Sentences with phrase «poor student»

Study, former teacher recount troubling management practices and poor student outcomes Former California Virtual Academy (CAVA) employee Jan Cox Golovich left her job as an online high school teacher a year ago, when she decided the students she...

Poor student learning outcomes inspired us to teach more, teach faster, and ask students to digest content at younger ages.

Indeed, some have suggested that ending social promotion in Chicago simply transferred responsibility for poor student performance to the students, parents, and after school and summer programs, in effect removing the burden from teachers (see Figure 1).

Poor student achievement?

Examine Instruction: Educators look at how classroom instruction has affected poor student performance in areas revealed by digging into the data.

Opponents also state that there are often poor student outcomes in community college education and so while access may be improved through the American College Promise, quality in community colleges should also be considered as a factor.

They are campuses with depressingly low pupil achievement, poor student - level growth, and very little successful teaching and learning in their classrooms.

How much of a correlation is there, if any, between the two, and what metrics are most reliable to determine who's at fault for poor student achievement?

Poor conditions or lack of school facilities, low - quality teachers, teacher shortages, poor student - teacher interactions, geographic access to school, less challenging courses and student boredom

The Aldine Independent School District in Texas won the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education last week for its progress in educating an overwhelmingly poor student population.

Since a teacher had to score at least 64 points to avoid the «ineffective» rating, according to the Regents» plan, it was conceivable, as the judge noted, that «the regulation allows for an «ineffective» rating based solely on poor student achievement results (the first 40 % category) without regard to the 60 % evaluation category.»

Faced with poor student performance on tests and assignments, teachers often recognize that the root of the problem lies, not in a lack of understanding, but in poor study skills.

California auditors released a scathing assessment of the Oakland public schools last week, blasting one of the state's most beleaguered districts for mismanagement and poor student achievement and warning that it is hovering on the brink of serious financial difficulty.

It's significant and not commented upon further than mentioning it, that Shanghai teachers spend 4 % less of their class teaching time maintaining order - we in many Australian schools experience poor student respect for authority and a poor respect for education itself.

Lawrence, Massachusetts, has long been plagued by poor student achievement.

«Our decision today should... not be taken as excusing the school district's actions, or as condemning Myisha for being a poor student,» Gorsuch wrote.

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.»

The current research consensus points to high - poverty schools facing disproportionate challenges: that is, to get the same outcome, they need more resources per student — and per poor student.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

Title I formulas now provide extra funds per poor student in poorer places.

Adding union muscle to the argument, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten calls poverty «the elephant in the room» that accounts for poor student performance.

For example, in Baltimore City, where about three - quarters of schools already participate in Title I, portability would result in a loss of about $ 200 per poor student in schools now receiving funds.

Within school districts, Title I funds would follow each poor student to the school he or she attends, public or private.

The distinction between Title I and non-Title I schools would vanish, as any school enrolling even one poor student would receive Title I funds.

I then assume that each school district receives that amount for each poor student enrolled in 2014 - 15: that is, I assume that no students take their vouchers to private schools.

«If the trouble with New York City schools is poor student achievement, it seems that whether principals are tenured or not, or make a lot of money or not, are both far removed from the problem,» adds Lazarski.

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

So, what's a poor student to do?

So I guess the best way to put it is that I'm a poor student again.

I break out in a sweat just standing still, I once took an actual nap in a PE lesson (again, really sorry to that poor student teacher), and I'm not even sure if «exerciser» is a word.

As a poor student I have seen naturopathic doctors, interns, chiropracters and massage therapists as a patient.

In contrast, Rankin and others say, the relationship between poor instruction and poor student learning is easy to understand.

Educators across the state are protesting Cuomo's demands, saying they rely too heavily on standardized testing, ignore the challenges of poverty in some districts and put the brunt of poor student performance too squarely on individual teachers.

A poll out this week showed only 1 in 10 voters believe teachers are to blame for poor student performance.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

«I didn't like the old system because 15,000 was too low a threshold; poor student support was rubbish; and universities didn't provide enough information on what students get for their cash.

The governor proposes increasing education funding by $ 1.1 billion (only half of the $ 2.2 billion that nearly every education and student - focused organization in the state is demanding), but only if the legislature agrees to draconian education reforms that mistakenly blame teachers for poor student outcomes in underfunded, high need, low wealth districts.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

According to the New York Post, the Board of Regents will pass a proposal on Tuesday allowing educators to blame the rollout of the Common Core standards as a reason for poor student performance:

A young man at Stanford tells this story: He had been a poor student in high school.

They don't even have to be expensive (I'm a poor student, and Primark has a great selection of things, even for bigger ladies like me)

Naughty, I know... Any tips on how to shred them sans mandoline (still have not added that to my poor student kitchen supply)?

Tuna in salad is not really a personal favorite for me, might be since I ate too much tuna when I went to school (simple and cheap food for a poor student).

I first made it when I was a very poor student since onions and cream is cheap, and I put the money I had left into a good slice of parmesan at my local cheesemonger.

So I googled «what to do with chick p's & pasta», as that's all I had in the cupboard (poor student).

Sometimes being a poor student just plain sucks.

It is the poor student who is supposed to take all this in, regurgitate it back and accept it as accepted scholarship.

i just wanted to say, that if i were not a poor student, i would totally buy this painting.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Plus «the first porn president,» the university that serves poor students best, and more.