Sentences with phrase «lack of basic skills»

Many supervisors believe that the lack of basic skills is killing America's young professionals.

The longer this paucity of basic skills continues, the less likely will American youth be able to achieve those degrees, certificates and other credentials that ETS says are currently offsetting a lack of basic skills.

Although one can find heroic exceptions here and there (generally in schools led by extraordinary, beat - the - odds and damn - the - torpedoes principals), far too many public schools in tough neighborhoods and poor communities fail to get beyond the challenges of discipline, truancy, turnover of both students and staff, the ever - present risk of drop - outs, students» lack of basic skills, and such fundamental human needs as feeding breakfast to kids who come to school with empty stomachs.

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cents Work Opportunity Tax Credit: Both houses extend, through 2010, this tax credit for hiring disadvantaged people to include unemployed veterans and unemployed young people who've dropped out of school and lack basic skills.

If you aren't convinced that this flawed belief system is the product of a con man, then you lack basic reading comprehension skills.

Premarital growth groups can prevent many of these painful tragedies by correcting their basic cause — lack of skill in relating, communicating, and nurturing a love relationship.

I know it's very early in the season, but both Alfaro and Knapp show a lack of basic defensive catching skills.

Most of Premiere League players play with this basic of football, maybe because they are lacking of ball control skills or do not have the bravery to keep the ball and waiting for better chances.

They are reckless and arrogant in my opinion, seem to be lacking thoughtful management skills, and also appear to have lost a certain level of basic humanity... which unfortunately, I've seen all too often in the relentless pace and unrealistic expectations of technology companies.

This could be due to attendant failure to monitor correctly, inability of of the attendant to detect problems while monitoring, lack of skills at the basic or advanced level to intervene in emergency situations, refusal to call an ambulance when appropriate and or delay of advanced medical treatments due to delayed transfer.

As a teacher (6th grade), I find that a lot of my students lack these basic skills.

One recent study found that 86 % of disadvantaged preschoolers in 2 cities lacked basic motor skills like running, jumping, throwing, and catching.

A lack of tummy time and the resulting developmental delays can affect a child's ability to learn such basic skills as chewing, grasping, crawling, standing, and walking.

The reasons are many but include a decline in the quality of the civil service (a decline related to over-centralisation and the targets culture) but also ministers that lack many basic executive skills.

«We think that lack of SOD1 could be priming the muscle to use all of its survival skills,» said Holly Van Remmen, Ph.D., professor of cellular and structural biology in the School of Medicine and associate director for basic research at the Barshop Institute.

Cooking skills used to be passed down from generation to generation, but this trend has been broken and now millions of people lack even the most basic skills.

There is a lot of misinformation and a general lack of knowledge about healthy eating, nutrition, and even basic skills to cook and prepare healthy food for ourselves.

Game - play wise the DLC plays straightforward lacking customization and different ways to handle situations playing more like a handheld tutorial for most of the game, treating you as though you were too stupid to learn the basics of combat from the base game or earlier titles, However this could all be related to getting the player to use the new hacking feature in which you can now use situational hazards to stun enemies, however the concept falls shorts as most encounters when you will need to use hacking are scripted and would be more efficient in those that are not if you made use of your already acquired skills from the base game.Overall the DLC like the game is visually impressive and combat still flows well but you cant help but feel as though you have been cheated yet again.

A few years ago, Jocelyn Graves, of Sacramento, California, was shocked to learn that her fourth - grade son lacked some very basic reading skills.

Some students struggle in algebra because they lack important prerequisite skills, including facility with and understanding of fractions and fluency with basic number operations.

In addition, Florida embraced sensible education reforms such as alternative teacher certification, the curtailment of social promotion for students lacking basic literacy skills and the revamping of literacy instruction.

The most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.

When a student is lacking basic organizational skills, from keeping track of his belongings to keeping track of time, his ability to succeed in school is greatly compromised.

Conversely, countries with a substantial percentage of students lacking even basic skills tend to be those that have only a small percentage of highly skilled students.

However, it's not just the evident lack of basic transferable workplace skills preventing young people from thriving, we're also looking at students disengaging in the classroom at alarming rates.

Schools are obsessed with resilience right now, mostly because they're shocked at the lack of resilience and basic life skills among so many of their students.

Meanwhile, equating the teaching of basics with job training of «compliant workers,» he glosses over the fact that «many employers in the business community feel dissatisfied because,» in the words of the Committee for Economic Development's 1994 report, Putting Learning First, «a large majority of their new hires lack adequate writing and problem - solving skills.»

Educators of the gifted find that overuse of some cooperative learning strategies, particularly those focused on learning of basic information and skills, results in a lack of challenge for advanced learners, inordinate use of these learners as «junior teachers,» and inappropriate pressure for these learners to solve instructional problems (Robinson, 1990).

Per the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA), «Many children, including children with learning disabilities, do not learn to read in the first grade because they lack the basic readiness skills or the school's method is not appropriate for them.

According to the Rand Corporation's Pre - school Study, the achievement gap becomes evident in kindergarten when many of these children come to school lacking the basic social skills and early literacy skills they need to succeed.

Writer lacks basic grammar skills I'm a writer and need to go back to the basics of grammar.

The government's 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy estimated that 30 million Americans lack basic literacy skills.

Photo credits: EU / ECHO / Jonathan Hyams Global business leaders have joined forces to provide access to cut - price technology that will improve school system effectiveness and learning outcomes for some of the 330 million children around the world who lack basic skills for the knowledge economy of the future.

After 12 years of education, students today lack basic numeracy and literacy skills.

Those who are lacking the required skills will have ample opportunities to develop basic skills prior to PUMA admission through a series of topic - specific workshops (Balli, Wright, & Foster, 1997), recommended courses, and other support.

The real challenge is helping teachers understand their students» expectations and motivation and behavior and lack of knowledge around basic technical skills that are often over estimated.

«The lack of a substantial and rational high - school graduation standard has resulted in unready children being sent along to high school, handed degrees, and left — if they can scrape together the money — to buy basic skills at a community college,» he wrote.

Because teacher licensing tests, which are currently focused largely on basic skills and subject - matter knowledge, have not provided a meaningful assessment of capacity to teach before entry, teaching has lacked this key element of a profession.

The heads of the Department of Education of your states clearly lack the critical reasoning skills (and the common sense) and basic knowledge of test development required to make good decisions on behalf of the millions of children in their care.

But state data paints a different picture, one where almost 90 percent of freshman arrive lacking basic skills and almost three - quarters of students log test scores showing they're not ready for college and careers.

Four in ten of our fourth - graders lack basic reading skills.

They lack knowledge of taxes and basic mathematics skills.

One of the saddest things about adult illiteracy and ESL language learners is not the staggering rates of adults who are still classified as functionally illiterate, or the numbers of immigrants who may learn to speak a language with some level of comfort and fluency but never develop basic reading skills; it's the quality — or lack thereof — of instructional materials for adult learners.

Several reasons why many people do not write for publishing (Become That Writer Part 1)- General lack of literacy skills - Failure to acquire some form of basic education may lead to one becoming illiterate.

100 % of the drama in this book was due to either no communication or lack of basic reasoning skills.

Alexandra, And a review of the posts of Victoria Strauss ALSO shows that the people who follow her around on the message boards are like mindless cult members, impervious to reason and lacking both judgment and basic logic skills, and often try to make completely illogical claims and arguments in a hopeless attempt to redeem their leader.

Digital Literacy Community members come into public libraries every day, hoping to complete life tasks many of us take for granted, but lacking the basic computer skills to accomplish them.

When patients lack basic reading skills, it can impact the health care system to the tune of $ 100 billion annually.

If that's all a teacher is able to provide their students — either due to lack of resources, or over-capacity issues in the classroom, or a high proportion of students who struggle with family, cultural or financial issues — then at the very least these kids would have the basics; the skills necessary to move forward in their educational pursuits.

The selected dogs typically lack basic obedience and social skills, or need confidence building because of previous neglect or abuse.