Sentences with phrase «on academic struggles»

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Fast forward to the present and the academic solution based on historical experience proffered for these now struggling economies is higher domestic interest rates.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

After school program helping children with academic, behavioral and social struggles by focusing on the root of the issues, the brain.

Address concerns about your child's academic career right away, because waiting and letting them struggle might have a long - term impact on their self - esteem.

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

The new methodology is already challenging widely held beliefs by finding that teachers can not be judged solely on the basis of their academic credentials, that classroom size is not always paramount and that students may actually be more engaged if they struggle to complete a classroom assignment.

On Twitter, he commiserated with others who were struggling in the academic market and connected with rare - disease advocates.

Amazon's latest pilot season consists of three series: I Love Dick, created by Transparent's Jill Soloway and based on a feminist novel about a couple's marital struggles in the academic community of Texas, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn; Jean - Claude Van Johnson, a new action comedy starring the actor as a fictionalised version of himself, in which he moonlights as a secret hit - man in between Hollywood jobs; and The Tick, an updated adaptation of the offbeat comic book, starring Peter Serafinowicz.

But RTI was quickly adopted as a model for overall school improvement because of its focus on providing assistance quickly to struggling students, before any academic deficits have a chance to become entrenched.

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But as our experience teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has shown, most students have an easy time writing extended academic papers but struggle with shorter pieces that express their opinions on educational issues.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

While U.S. schools struggled to reach even an average score on a key international exam for 15 - year - olds in 2012, BASIS Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in Arizona, outperformed every country in the world, and left even Shanghai, China's academic gem in the dust.

On paper, RTI is a pro-active intervention model (not a program) that offers targeted academic support to struggling students.

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In addition to providing rich detail to support his main conclusion — that the so - called «excellence movement,» with its emphasis on increased academic standards, has failed to improve the schools — the book urges a larger agenda to carry the «struggle to reform» through the 1990's.

So they are struggled on their academic works.

The new standards focus so much more on academic language and literacy, and I really have fewer students who struggle with language after they leave my class.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

«Even if they struggle with it, they've gone one - on - one against the academic equivalent of Michael Jordan.

Among the findings and research - driven strategies highlighted throughout the Education Leader's Guide to Reading Growth is data from a recent study that shows «struggling - to - successful» readers read approximately six minutes more per day on average than «persistently struggling» readers — findings that may have a long - term impact on a student's academic career.

The schools» students also struggle with the gap between the academic intensity of their school routines and the more relaxed rules they find when they go home on weekends to their families.

This groundbreaking program melds best practices in mathematics instruction with advances in developmental and social psychology and in research on struggling learners to shape students» engagement, confidence, and commitment to challenging academic programs.

Close Analytic reading incorporates academic language vital to EL's and struggling readers, a focus on work study so that students begin to see how words work together, fluency so that all students are on the same footing for discussing text and writing from text using evidence.

But, of course, when kids do poorly on academic measures, it's often because they're struggling with problems that aren't academic at all — something's happening at home, or they're depressed, or they can't afford glasses, and so on.

NEA's Priority Schools Campaign is working with Roberts and other priority schools to provide tips and techniques on how the community can work together in struggling schools, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all students.

PPEP TEC provides a valuable academic option for at risk students, but the school's biggest accomplishments lie in the stories of students who struggled, but are now on track for future success.

Although past professional development in Bayside has focused on increasing the quantity of student - talk, the teachers of Bayside have struggled to provide structures promoting quality academic discourse.

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

Summer learning loss can have compounding effects on academic achievement — if a student is already struggling with learning to read, a summer setback can make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to learn by fourth grade.

Other highly gifted children attend regular classrooms, but instead of working at appropriate academic levels and having «an equal opportunity to struggle» (Morreale, 1993), spend much of the school day tutoring others in cooperative learning groups or reviewing curriculum that they mastered years ago on their own (Robinson, 1990; U. S. Department of Education, 1993).

Duncan has dispensed plenty of tips: Lift restrictions on the growth of charter schools; build data systems that show individual student progress under specific teachers and principals; seek out new ways to turn around perennially struggling schools; and sign on to efforts to develop common academic standards that are tough enough to withstand international scrutiny.

Her focus had always been on producing plays throughout the year, giving students who struggle in more academic classes a chance to shine.

Too much emphasis on the immediate needs of the trust risks creating «fragile» professionals who struggle to adapt, which is a good reason for a certain amount of academic and theoretical input in teacher training, to ensure our teachers are versatile and able to apply their skills in different settings.

As their classmates focus on the scientific concept being studied, ELLs often feel left behind as they struggle to decipher between academic and vernacular English.

With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.

The pressure on academic subjects is pushing life skills out of timetables — and organisations trying to support schools are struggling to get them back in.

On April 16, Howard Blume reporting for the Los Angeles Times said, «Austin Beutner has emerged as a leading contender to run the Los Angeles school district, with backers saying he is smart enough and tough enough to confront its financial and academic struggles.»

We focus on addressing challenges and improving the academic success of students who are struggling and at - risk so they meet state academic standards.

Included are a set of training modules on cross-curricular vocabulary, comprehension strategies, and academic writing; a diagnostic and progress - monitoring instrument; and guidance for intensive interventions targeting the needs of struggling adolescent readers.

On top of the academic challenges that presents, the report showed that many English - learners continue to struggle once they enter the workforce.

And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has seen student achievement improve in certain measures — almost all grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.

After years of innovation and academic growth, my school added a new program to bring in struggling students from another institution — and the state rewarded us by putting us on a list of «failing» schools and forcing us into a voucher program.

Opened in 2012, the school had struggled with academic performance, leadership, enrollment and other issues, and was on the verge of being closed by the City of Milwaukee's chartering authority.

By implementing culturally responsive teaching using the MALP ® instructional model, we can more effectively transition struggling ELs to a new and different reality, one in which they see themselves as successful learners in a learning paradigm centered on literacy, school - based ways of thinking, academic discourse, and decontextualized tasks.

On a recent morning, a principal and teacher at Rise Academy — a KIPP charter school named for a Maya Angelou poem in this New Jersey city — are discussing the academic performance and personal struggles of a student.

The Academic Intervention Teacher Checklist is a template for a form used to document interventions to aid a student struggling in academic classes before an Initial Referral is made to the Committee on Special EdAcademic Intervention Teacher Checklist is a template for a form used to document interventions to aid a student struggling in academic classes before an Initial Referral is made to the Committee on Special Edacademic classes before an Initial Referral is made to the Committee on Special Education.

More time is spent on studies and academic pursuits rather than struggling to be safe.»

Despite the extensive research showing the negative impacts of ACEs on children's academic achievement and overall wellbeing, many schools and communities continue to struggle to support children who have experienced trauma and adversity.

About Catapult Learning: For nearly 40 years, Catapult Learning has been dedicated to improving academic achievement for students from Pre-K to grade 12, with a special focus on intervention for struggling learners, building teacher and instructional leader capacity, and supporting students who previously dropped out of school.