Sentences with phrase «including school failure»

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when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Many business schools now include learning from failure courses as part of the entrepreneurship curriculum and self - help networks have formed in the physical and digital worlds allowing business owners to share their experiences and learn from mistakes.

These ills include what he takes to be the failure of our schools to educate properly and to offer and instill a worthwhile cultural heritage.

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.

Transitions to a new school — especially giant high schools for Grade 9 — can be tough for other reasons, including fears around failure, bullying and hazing.

Corporal punishment has been linked with all sorts of behavior problems, including aggression, paranoia, school failure, poor emotional regulation, and low empathy (Larzelere and Kuhn 2005; Johnson et al 2006; Alyahri and Goodman 2008; Chang et al 2003; Gershoff 2002).

«We remain prepared to negotiate all outstanding issues required to get to an agreement on teacher evaluation, but unfortunately Mr. Mulgrew's failure to bargain in good faith and insistence on including issues unrelated to teacher evaluation is unacceptable and illegal,» Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said in a statement.

Albanese has criticized the mayor for management failures related to a wide variety of city agencies and services, including the school system and Department of Correction.

Sharon Owens, director of the Southwest Community Center, made a blistering comment about the failure to include the schools in the Consensus proposal.

Several free schools, including spectacular early failures, have been faith - based.

Prisco's concerns echo the concerns of parents who have blasted Bloomberg's failure to include parents in the city's public schools since winning mayoral control over the Education Department in 2002.

«By preventing teen and unplanned pregnancy, we can significantly improve other serious social problems including poverty (especially child poverty), child abuse and neglect, low birth weight, and failure in schooling.»

He said, Zamfara workers were faced with a number of problems which include failure to pay the salaries of 1,400 recruited by the government more than two years ago, non payment of backlog of pension and gratuities, non payment of minimum wage to primary school teachers and local government employees as well as non payment of annual salary increment.

Talk of the Sound has requested further information from the WCDOH including information regarding communications between the WCDOH and the City School District of New Rochelle regarding the «stealth retraction», the failure to remove the third knowingly false statement and the failure to send a new message to Davis parents that the message from Michael Galland on August 5th containing a knowingly false statement.

Yet author James Nehring, the school's first principal, tells a story of utter chaos in the school's first year, including scheduling meltdowns, administrative blunders, and a failure to link course objectives with established graduation outcomes.

Throughout the book, Osborne returns to a collection of principles called «the seven Cs» — including parental choice, serious consequences for school failure, school - level control of operations, and the separation of rowing and steering — that define new public education systems.

Courting Failure includes nine chapters that present «data points» on school finance lawsuits — demonstrating that court rulings show little relationship to the provisions of state constitutions, that plaintiffs are unable to link resource shortfalls to achievement differences, that enormous infusions of resources don't achieve their purpose, and so on.

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.

A DfE spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

But failure to meet required graduation and test participation rates add to the list, including schools from Michigan's biggest cities and smallest towns.

The fall applies to both university and school - led training, including the controversial School Direct programme, which has previously been blamed for a failure to reach recruitment taschool - led training, including the controversial School Direct programme, which has previously been blamed for a failure to reach recruitment taSchool Direct programme, which has previously been blamed for a failure to reach recruitment targets.

The fact that the reforms — including the shutdown of tdistrict schools that were as much community institutions as they were failure mills — were implemented without the input of families is also upsetting.

What's different here is that the definition of «extraordinary» is widening, not just to cover the kinds of emergencies caused by bankruptcy or mayhem, but also to include a school's chronic failure to educate its pupils.

My concern, at least with what I've read above, is the failure to include knowledge in the equation; I applaud Fordham for making the connection between social mobility and schooling and the Murray discussion teased out some wonderful insights about it.

Because we were interested in special interventions for students most at risk for failure, we selected 8 schools which had carefully implemented an externally developed, research - proven early reading intervention, including 1 Book Buddies school (Invernizzi, Juel, & Rosemary, 1997), 2 Early Intervention in Reading schools (Taylor, Short, Frye, & Shearer, 1992), 3 schools with Right Start in Reading (Hiebert, Colt, Catto, & Gury, 1992), and 2 Reading Recovery schools (Pinnell, Lyons, DeFord, Bryk, & Seltzer, 1994).

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL Nebraska School Nurses Association AND / OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE Nebraska School Nurses Association WEB SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE Nebraska School Nurses Association WEB SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE Nebraska School Nurses Association WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE Nebraska School Nurses Association WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF Nebraska School Nurses Association OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «We do not tolerate failure and the strength of the academies programme is that it allows us to intervene swiftly, including replacing sponsors where it is in the best interests of the school.

• Due process rights of parentally placed private school children and their parents are limited to a school district's failure to comply with the child find requirements, including the evaluation requirements.

More importantly, the most - successful efforts to expand school choice (including Virginia Walden Ford's work in Washington, D.C., Steve Barr's work with Latino communities in Los Angeles, and Parent Revolution's Parent Trigger efforts), have been ones led by poor and minority communities who explicitly made the case for helping their own children escape failure mills that damaged their families for generations.

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

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

As you would expect, fair weather accountability hawks within the school reform movement such as Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute criticize Education Trust for clearly pointing out once again that these systems — including the A-to-F grading approach used in the Sunshine State — are concealing the failures of schools and districts to address achievement gaps.

I do not think that a student's failure of the CUNY entrance writing exam should be attributed solely to the high school or the teachers, and I question the advisability of including it in a school's report - card grade.

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.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

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.

Ofsted highlighted issues including low pupil attainment and a failure from school leaders and governors to ensure adequate progress.

Grant Callen, president of Empower Mississippi, a nonprofit dedicated to «school choice» options, including vouchers and charter schools, says an experience like Kast's illustrates a range of failures on the part of public schools.

Safeguarding failures were identified at a number of the schools, including Purneck View School, a residential school for autistic children, and Salisbury Cathedral School, while fire safety issues were raised about both Tarbiyyah Primary School and Redstone Educational AcSchool, a residential school for autistic children, and Salisbury Cathedral School, while fire safety issues were raised about both Tarbiyyah Primary School and Redstone Educational Acschool for autistic children, and Salisbury Cathedral School, while fire safety issues were raised about both Tarbiyyah Primary School and Redstone Educational AcSchool, while fire safety issues were raised about both Tarbiyyah Primary School and Redstone Educational AcSchool and Redstone Educational Academy.

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.

From where Casey sits, the criticism of Brown and others about the unwillingness of the AFT to embrace any reform of the obsolete process for teacher dismissals — including the Big Apple affiliate's successful opposition to Bloomberg's effort this year to give the city's schools chancellor final say over dismissing those alleged and convicted of criminal misconduct (and those engaged in inappropriate behavior with students)-- amounts to» a vicious slander» geared to «chip away at public support for the due process rights» and to «distract» people from the city's failures to put more effort into firing such teachers.

«Failure is not an Option,» a study sponsored by the Ohio Business Roundtable, the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio State University, focused on nine top urban schools, including MC2STEM and the excellent - rated Citizens Academy charter school, also in Cleveland.

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

Certainly one can appreciate Petrilli's desire for better forms of accountability; Dropout Nation has continually argued for more - expansive accountability, including greater scrutiny of the nation's university schools of education (whose failures in recruiting and training aspiring teachers are one of the culprits behind the nation's education crisis), and using college completion data in K - 12 accountability systems.

Failure to properly include school governance councils was one of the items that got Paul Vallas, Bridgeport's faux Superintendent of Schools, sued earlier this year.

In addition Dr. DeCapua's has contributed to numerous articles in a variety of journals including Preventing School Failure, ELT Journal, Bilingual Research Journal, Urban Review, TESOL Journal, and System.

At its core, NCLB faults schools and curriculum for student failure, but critics claim that other factors are also to blame, including: class size, old and damaged school buildings, hunger and homelessness, and lack of health care.

Complaints include students being counseled away from attending voucher schools, students being accepted and then encouraged to return to a public school and students suffering harassment or a failure to have their needs met, Murphy said.