Sentences with phrase «lack of quality instruction»

I felt there was a lack of quality instruction, integrity, and service in the industry, so I opened Roadrunner Driving School in 1997.

But the negative factors — including lack of quality instruction time and low salaries — outweighed the positive aspects of teaching and led the teachers to quit.

Their professionalism and candor underscored the damning nature of Jim Crow, not in the lack of quality instruction but in the substandard facilities, large class sizes, lack of resources, and psychological impact segregation had on students — not to mention the disparities in pay and benefits including tenure.

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Given the need to improve the quality of instruction and the lack of clarity and shared knowledge about what systems and activities improve teaching, this is the right time to take stock of what is known; what kinds of activities are currently underway; and what will be needed going forward as reforms roll through the education system.

While it is nice to have data on teacher absenteeism (and the information illuminates the extent of the problem), the lack of information on chronic absenteeism — a key indicator of whether a student is on the path to dropping out — means that we don't know how poorly schools are doing in providing high - quality instruction and curricula to the students in their care.

Though news stories have inspired our outrage for some time, they have not inspired action because they generally lack the second ingredient in Mr. Gates's recipe: the good examples of successful, high - quality instruction that already exist in schools across America.

A host of factors — lack of accountability for school performance, staffing practices that strip school systems of incentives to take teacher evaluation seriously, teacher union ambivalence, and public education's practice of using teacher credentials as a proxy for teacher quality — have produced superficial and capricious teacher evaluation systems that often don't even directly address the quality of instruction, much less measure students» learning.

I constantly worry about his academic needs — the school's curriculum, the lack of accountability within the classrooms, the poor quality of his teachers and the ongoing need for additional instruction time for his struggling classmates.

Originally staffed with a 15 - to - one student - teacher ratio to respond to its high - need population, the school was nevertheless falling short with a faculty largely made up of new teachers who lacked training in quality instruction.