Sentences with phrase «poor academic performance of its students»

The school originally chose to redesign itself into an SF institution because, besides having many special programs to help high - risk youth, it was still experiencing extremely high drop - out rates, low rates of college enrollment among its graduates, and poor academic performance of its students.

Not exact matches

«Texas is frequently heralded as a successful model for the nation of how tests can improve the academic performance of students, particularly poor and minority students,» says Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project.

Educators interpreted poor academic performance as the inevitable effect of poverty outside of school and a lack of curricular relevance and student engagement inside the classroom.

Concerns over our educational system, fueled by our students» poor performance in international comparisons of achievement, have reinvigorated the call for early academic instruction as a remedy for inadequate teaching later on.

But even since they launched, e-schools have received negative press for their poor academic performance, high attrition rates, and questionable capacity to educate the types of students who choose them.

The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers» lack of «cultural competence» contributes to the poor academic performance of the state's minority students.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

He says that American students» poorer academic performance necessitates an upheaval of the current educational program.

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

A growing body of research indicates that students whose parents are deployed in active war zones or have experienced frequent moves due to job relocations often experience many emotional ups and downs, including depression, acting out or negative behavioral adjustment, poor academic performance, and increased irritability and impulsiveness.

Since founding OCS in 2004, whose mission is to serve students from all backgrounds regardless of previous academic performance, and where 54 % of our students currently have an IEP, proficiency scores will always be a poor indicator of our success.

After the governor declares a state of emergency in a district due to finances, poor academic performance, or concerns for student safety, the superintendent and the school board are immediately removed.

Berliner seemed to shield teachers from much of the responsibility for poor academic performance by students as he testified that conditions beyond the classroom — he mentioned about nine of them — account for 60 percent of what influences a student's scholastic achievement whereas in - school factors such as class size, curriculum, the quality of the principal and the teacher account for only 20 percent.

According to the results from the 2007 - 08 Academic Performance Index, a statewide assessment, 12 of the 15 most rapidly improving public schools that primarily serve poor students are charters.

Furthermore, Bryk & Schneider (2003) found that when school trust levels were high, so was student achievement and inversely weak levels of trust was significantly linked to poor academic performance.

CCRPI moves schools away from the all or nothing, pass / fail mentality that repeatedly doomed schools with poor academic performance to the lowest rungs — especially those serving a high number of students in poverty.

In fact, he said that thinking of virtual charter schools as complete alternatives to traditional schooling might even be contributing to students» poor academic performance.

In a post featured on the Huffington Post's Education page, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel explains how «local teachers unions are stepping up to the challenge of raising academic performance» in schools serving high populations of poor students.

MarylandCAN chose to focus on Baltimore, a district that arguably faces the biggest hurdles in the state: high concentrations of low - income students and a history of poor academic performance.

Argall agreed that for «some children,» arrival with an already poor academic standing could contribute to the poor performance, but he said he doubts this is true for the majority of students.

Missing at least 10 percent of the school year, particularly in early grades, studies show, reduces the likelihood that students will read proficiently by 3rd grade, increases the chances of poor academic performance in middle school and increases the likelihood that students will drop out in high school.

ACT Engage is able to identify students who are at risk of poor grades and dropout, beyond measures of academic performance alone.

Three out of five teachers say they have children in their classrooms that regularly come to school hungry.1 These students are unable to concentrate, often have headaches and stomach aches, and demonstrate poor academic performance.

CAAP works to improve outcomes for students at risk of poor academic performance and dropping out of school.

And on virtually every international assessment of academic proficiency, American secondary school students» performance varies from mediocre to poor.»

Students with poor academic performance should receive more attention from their teachers, because Chinese society emphasises academic performance and those with poor performance may have higher levels of frustration, poor self - esteem and hopelessness.