Sentences with phrase «own educational deficiencies»

It recommends the state provide between $ 12 million and $ 15 million in funding — subject to Regents oversight — to fix some of the educational deficiencies that developed from a lack of local funding.

In addition to the educational deficiencies that frequently frustrate students» progress, students sometimes have difficulty finding out what credits will transfer to a university.

State and local youth - corps programs have provided jobless youths with valuable employment experience, but have done little to remedy participants» educational deficiencies, a new study concludes.

The United States, moreover, has enjoyed robust economic growth despite our educational deficiencies.

It's true that all of these factors have probably compensated for our educational deficiencies.

The increase came in response to a 1986 law requiring local summer programs for disadvantaged youths to include assessment of educational deficiencies and remedial assistance along with work experience.

Also embarrassed by the America Achieves study is the lefty labor Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., which recently released a sophomoric study (see my January 16, 2013, post on the Education Next blog) that tried to use the PISA data to attribute educational deficiencies to the U.S. social structure, not its school system.

And that's just the start of your educational deficiency.

Employment gaps, job - hopping and educational deficiencies can be effectively handled by using the combination format (or the functional format).

Not exact matches

In remembering how children have lived in institutional settings, the older child has been exposed to even more years of vitamin and nutritional deficiency syndrome, poor medical care, a lack of developmental - educational experiences, in addition to being even further «detached» from maternal - caretaker relationships.

«A task force has been set up between my administration and Superintendent Cash where we have staffs that are looking at ways that the city and school district can work together to find deficiencies to further improve educational outcomes in our schools,» the mayor said.

The report listed «educational resource deficiencies» that were familiar to the platoon of school leaders — ranging from increased class size and libraries being repurposed for classrooms to staff cuts and the reduction of pre-K programs from full - day to half - day.

The author, R. Barker Bausell, a biostatistician in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, has come to the conclusion that classroom instruction is hopelessly obsolete, and that the answer to the deficiencies of our educational system is the tutorial model.

The four elements posit LD as: 1) heterogeneous; 2) intrinsic or neurobiological; 3) marked by a significant discrepancy between learning potential (measured intelligence) and academic performance (measured skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and oral language); and 4) not caused by cultural, educational, environmental, or economic factors or by other disabilities (such as mental deficiency, visual or hearing impairments, or emotional disturbance).

In the language of the federal law: «Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.»

Educational institutions should recognize the deficiencies in educational methods and begin significantly improving those methods in order to encourage substantially better critical thinking skills in young adults.

Assata's educational component is designed to integrate historic contributions and experiences of African - Americans into the daily curriculum as a means to expand both subject and content knowledge needed to overcome credit deficiencies.

Because vocational students typically seek to enter the workforce without further training, deficiencies in their preparation are immediately visible — and have contributed to the growth of a multi-billion-dollar «shadow» educational system in the private sector designed to upgrade worker skills.

One of the reasons why the Kindle E-Reader, Nook, and other popular e-readers fail to successfully penetrate the educational system is because of their inability to work with people who have vision deficiencies.

While the methods for communicating with the customer support team can be expanded, Libertex does make up for this deficiency by providing their traders with a comprehensive educational support.

While historically artists» educational backgrounds succeed in equipping them with technical skills, there are often deficiencies in how artists are instructed to navigate the pragmatisms of their careers.

Presided over $ 12.1 million settlement between synagogue and construction company accused of deficiencies in recreational and educational facilities built on synagogue's campus

And I mourn the «Sprinkles» work with the Fred Hollows Foundation to prevent iron deficiency and anaemia in little kids — essential if we are to «close the gap» in educational attainment.