Sentences with phrase «more educational failure»

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society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt economic structures, or as a failure of the educational system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK, what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.

As Ms Truss points out, the seeds of educational failure for poor children are sown early, and the later education starts, the more they will lose out.

Affirming Rogers» earlier point, the Globe article noted, «Middle schools were conceived in the 1970s and»80s as a nurturing bridge from early elementary grades to high school, but critics say they now more often resemble a swamp, where urban youth sink into educational failure.»

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

More generally, I would say that our single biggest national sin of omission is our continued failure to provide our most vulnerable children, often poor and students of color, truly equal educational opportunities.

More people to understand the consequences of inaction especially for low - income urban youth who are hit hard by our failure to provide every student with an excellent educational experience.

We can put an end to our edu - masochism: If researchers spend more effort on assessing our own states» successes and failures in improving student performance and less on trying to draw lessons from countries with very different social and educational contexts, they are sure to spark a much more productive national educational policy debate than we have had in the past decade.

We need to spend more time talking about the failures — and successes — of our educational system.

School - related problems such as academic failure, low educational aspirations, negative labeling, and trouble at school are key risk factors for gang joining among girls, and these may be more influential for them than for boys (Peterson, 2012; Thornberry, et al., 2003).

But it is much more difficult to learn to read once the cycle of educational failure has already taken hold.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

It is a failure of our educational system that in one of the richest nations on earth that 41 % of us have no more than $ 500 saved for emergencies.

Removing children from early learning environments also stigmatizes young individuals, contributing to numerous adverse social and educational outcomes.4 Research shows that young children who are suspended or expelled are more likely to experience academic failure and hold negative attitudes toward school, which contributes to a greater likelihood of dropping out of school and incarceration.5