Sentences with phrase «lower academic tracks»

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

Finally, there is Emily, an eighth grader in Silicon Valley, whose problems with math will place her on a lower academic track if she remains at the same high school in her affluent community.

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A Los Angeles track authority charged: «The academic requirements are so low up there anyone can get in, and stay in.

Voters in the 19th Congressional district are being offered a choice between longtime resident John Faso with a proven track record of cutting budgets, lowering taxes, and working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and a radical New York City academic, with no roots in the district, who supports higher taxes, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and ever larger government in Washington.

180,000 prospect to help lower any barrier that may prevent students from going on the academic track.

Much reporting on the plight of adjunct faculty members emphasizes what sets them apart from academics on the tenure track: low pay, lack of job security, and lack of fringe benefits.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

When diverse schools institute rigid academic tracking that places students of color in low - level classes or employ harsh discipline policies that exclude students rather than providing support, they are not truly integrated.

Instead, we try to pretend that most, if not all, should be on an almost exclusively academic track, thereby requiring that standards of achievement be lowered and curricula watered down to accommodate the average to below - average ability student.

Eventually, schools began grouping students into these «tracks», based on the jobs they wished to pursue: rigorous courses for those on a more academic track, more basic life skills for students with their eyes set on lower - skilled work.

We also can combat other forces that lower the confidence of children of color in their academic ability and their worth, such as the pervasive belief in this country in the bell curve of ability, school practices for tracking, disproportionate placement in special education, biased application of discipline procedures, and unequal access to Advanced Placement classes.

Rather, students with low test scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.

Entrepreneurial educators and leaders who have the talent, energy, and capacity to found a new high - performing charter school — ideally, fellows have a proven track record of generating top - tier academic achievement for low - income students.

In middle and high schools, students with low test scores and grades and certain other characteristics are generally tracked into remedial courses, and those with stronger academic backgrounds are tracked into advanced courses.

The «corporations» generate millions in public funds yet provide minimal and low quality independent study programs without academic results, without transparency, but with exorbitant and difficult - to - track executive and contractor salaries.»

On the academic side, demands issue to eliminate tracking, dismantle honors classes, dumb down and «diversify» the curriculum, revise or water down the grading system, and lower the bar for AP classes.

Those schools (mostly middle and high schools) while diverse, were also highly tracked, concentrating students of color in the lowest academic programs.

Grade retention that results from narrow measures of academic preparedness can increase student risk for problems in school, including increased drop - out rates, and even when the student is promoted, the use of such assessments to sort students creates tracks within grade levels that reflect racial, ethnic, and social - class differences and that function to direct entire categories of students toward low - wage jobs or incarceration.

College - bound students were funneled into academically rigorous, college - preparatory courses, while students not deemed to be college material — either because of low academic achievement or due to racial or economic discrimination — were tracked into vocational education courses designed to prepare them for direct entry into the workforce.

The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years, and using a value added approach, found that teachers who help students raise their standardized test scores have a lasting positive effect on those students» lives beyond academics, including lower teenage - pregnancy rates, greater college matriculation and higher adult earnings.