months probation after seven violations including academic integrity and a failure to monitor sports, the board announced Thursday.

Significant child - level factors associated with greater odds of justice - system contact included being male, having a mental - health diagnosis or child - protection contact, and academic failure.

Major themes include not wanting to disappoint parents, fear of failure, and general pressures linked to academic achievement.

It also mentions the low level of academic achievement in Detroit schools, including its charters, but the level of performance does not distinguish between the difficulties that children bring to school and the success or failure of schools to improve student performance.

The DCPS funding formula does differentiate public funding based on the number of students at each grade level and in different special needs categories, including special education, English language learners, and those «at risk» for academic failure.38 DCPS would not disclose how or if it factors in parental donations when determining school budgets or allocations.39 However, it did report not having a policy to equitably redistribute parent donations or to prohibit these additional dollars from being put toward staffing.40

Rather than fixing behavioral problems, suspension and expulsion are more likely to exacerbate underlying academic challenges, including social - emotional and other problems, leading to a vicious cycle that too often ends in failure and dropout.

Students in public schools who're at risk of academic failure have a right to a Personal Education Plan that includes a diagnostic assessment, interventions, and progress monitoring.

In using ARRA funds, states and school divisions must advance core reforms identified in the legislation, including: implementation of college - and career - ready standards and assessments for all students; establishment of preschool to postsecondary and career longitudinal data systems; improvement in teacher quality — especially for students most at risk of academic failure; and improvement of low - performing schools through effective interventions.

http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/test.myths.reality.htm Big Ideas in Beginning Reading Types of Reading Assessments An effective, comprehensive reading program includes reading assessments for four purposes: • Screening - Designed as a first step in identifying children who may be at high risk for delayed development or academic failure and in need of further diagnosis of their need for special services or additional reading instruction.

• Allow them to specialize in teaching students at risk of academic failure, including children with disabilities or severe behavioral problems.

Charter school researcher Alison Consoletti (2011) reports that 1,036 charter schools (15 percent of the total number opened since the first school in 1992) have been closed for cause, including 42 percent for financial deficiencies often related to low student enrollment, 24 percent for mismanagement such as administrators» misuse of funds, and 19 percent for failure to meet student academic performance standards.

v. provide mentoring and school counseling to all students, including children who are at risk of academic failure, dropping out of school, involvement in criminal or delinquent activities, or drug use and abuse

While the issue has only recently become acute, it has become acute because of accumulating failure during the AR5 assessment process, including errors and misrepresentations by IPCC in the assessments sent out for external review; the almost total failure of the academic climate community to address the discrepancy; gatekeeping by fellow - traveling journal editors that suppressed criticism of the defects in the limited academic literature on the topic.

Two days later, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D - AZ), ranking member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter citing the Soon controversy to seven universities, including the University of Delaware where Legates works, citing «potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.»

The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.

Professor Prinz argues that the parenting - focused aspects of child maltreatment prevention can extend beyond the original goal, including the prevention of childhood social, emotional, and behavioural problems; the reduction of risk for adverse adolescent outcomes (such as substance use, delinquency and academic failure); and parental engagement for school readiness.

The model is based on the assumption that significant problematic substance use and the behaviours often associated with it cause development to essentially «arrest» in many areas of the child's life, including emotional, social, academic (intellectual) and even physical development (consider the impact of poor nutrition, school dropout / disengagement, poor sleep habits, numbing of emotions and failure to engage in healthy relationships).

His primary research interests include the development and prevention of child antisocial behavior and related problem behaviors, such as substance use and abuse, academic failure, and high risking sexual behavior; Coercion Theory; the development of preventive interventions for incarcerated parents, their children, and the caregivers of their children; early childhood education and intervention; youth mentoring; preventive interventions for physical health problems; and the development and prevention of adjustment problems during adulthood, including substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and suicidality.

Low levels of parental monitoring have consistently predicted a variety of health risks across child developmental periods, including accidental injuries in young children (Morrongiello, Corbell, McCourt, & Johnston, 2006; Peterson & Brown, 1994) and substance abuse (Chilcoat & Anthony, 1996; Dishion & McMahon, 1998; Li, Stanton, & Feigelman, 2000), delinquency (Griffin, Botvin, Scheier, Diaz, & Miller, 2000; Pettit, Bates, Dodge, & Meece, 1999), risky sexual behavior (French & Dishion, 2003; Rose et al., 2005), and academic failure in older children and adolescents (Rodgers & Rose, 2001).