Sentences with phrase «lowering academic standards»

Has giving more money to the parents or the schools of low - achieving students or lowering academic standards in the name of equity or accessibility improved their academic record or social status?

«Many states have responded to the law's perverse incentives by lowering their academic standards,» Duncan wrote.

1) Minorities are held to lower academic standards due to liberal policies.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

For instance, if teachers believe that less should be expected of minority children, they might lower their academic standards when confronted with a classroom that has a high share of black or Hispanic students.

Most states set absurdly low academic standards before the Common Core, and their tests were even worse.

In school, this translates into strong consumer pressure to lower academic standards, reduce requirements, and minimize the amount of learning that is needed to attain a particular level of credential.»

This practice, diametrically opposed to that in Singapore, which outperforms the United States in reading in English in spite of the fact that nearly everyone in that city - state speaks a different language at home, has no chance of narrowing the gap in academic literacy with native English speakers; instead it will exacerbate it, to be followed by more civil rights pressure on our universities to lower their academic standards still further in an attempt to achieve equal outcomes, in a vicious cycle that will continue the degradation of America's civil and academic life.

They combine new federal dictates over the timing of improvement with continued state control over the standards for improvement, perhaps providing perverse incentives for states to lower the academic standards they recently adopted.

He argues that U.S. students lag behind Japanese students because of the lack of national curriculum and low academic standards in the United States.

Lowers academic standards: Today, all states have academic standards that are aligned to career and college readiness.

But what ultimately resulted in New Living Word's expulsion from the voucher program was not its low academic standards; rather, it was found to be charging voucher students higher tuition rates than students paying their own way — which is prohibited under Louisiana's law (nothing in the North Carolina statute specifically addresses this potential consequence).

Who favors «low academic standards?»

Children living below 100 % of the federal poverty line are twice as likely as children with family incomes over 200 % of the poverty line to attend schools with low academic standards (20 % versus 10 %).

Lowers academic standards: Sen. Alexander's bill fails to require that states implement internationally benchmarked, college - and career - ready standards.

Teachers in Washington, D.C. public schools are decrying new policies that lower academic standards, including one that requires a passing grade even for students who fail three out of four quarters.

Not exact matches

If black athletes less frequently achieve the minimal academic standard set for those participating in intercollegiate sports, then let us promulgate for them a separate, lower standard, even as we accuse of racism those suggesting the need for a standard in the first place.

Coming, as they often do, from families with a history of child and wife abuse, alcoholism, promiscuity, poor nutrition, a lack of discipline and low academic achievement, they find adjustment to stricter, often fundamentalist standards difficult.

I remember that while the fans were certainly upset over the Stallings hire, there was some intrigue with his recruiting because he had been handcuffed quite a bit by the academic standards at Vanderbilt, so there was at least a glimmer of hope that coming to an ACC school with lowered standards would help open doors to recruits he didn't have a shot at when he was at Vanderbilt.

Antifootball students have the misconception that the sport will mean lowering of academic standards.

By broadening the scope of faculty searches, academic science departments could, similarly, diversify their faculties without lowering standards.

While the Mediterranean diet was able to hold its own against the powerful fat reducing Atkins diet, the Low Fat American Heart Association standard was left choking in the dust — sad, tired and unloved except by academic physicians.

Giving low - income students the chance to be in an environment with high academic and behavioral standards strikes me as a victory for equity, not a loss.

The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited - English - speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low - performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst - performing schools.

Overemphasis on testing can put pressure on educators to focus on the lowest common denominator of academic standard.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

Moreover, it is clear that the vast majority of states have set their academic achievement bar far lower than federal standards, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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.

In terms of academic performance, KIPP students» achievement in grade 4 (before entering KIPP) is lower than the district average by 0.09 standard deviations in reading and by 0.08 standard deviations in math, or roughly one - quarter of a grade level in each subject.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

In Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal wants the state legislature to drop the Common Core state standards in its upcoming legislative session, a survey finds high support for «generic» academic standards but lower support for the Common Core standards.

It had momentum prior to the 2008 election as state policymakers came to understand that their own academic standards for public schooling were far too low — and sadly uneven — and that a joint effort to create common standards might provide the political cover to aim higher.

As a result, educators channeled increasing numbers of students into undemanding, nonacademic courses, while lowering standards in the academic courses that were required for graduation.

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.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

Even the 1994 federal Title I reforms, which required states to develop the three major prongs of an effective accountability system (academic standards, tests linked to the standards, and a mixture of assistance and sanctions for low - performing schools) did little to stimulate California into action.

Haythorpe said while those students may have other qualities that will make them good teachers, it is a concern that other pathways are being used to lower academic entry standards even further.

Some examples of systemic intolerance and institutionalized racism include the disproportionate number of African American or Latino students who are suspended and expelled, or when the academic proficiency standards for certain ethnic groups are lower than others, as is true in Florida and Virginia.

In addition to helping students develop the explicit academic knowledge listed in the standards, collaborative writing has been found to be particularly helpful (PDF) to English - language learners (ELLs) in lowering anxiety and increasing self - confidence and motivation.

Groups that spent decades urging the country toward higher academic standards worry about returning to empty talk of self - esteem, accepting low achievement as long as students feel good.

But at the same time, those numbers are tainted by some districts who, under pressure to meet federal standards, simply lowered the academic bar to help more students reach it.

Enrolling mainly poor and minority students, these schools feature high academic standards, strict disciplinary codes, extended instructional time, and targeted supports for low - performing students.

Stanford University Emeritus Mathematics Professor R. James Milgram — the only academic mathematician on Common Core» s validation committee — refused to sign off on the final draft, describing the standards as having «extremely serious failings» and reflecting «very low expectations.»

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

2 % of parents believe that the current academic standards at their child's school should be lowered.

Race to the Top (RTTT) grants had been awarded after considering whether states would adopt high academic standards, implement prescribed strategies in low ‐ performing schools, and use student test scores to determine the effectiveness of teachers.

• Academic standards are important and too low: 67 % believes the expectations for what students should learn is important to school improvement, and 39 % believes that the standards are too low in their community's schools.