Sentences with phrase «large numbers of failing schools»

As we are now seeing, requiring all schools to meet the same high standards for all students, regardless of family background, will inevitably lead either to large numbers of failing schools or to a dramatic lowering of state standards.

And having significantly lower numbers of failing schools means that state officials, including some mayors and governors, will not be embarrassed with large numbers of failing schools.

Newark's school system encompasses nearly every structural impediment possible, including a tradition of patronage, mismanagement of resources, large numbers of failing schools, and lack of public trust.

He warned that some trusts that had taken on large numbers of failing schools had found this a really difficult job.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Perhaps they could not bring a minister who was both teacher and expounder of the gospel, perhaps they could not supply schools in the earliest days; nevertheless they did not fail to supply large numbers of fervent exhorters for the Lord.

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education (DfE) of «National Standards of Excellence for Headteachers», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «With increasing difficulties in recruiting new headteachers, and with record numbers of teachers wanting to leave the profession, the Coalition Government has failed to recognise the damaging effect of its policies on the morale and confidence of teachers and school leaders.

If the propositions fail, the governor said he will have to make cuts to schooling and health care and would likely need to release a large number of inmates from the state's prison system.

As a result, large numbers of failing district and charter schools continue to operate.

When the opportunity arose, Canada, who had watched public schools fail for decades, jumped at the opportunity to deliver a great school to large numbers of poor children.

But despite a series of unanimous Supreme Court decisions meant to reverse this trend, in the ensuing years large numbers of black students failed to gain access to the best programs the newly integrated schools offered.

NPR looks into the «summer melt» phenomenon — the large number of poor high school students who say they are continuing on to college but fail to show up in the fall.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

By 15 years of age, large numbers of these students fail to meet even minimum standards of reading, writing, mathematics and science, and many have essentially disengaged from the schooling process.

Moreover, Riley fails to note that a large number of Christian schools, including Calvary, offer a full list of college preparatory courses that have been approved by the University of California (UC) system.

For instance, Gallup has reported that, when asked how they would interpret the fact that «large numbers of public schools fail to meet the requirements established by the NCLB law,» just 43 % of respondents said they'd blame the public schools for the outcome.

The number of schools failing to meet AYP targets was nil or small in many of these districts (e.g., 2 of 60 schools in one large district), although in one state an entire district was designated as «in need of improvement.»

This is what it boils down to: many of California's school districts thought it was unfair to judge their schools as failing because they served large numbers of challenged students whose growth and progress wasn't fairly measured by a narrow set of tests.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

Now we pass on 56 percent of children in Title 1 public schools who fail national reading tests in the 4th grade to the 5th grade with the pretense that the 5th grade teacher will handle the problem of a mixed class of children who can read with a large number of children who can not read.

Brockton never fired large numbers of teachers, in contrast with current federal policy, which encourages failing schools to consider replacing at least half of all teachers to reinvigorate instruction.

The attention needs to shift; behind Denver, Aurora is home to the largest number of the state's failing schools in a single district, and some of the lowest academic achievement in the metro area.

Education officials and family advocates say that as large failing schools were closed and replaced with smaller schools during the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, many bilingual programs disappeared because schools no longer had the number of students necessary to sustain them.

In general, the notion that large numbers of charter school students are failing academically and would be a drag on the school district graduation rate if they were included in the rate appears to be unjustified.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

NCLB had states apply a spectrum of improvement actions to a large number of schools failing to make AYP.

So I do worry that in some schools we'll have 80 percent or some large number of students failing.

He says that as long as schools fail to capture the attention of their otherwise brilliant Black male learners, we will continue to see large numbers of them joining gangs, winding up in juvenile detention facilities and dying in the streets.

As a national debate continues to simmer over the best methods for protecting students from gun violence, a state senator from Southern California points out that a large number of school districts are failing to develop or update school safety plans — as required by law.

LST stands by the assertion that dozens of ABA - approved law schools know that they have admitted large numbers of students who, based on their low LSAT scores, coupled with commensurately low undergraduate GPAs, are at high risk of academic failure or failing the bar.