Sentences with phrase «school failure because»

Such experiences are especially important for students at risk of school failure because these programs fill the afternoon «gap time» with constructive and engaging activities.

At - risk children — poor children, children at risk of school failure because of behavioral, emotional or academic issues — benefit more from effective teachers and effective teaching than children who are not at risk (Hanushek et al. 2005).

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We begin to formally educate a child at the age of six, and twelve years later frequently find we have failed, not because school material is intrinsically difficult (the task of learning a new language is much more so, yet the child masters it in thee years); we find failure because we have ignored the fact that the developing personality has a natural sway, to and fro, which Whitehead says results in a «craving» to be continually refreshed by the experience of starting anew.

Others, who also see the situation only as a result of human failure, believe that ministers and schools have been deflected from their purpose and have lost their sense of mission because they have succumbed to the temptation to improve their personal and professional status by doing anything that might make them pleasing to the greatest number of people.

Much older Catholics recall things like the ban on music at a «mixed marriage» — and in some dioceses even the consignment of such a wedding to the sacristy and consequent lack of any sense of celebration — or refusal of the Sacraments because of a failure to send children to a Catholic school.

The issue is the NYC schools are a failure and parents should NOT be forced to send their kids there because its the only option.

Schools across England are in crisis, parliament's spending watchdog has concluded, because of a failure to persuade disenchanted teachers to stay in the profession.

Public primary and secondary schools in Bayelsa have yet to resume for the 2016/2017 session because of the failure of the state government to settle their seven months salary arrears.

It lacks the usual control group, because «you can't go to a school and say we picked you because you're a failure» at providing research opportunities for undergraduates.

Apart from the loss of time, money and resources, these failures are also «tragic because we have so little clinical trial information on children to begin with,» says Florence Bourgeois, an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, who co-authored the study.

Daniel Rader, a cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, remains optimistic, however, that other CETP inhibitors could work, because the failure of Torcetrapib was likely due to «effects on blood pressure that were unrelated to CETP inhibition.»

According to the best available evidence (discussed below), perhaps 2 percent of students are induced to drop out of school either because of failure to pass the exam or because of fear of not being able to pass the exam.

Such information is important because the development of social competencies during middle childhood has been linked to adjustment to schooling and academic success, while the failure to develop such competencies can lead to problem behavior that interferes with success in school (Bennett et al. 2003; Carlson et al. 1999; Farrington 1989; Fors, Crepaz, and Hayes 1999; Malecki and Elliot 2002; McCord et al. 2000; Najaka, Gottfredson, and Wilson 2001; O'Donnell, Hawkins, and Abbott 1995; Trzesniewski et al. 2006; Wentzel 1993).»

Because NCLB is set up to label most American public schools as failures in the next six or seven years.

Maybe it feels easier to share failures with outsiders because you realize all these other schools have them too.

Building an identify safe classroom offers a deliberate strategy to reach students who feel alienated from school because of repeated failure, heavy - handed discipline, or negative stereotypes.

This may be because such a large proportion of students at the school were deemed «failures» by the system and so the parents were happy to see a system that encouraged a sense of eddicacy in their children.

No Child Left Behind only aggravates the problem because it is directed solely at keeping students and the schools that they attend above some failure line.

Parents and other community members — thanks to some local gadflies who began to get the message out — also began paying attention and, for the first time in memory, voted down a school budget in large part because of academic failures.

And because this reframing of failure is modeled so publicly and systemically by the portfolio defenses, our teachers, convinced of its power, tend to recreate similar cycles of failure and redemption in their day - to - day classroom instruction, where school culture lives.

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

A similarly high rate of return is unlikely for most current and proposed pre-K programs because many of the children being served have relatively low levels of risk for school failure, placement in special education, later criminal behavior, or failure to become economically self - sufficient in adulthood.

The need to do something different is pronounced because of the long history of unsuccessful «school turnaround» approaches and the failure of the Obama administration's School Improvement Grant prschool turnaround» approaches and the failure of the Obama administration's School Improvement Grant prSchool Improvement Grant program.

«Wisconsin's superintendent of public instruction took the first step Thursday toward withholding up to $ 175 million in federal funds from Milwaukee Public Schools because of the district's failure to meet yearly academic progress targets required under law.»

Because the effectiveness of a program as sophisticated and multidimensional as Singapore Math can not be thoroughly evaluated in just two years of testing, the story of its failure in Montgomery County says more about school politics and finances than about math programs.

Because so much was at stake, it led some to install low standards, effectively creating a «race to the bottom» to protect against school failure.

In particular, the fact that voucher programs involve a subsidy to religious schools could complicate the analysis, because the Court has occasionally accepted the argument that the failure to provide a subsidy for an activity or institution does not itself constitute impermissible discrimination.

True, desegregation in places like Boston was a failure because it mixed poor whites and poor blacks and spawned white flight by not giving parents any say in the matter of where their children went to school.

Because we were interested in special interventions for students most at risk for failure, we selected 8 schools which had carefully implemented an externally developed, research - proven early reading intervention, including 1 Book Buddies school (Invernizzi, Juel, & Rosemary, 1997), 2 Early Intervention in Reading schools (Taylor, Short, Frye, & Shearer, 1992), 3 schools with Right Start in Reading (Hiebert, Colt, Catto, & Gury, 1992), and 2 Reading Recovery schools (Pinnell, Lyons, DeFord, Bryk, & Seltzer, 1994).

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

Without the agreement, Houston would likely be forced to close campuses or submit to a state takeover of the school board because of failure to improve academics at the schools.

But of course this does not happen now unless we are «lucky» and accidentally hire someone effective by accident because teachers are the cause of all school failure.

But state charter schools education specialist Margaret Bates said the high failure rate could be because of many factors.

This list of «blame» for poor performance is interesting, because it «reframes the issue as a failure of school curriculum and instruction, and less as a failure of individual students.»

Disclosure of school operations, especially as relates to finances, should be mandatory for charters, they say, because the failure of such an institution impacts nearby school districts and the students who are displaced when a charter must close down.

«Voucher schools are in place because of the failure of education in our large urban areas from the public schools,» he said.

Because as a result of the local authority's failure to deal with educational underperformance, children continue to go to a poor school.»

Colleges and Universities that urge their students to tackle the most difficult teaching environments, poor, inner city schools, will run the risk of being labeled «failures,» because the students of those graduates won't score high enough on standardized tests.

In the school choice debate, we should start with a basic premise: No child should be left behind because of failure of the education distribution system to deliver the best possible opportunity for every child.

Because reading is key to success in school, poor readers face a trajectory of failure and decreasing motivation: Students who are not at least moderately fluent in reading by 3rd grade are unlikely to graduate from high school (Slavin, Karweit, Wasik, Madden, & Dolan, 1994).

Let's start with a basic premise about the school choice debate: No child should be left behind because of failure of the education distribution system to deliver the best possible opportunity.

What we found without doubt is that large numbers of students, particularly in the early grades, were being placed in special education because of the failure of the school to properly teach them how to read, and from there they were essentially «warehoused», avoiding corrective intervention along with educator accountability for what is really a literacy issue and an instructional issue.

It is apparent the politicians, unions and judges don't know how to make a better school because throwing money at the problem has been a huge failure.

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They shouldn't feel that they are a failure because the school's focus is on something they can not achieve right away.

For example, science lessons may be interrupted because of fire drills, school announcements, and power failures.

Because there is a range of student temperaments, it is helpful when teachers can be sensitive to the fact that some pupils» motivation levels are impacted by their neurobiological makeup, resulting in the student being less motivated due to a history of school failure or losing motivation quickly with just a few setbacks.

Like plans on paper that can falter in real life, the downfall of the old federal education law, called No Child Left Behind, came when thousands of schools in Illinois and elsewhere were considered failures because too many students flunked state exams.

There are so many stories that I could tell — the story of my guidance counselor's sixth - grade, learning disabled child who feels like a failure due to constant testing, a principal of an elementary school who is furious with having to use to use a book he deems inappropriate for third graders because his district bought the State Education Department approved common core curriculum, and the frustration of math teachers due to the ever - changing rules regarding the use of calculators on the tests.

so, yet again, an academy chain is dumping a school because of its failure to support the school properly, leaving pupils and parents worried about the education.