Sentences with phrase «major barrier to their learning»

The Windmill School will offer places for children and young people whose autism is the major barrier to their learning and would find the busy environments of both mainstream and generic special schools too challenging.»

In a recent survey by the Council of Chief State School Officers of 46 state teachers of the year, 76 percent named family stress and 63 percent named poverty as significant barriers to student achievement.8 And in a Communities In Schools survey, 88 percent of teachers said poverty is a major barrier to learning.9 Additionally, a survey conducted by the AFT in spring 2015 highlighted the workplace stress that teachers face — stress that many educators believe impedes instruction and demeans the profession.

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What do you see as the major opportunities and barriers to establishing system - wide student - centered learning in Burlington and Winooski?

Rather than force them to catch up on all the hours they've missed, the nonprofit's schools allow participants to progress as they learn — removing a major barrier to graduation.