Sentences with phrase «poor learning efforts»

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Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.

The other draws on the deep experience of a compassionate teacher who finds fault not with teachers, unions, or students, but with a society that refuses to take responsibility for the conditions in which its children live and learn — and who has demonstrated through her own efforts how one dedicated teacher has improved the education of poor young people.

At last, grueling effort has translated into test score gains at a school serving poor, minority students and a continually increasing number of children with learning and emotional disabilities.

They don't want to waste precious time, energy, and effort trying to learn something they may only apply a few times during their lifetime, and they certainly don't want to risk writing a poor resume that results in being passed over for a position.

They don't want to waste time, energy and effort trying to learn something they may only apply a few times during their lifetime, and they certainly don't want to risk writing a poor resume that results in being passed over for a position.