Sentences with phrase «poor standards of education»

He added: «Moreover, the parliamentary under - secretary of state for schools has recently acknowledged that the Al - Madinah Free School is «delivering an unacceptably poor standard of education», and I am extremely concerned that this situation could be indicative of a systemic complacency on standards.»

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As a result, the poor are forced to send their children to public schools, many of which are failing, by any standard, to provide a useful education.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

A Higher Education Bill will force universities to come clean over data that reveals poor standards and see a cut in the level of tuition fees they charge.

The Department for Education has ordered the closure of one of the government's flagship free schools, after inspectors found that it had «unacceptably poor» standards.

The opposition leader said that the proposals were a «poor attempt» by the conservative government to «duck their record» on education, which he said had «seen classes grow to the largest in Europe, teachers flocking to leave the profession as pay and conditions stagnate and a raft of corruption scandals at unaccountable Tory academies that have failed to deliver the promised improvements in standards».

The figure compares with three quarters of residents in Newcastle - Upon - Tyne, which was recently criticised by Ofsted for poor standards in secondary education.

Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of Teachers.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

This is an argument that draws wide support from educational bodies and providers, as REC Education regularly meets with teaching unions, government departments and local authorities, creating consensus that teacher absence should not lead to a poorer standard of teaching.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

A former U.S. Secretary of Education (1993 - 2001), he helped launch initiatives to raise academic standards; improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; increase family and business involvement in education; promote afterschool acEducation (1993 - 2001), he helped launch initiatives to raise academic standards; improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; increase family and business involvement in education; promote afterschool aceducation; promote afterschool academic...

Stephen Willoughby, who is also chairman of New York University's department of mathematics education and a longtime leader in the field, urged the nctm to take steps to see that standards are maintained and said members should approach their congressmen and their state and local officials to draw attention to the problem of poor teacher - training.

Serving for both of President Clinton's terms, Riley helped to launch many historic initiatives to raise academic standards, improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged, modernize schools, expand grant and loan programs for higher education, and improve teaching, among other significant advances.

Our lack of a national curriculum, national teacher training standards and federal financial support to attract smart young people to the teaching profession all contribute mightily to the mediocre - to - poor performance of American students, year in and year out, on international education assessments.

He also finds it particularly interesting that Common Core foes say they want high - quality education for all children, yet fail to consider that their opposition to the standards hurts poor and minority kids as well as middle class white and Asian children in suburbia, both of which have few options — including vouchers and charter schools — to which they can avail in order to get high - quality education.

In 2014, the State Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled that the state was failing to provide the poorest districts — known as the state's «corridor of shame» — with enough funding to meet the constitutional standard of a «minimally adequate education.»

The key aims of the programme, the government says, are to improve standards of education in England, particularly for poorer pupils - and to give parents more choice.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

Chief inspector Ann Keane said eradicating poor standards of literacy was one of the main challenges facing education in Wales.

Following a poor set of results in 2010, the then Education Minister Leighton Andrews introduced a series of measures designed to drive up standards in Welsh schools.

In addition to the fact that untrained teachers were hired and teachers were assigned out of field, college admissions standards were lowered for teacher education programs: Teachers, on average, had poorer academic records and test scores than other college graduates, and many teacher education programs lowered their expectations to accommodate their clientele.

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

That benchmark lies somewhere in the intersection between your savings objectives (retirement, education, a new car), the performance of widely - accepted benchmarks (the US Standard & Poor's 500 index, the DAX, the price of gold and more) and your investments.