Sentences with phrase «school failure in»

Prevention of school dropout through the reduction of disruptive behaviors and school failure in elementary school

The signs of school failure in Indianapolis seem overwhelming: from low test scores to high dropout rates, they mirror troubled urban districts around the country.

«I think segregation and economic inequality are the root causes of school failure in this country.

We would however need to know more to identify helpful interventions — for example, is school failure in itself a risk factor, or is poor performance rather an indicator of vulnerability?»

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LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)- Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

LONDON, Jan 15 - Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

As I've stated before, failure happens to everyone — whether in grade school, our personal lives or our professional lives.

In fact, I believe that you are not truly a leader until you have failed, faced down that failure and found a way to overcome it — like I did after I flunked out of prep school.

So far, he has been more keen to highlight the failure of the FBI to stop the Florida high school carnage and the need to fill loopholes in mental health care than to accept the case for changing firearms laws.

The failure to model this dichotomized economy is not the fault of mathematical economics as such, but reflects the constrained reasoning at the hands of the monetarist school that has monopolized economics departments in the world's universities.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Many business schools now include learning from failure courses as part of the entrepreneurship curriculum and self - help networks have formed in the physical and digital worlds allowing business owners to share their experiences and learn from mistakes.

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examined law enforcement agencies» failure to heed multiple warnings about the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, as well as the long record of failed gun control measures in Congress.

Broward County Commissioner Michael Udine said of the many things victims» families are angry about — the shooter's ruthlessness, the response by the armed deputy assigned to the school, the failure of the FBI and BSO in preventing the attack despite specific warnings and red flags, past missteps by the Broward school district and Florida's child - welfare agency, gun policies — the handling of families and the notification process «is down the list.»

This stops bank failures disrupting money and payments and hence helps achieve monetary outcomes desired by the Austrian school of economics: reducing excessive state interference in the market for credit (through bank regulation, lender of last resort and bail - out) and discouraging unsustainable money and credit expansions (leading to financial crisis and depression).

And Brown is surely right that our public schools are, in the main, a national embarrassment; I would add that their failures in our inner urban areas are a crisis of justice lamentably unaddressed on the port side of American politics.

For one thing, these failures and problems describe the public schools as well, especially if you think some of the ideological commitments that animate a great deal of the educational establishment are dangerous in themselves.

Back in school, the report card laid bare our failures.

The failure in this case appears to be that Birmingham City Council had lost control and wasn't carrying out due diligence of its schools and their governing bodies.»

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

There is, as the excellent Mrs Daphne McLeod has pointed out, a «total failure to teach the authentic Catholic Faith in Catholic schools, resulting in a staggering 90 \ % lapsation rate among school leavers».

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Failure to act as direct teacher and dean or principal of a school of discipleship by its pastoral leader probably accounts more than any other single factor for a congregation's inability to mature in its ministry.

It the removal of the Ten Commandments from schools is causing our morals to collapse, that just shows what a failure our churches and Christians have been in their own indoctrination.

Your belief in this is only a testament to the failure of our school systems to teach people science.

Perhaps the major failure in secondary school (where the Precision stage is most in evidence) is that of overlooking the fact that knowledge is being thrown into fresh combinations in the minds of students.

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.

My old man used a razor strop on me from time to time and having no success once paddled himself, with me watching, to demonstrate his failure to rectify my attitude (I had set a vacant lot on fire, smoking cigarettes I'd salvaged from the steps of the Catholic church across the street) In school, you had to bend over and grab your ankles in order to take your lickIn school, you had to bend over and grab your ankles in order to take your lickin order to take your licks.

Failure in love and life is a requisite for success in teaching, and the problems of TV teachers are solved by leaving their profession — not by towns raising taxes, building schools, or giving higher salaries.

Indeed the past thirty years, and the past twenty - three years since the publication of Fr Purnell's work have seen the virtual complete failure of this approach in catechetics and in religious education in our schools.

William Glasser's open - ended classroom meetings, described in Schools Without Failure, are one illustration.

Early school failure may cause the child to feel trapped in a failure cycle - in which each failure increases the probability of another failure.

That is why the analyst himself and his personality form a more important factor in the success or failure of the analysis than the theory or school from which he works.9

Poor performance in the School of Communion translates into failure in the classroom and trouble at work — places where the virtues gained in family life are essential for success.

I am also concerned that gated communities, private schools and a re-emergence of segregation in our schools is only going to exacerbate the problems related to this failure.

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.

Burns, of Jacksonville, Florida, is one of many Jewish men who were dubbed failures by the now - defunct Emory School of Dentistry in Atlanta between 1948 and 1961.

Though our difficulties in the development of the schools have arisen in part from failure to achieve adequate understanding of our ultimate purposes and our total activity, they seem also to be partly due to inadequate theories of the relations of action and reflection.

Don't do this in the middle of an awful work month, school finals, or any other major events (weddings, holidays), or you will set yourself up for failure.

I wish I had hopes for the Mariners, but I'm 35 and was in high school the last time they made the playoffs, so I'm conditioned for failure in that regard.

«If honor is generated in groups,» he said, «and it is, in schools, in the military, then our failures have not been caused by people so much as by institutions which have no structure whereby you get peer approval for honor.»

Died At age 61 of heart failure, George Webster, who in 1969 was voted by Michigan State fans as the best athlete in school history.

Ny GUNNER creates an athmosphere in here that is not plesant or happy, i wonder is he as smart in school, or is he just a failure all round.

She was particularly interested in what she called the «narrative» that exists within each school with regard to success and failure — the messages, subtle and not so subtle, that students receive when they fail.

Don't pose direct questions, especially about serious subjects like school work, problems with social issues, or disappointments and failures in sports, etc..

It is vital to learn these lessons in high school as the adult world is much less forgiving than high school — and young adults with behavioral or developmental problems often experience deeper feelings of failure as they move into their adult identity.

A money shortage, caused by the failure of the state legislature to pass an income tax increase, has set off debate in Woodridge over the sale of 4.5 acres of school property.

Seated in the audience was her 15 - year - old son, Tyler, who in 1998 suffered kidney failure after eating an undercooked school lunch burger that was contaminated with E. coli O157: H7.