Sentences with phrase «of underachieving schools»

Her comments came as the regulator, Ofsted, warned of a hardcore of underachieving schools that were struggling to recruit teachers.

Not exact matches

We are talking about a regular international, loads of UCL experience and a PL winner who has been schooled for almost his whole life by SAF — he is not your average underachieving 23 year striker.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

Superintendent Kriner Cash has begun rolling out details of the Buffalo district's latest plan to overhaul underachieving schools.

Web - based learning tools can help deepen science knowledge among all middle school students, and ease the science literacy gap for underachieving students, according to a three - year study published today in the International Journal of Science Education.

The young fellow, an underachieving high school student, suffers from a severe lack of self - esteem, thanks to the relentless tormenting his classmates have poured upon him because they consider him a nerd.

The most promising candidate, Fiona's cousin Artie, an underachieving Medieval high school slacker, proves to be more of a challenge than they bargained for.

A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring.

The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy / drama about an unusual high school student who underachieves in classes because he spends all of his time on extracurricular activities.

It tells the story of Sutter (a very strong Miles Teller), a popular, if underachieving, high school senior.

It makes sense that our dear protagonist would be a fan of Wes Anderson's seminal indie - comedy; its main character, Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), also happens to be an imaginative, underachieving scholarship student who dabbles in theater at a prestigious high school.

Over the past decade, hundreds of BIFF children failing or underachieving in middle and high school have completely overhauled their academic performances, surpassing even BIFF's own goals.

For example, Arlene Ackerman, USP graduate and the former superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, was faced with underachieving schools and a dSchools, was faced with underachieving schools and a dschools and a deficit.

«And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the most resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

The District of Columbia has bonuses for working in impoverished, underachieving schools.

Professor Sonia Blandford, founder and CEO of education charity Achievement for All, which developed and delivers the programme, said: «The UK has one of the widest attainment gaps in education anywhere in the developed world with one - in - five children currently underachieving at school.

The report also found in about a third of primary schools inspected this year, more able children underachieved because their work was not challenging enough.

Given 8,600 underachieving schools nationwide, however, the $ 230 million set - aside can support an average grant amount of only about $ 25,000, assuming each qualifying school receives a grant.

Enlisting the Community to Promote Achievement Concerned that many urban students, especially African - American ones, were underachieving in school, Hugh B. Price made community involvement in local schools a focus of his tenure at the National Urban League as well as the subject of a book.

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.

What happens if now you send a large number of underachieving students to the good school?

His new book, «Endangering Prosperity: A Global View of the American School,» is reviewed by Nathan Glazer in «Underachieving in America»

For instance, parents with children in schools identified as underachieving for two or more consecutive years are guaranteed the right to obtain supplemental educational services such as private tutoring, paid for with their children's share of federal Title I funds.

In collaboration with the principal, transformed the climate and culture of chronically underachieving pre-K to 8 400 - student school.

Ms Spielman was presenting her annual report, which highlighted a small core of persistently underachieving schools.

Parrett is the coauthor of Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools (2003 and 2008); The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty (2007); Hope Fulfilled for At - Risk & Violent Youth (2001); How to Create Alternative, Magnet, and Charter Schools That Work (1997); Hope at Last for At - Risk Youth (1995); Inventive Teaching: Heart of the Small School (1993); The Inventive Mind: Portraits of Effective Teaching (1991); and numerous contributions to national journals and international and national conferences.

Still, what of the thousands of other underachieving students living in poverty and failing in schools that have yet to transform?

In Part III, Working Together: Continuing the Commitment to Lead Underachieving Students in Poverty to Success, we briefly reiterate the interactive, dynamic nature of the components of the Framework for Action and challenge all of us — educators and other stakeholders — to confront the reasons we have not yet ensured that every high - poverty school is high performing.

In Part II, Leading Together: Taking Action to Lead Underachieving Students in Poverty to Success (Chapters 5 through 10), we provide specific examples of the actions that leaders in HP / HP schools have taken to build leadership capacity, foster the necessary learning environment, and improve learning.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA / ESSA) requires districts and schools to develop multi-tiered systems of services, supports, strategies, and interventions for students who are academically at - risk, underachieving, unresponsive, and / or unsuccessful.

Consulting services for MTSS / Response - to - Intervention as it pertains to ESEA / ESSA Act which requires districts and schools to develop multi-tiered systems of services, supports, strategies, and interventions for students who are academically at - risk, underachieving, unresponsive, and / or unsuccessful.

It is a Program Improvement school (the formal designation for Title I — funded schools in California) with large numbers of underachieving African American, Latino, and Asian students.

The 157 - page report also found in about a third of primary schools inspected this year, more able children underachieved because their work was not challenging enough.

The new School Turnaround AmeriCorps program will support the placement of a dedicated cadre of AmeriCorps members in persistently underachieving schools across the country.

As a result of a differentiated literacy program and specific interventions, the percentage of underachieving students in the primary literacy program meeting grade - level literacy benchmarks rose from 55 percent in 2000 to 80 percent in 2003 (Evanston / Skokie School District 65, 2004).

The passage of SB620 in the Senate is, without a doubt, a significant first step in providing Michigan parents with the legal power to transform underachieving schools that are failing their children.

The third believes most schools, and especially those in affluent areas, have never been better, but that schools in inner cities and rural areas sometimes underachieve because of poverty, segregation, and inequality.

Approximately half of the 3 million gifted students in the United States are underachieving because they are not challenged by their school curriculum, and up to 20 percent of high school dropouts test in the gifted range, according to the Handbook of Gifted Education.

Among the reasons for the high costs at low - performing schools are higher costs for security and more programs for underachieving students, which can be very expensive, according to Frank Johnson, an expert on school finances at the Department of Education.

Author of many books including How Children Fail, How Children Learn, The Underachieving School, Teach Your Own, and Learning All the Time.

But the NUT is concerned that those working as advisers on daily pay rates of up to # 840 in schools which are underachieving could have their impartiality compromised by a potential pecuniary interest when inspecting a school.

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

Students who underachieve in some aspect of school per - formance, but whose talents exceed the bounds of what is generally covered in the standard curriculum, have a right to an education that matches their potential.

Gifted E525: Blending Gifted Education and School Reform (1994) E492: Career Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth (1990) E359: Developing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for the Gifted and Talented (1985) E485: Developing Leadership in Gifted Youth (1990) E514: Developing Learner Outcomes for Gifted Students (1992) E510: Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students (1991) E484: Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students (1990) E493: Fostering the Post Secondary Aspirations of Gifted Urban Minority Students (1990) E427: Giftedness and Learning Disabilities (1985) E464: Meeting the Needs of Able Learners through Flexible Pacing (1989) E486: Mentor Relationships and Gifted Learners (1990) E483: Personal Computers Help Gifted Students Work Smart (1990) E494: Supporting Gifted Education Through Advocacy (1990) E478: Underachieving Gifted Students (1990)