Sentences with phrase «poor school attendance by»

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By the time he was in junior high, Derrick was already a talented running back, but «he had very poor attendance and very, very poor classroom performance,» says Miriam Williams, a junior high school teacher who eventually took Thomas under her wing.

While the program continues to generate a lot controversy in more affluent schools (lost class time, sanitation issues and concerns about the nutritional quality of the food), our Food Services department has said that in poorer schools the program has been enthusiastically welcomed by principals who are seeing increased attendance, reduced tardiness and fewer discipline problems.

By all accounts, young Charlie wasn't an especially distinguished student; though he was a star on Santa Monica High School's baseball team, he was expelled due to poor attendance and bad grades only a few weeks before his class graduated.

According to Goodman a «likely explanation is that schools and teachers are well prepared to deal with the coordinated disruptions caused by snow days — much more so than they are to handle the less dramatic but more frequent disruptions caused by poor student attendance.»

If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?

In several schools, poor attendance records were improved by changing the homeroom period to mid-morning, when more students had arrived.

As the «school employer,» I know that I am far more likely to motivate an uninterested student with poor attendance to show up, and therefore make it more likely that she will pass my class and graduate, by telling how much we missed her during her absence rather than by giving her a zero on missed assignments.

If you run a small school in a poor city, and you're trying to boost outcomes for your students by awarding scholarships to encourage attendance and achievement, do you give the scholarships to the best students, or to the neediest?As it turns out, both pathways have beneficial effects on...

By sixth grade, poor attendance is a proven indicator of whether a child will drop out of high school, regardless of economic background (Balfanz, Herzog, & MacIver, 2007).

City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.

The emphasis on school attendance is backed by research by Robert Balfanz, one of the nation's leading dropout experts, who found that three - quarters of all dropouts can be identified as early as sixth grade due to poor attendance, poor behavior or failure in English or math.

Our model's foundation is based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Social Organization of Schools showing that up to 75 % of America's high school dropouts can be identified between sixth and ninth grades by the presence of one or more indicators: poor attendance, poor behavior, and course failure in English orSchool of Education's Center for Social Organization of Schools showing that up to 75 % of America's high school dropouts can be identified between sixth and ninth grades by the presence of one or more indicators: poor attendance, poor behavior, and course failure in English orschool dropouts can be identified between sixth and ninth grades by the presence of one or more indicators: poor attendance, poor behavior, and course failure in English or math.

Poor oversight when it comes to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology were only some of problems the report found with CAVA and were echoed by Golovich, who was not involved in the compilation of the study.

Statistics on the parental responsibility measures used by schools and local authorities to improve poor pupil attendance, including penalty notices, parenting orders and parenting contracts.

Information on parental responsibility measures for attendance used by schools and local authorities to improve poor attendance in schools.