Sentences with phrase «increased academic pressure»

Other issues may include adjusting to multiple class changes, increased academic pressure, and changes in peer group.

Today's «tweens» — young people ages 9 through 13 — face new challenges: increasing academic pressure; less stable societal structures; and a pop culture pushing sex, violence, and materialism.

Though an online math tutor wasn't around back then, they may be able to help your child deal with the ever - increasing academic pressure placed on their shoulders now.

Not exact matches

It is an increasing challenge to raise our children in the current environment, where they face heightened academic and social pressures.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

Increasing academic demands, peer pressure and concerns about fitting in socially can all add up to extra angst.

The early grades are seeing increasing pressure from standardized tests and homework and more emphasis on academics.

And the increased academic requirements, test pressures and the age of the peers their kids will be competing against has many parents wondering if their kids are really ready to start Kindergarten.

If it makes students more demanding and less tolerant of courses which are poor value, and if it increases pressure on universities to weed out underperforming academics and lousy teachers, that's to the good.

Indicators shows that Federal investment in both academic and business sector R&D has declined in recent years, reflecting the effects of the end of the investments of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), the advent of the Budget Control Act, and increased pressure on the discretionary portion of the federal budget.

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

Before schools can respond to external pressure for increased academic performance, they must transform themselves from atomized, incoherent organizations to ones in which faculty share an explicit set of norms and expectations about what good instructional practice looks like.

The latest edition of «The State of Our Nation's Youth,» which has published poll results episodically since 1996, finds a marked increase in academic pressure reported among the nation's teenagers.

Some of the root causes debated by MP's were the clear link to children's online habits which are keeping them isolated, sleep deprived and stuck in a dependence mode with low self - esteem, low self - confidence and fear of failing; along with too much pressure from a young age to pursue high academic standards; frequent cyberbullying and sexting; increased obsession with body awareness; and lack of skills that prepare children for life - such as resilience, within the curriculum.

Recent pressure to increase academic achievement has led new educational reform strategies to include ideas on extending the school day.

Lastly, NCLB «s promise of a substantial increase in student academic achievement has not been materialized, and the law's pressure on teachers to raise test scores has backfired into resentment of federal involvement in schooling.

We used to have a strong emphasis on character education, but when did the tide tip with increased external pressures that forced our schools to focus too narrowly on academics at the expense of the whole child and their character?

All this before we consider the cost pressures facing schools during the next comprehensive review period: increased national insurance and pension contributions, cost of living increases, incremental drift, reduction in post-16 academic programmes, reductions to education services grant funding for academies.

But in recent years, there has been increasing focus on test based performance by third grade that has created pressure to ensure children are «ready» by increasing academics in earlier and earlier grades.

However, psychological pressure they undergo due to the increased number of academic assignments has a crucial role in it.

Primary outcomes include: decreasing absences and tardies and increasing GPA which show statistically significant increases in youth and parent academic expectations, youth self - efficacy, family cohesion and decreases in negative peer pressure, affiliations and youth drug use.

Adolescents face increased academic and social pressures just at a time when they are often less open to parental advice.