Sentences with phrase «most dysfunctional schools»

In the late 1980s, he was principal of one of New York's most dysfunctional schools: P.S. 67, in the South Bronx.

Mentoring also is most likely to be mishandled and work least effectively in the most dysfunctional schools, the schools that have the hardest time holding on to new teachers.

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[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

SEED schools are boarding schools and nationally they have provided an answer, other than finger pointing at the failure of parents who in most cases are victims of the same dysfunctional society and school systems that their children are in.

In the last mayoral election, most of the Democratic wannabes vowed to keep open dysfunctional city schools, just to preserve jobs for staff and cater to unions.

The term is most often used to describe kids who have emotional problems that interfere with school performance, come from dysfunctional home environments, have had some problem with the law, and / or have been frequent behavioral challenges in school.

The vote was preceded by histrionics at times reminiscent of pre-Katrina meetings of the Orleans school board at its most chaotic and dysfunctional.

I could never fully understand the logic of the argument about the first academies presenting the end of the comprehensive ideal; City Academies took over some of the most depressed, dysfunctional, dystopian schools in the country.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

It's an important book, however, for anyone who wants to deeply understand what is happening in the most dysfunctional of our American schools.

During Henderson's five - year tenure, test scores have improved, schools have beefed up academic and extracurricular offerings and the system — once considered among the most dysfunctional in the nation — has been hailed by President Obama as an example of promising reform.

One of the most dysfunctional big schools, Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York, became infamous in 1992 when a 15 - year - old student there shot two other students dead in the hallway an hour before then - Mayor David Dinkins was set to tour the Brooklyn sSchool in East New York, became infamous in 1992 when a 15 - year - old student there shot two other students dead in the hallway an hour before then - Mayor David Dinkins was set to tour the Brooklyn schoolschool.

No one might have guessed back in 2001 that Denver Public Schools, notoriously dysfunctional and low - performing, would be one of most improved school districts in Colorado and the nation.