Sentences with phrase «school failure rather»

That's a huge embarrassment to a mayor and his union allies who spend their time excusing public school failure rather than redressing it.

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Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, a district as large as ours (300 schools) faces unique challenges in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.

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?»

Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

Education Week quoted a former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, who blamed the proposal's failure on the fact that it «would have applied to nearly all teachers, rather than allowing veterans the choice of opting into the new system.»

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

As part of creating this space, it is important to begin with the learning in mind; that is, what will teachers and the school learn as part of the process, rather than whether the new idea is going to be a success or a failure.

Let's first consider the possibility that it was the stigma of being labeled a failure, rather than the competitive incentives introduced by vouchers, that spurred improvement among F schools, as several researchers have suggested.

Restorative practices let schools grow as a community and give students permission to learn from failure and forgiveness rather than punishment.

A new book published by the Council of Chief State School Officers offers educators ways to respond to two criticisms of history instruction: its failure to promote democratic values and its heavy reliance on textbooks rather than original - source materials.

Now, rather than being able hide from their about - face on the critical issue of school funding, Governor Malloy and Attorney General Jepsen will be facing a court trial on Malloy's failure to deal with Connecticut's unconstitutional school funding system right in the middle of the election.

But what transpired there, or rather what did not transpire there, is emblematic of the intrinsic failures of a public school monopoly that does not demand market accountability.

Accountability: As the city moves toward a landscape that is devoid of failing schools, New Orleans may develop an accountability system that better fits a system of schools where the threat is mediocrity rather than failure.

Observations that students in the middle of the school year are encountering items that reflect end of the year skills does not indicate a failure in alignment to the standard, but rather demonstrates clear alignment with the standard and indicates the student's current relative mastery of all the skills to be learned.

However, schools that focus primarily on raising test scores, implement RTI as a series of discrete actions rather than an on - going process, implement RTI mostly to comply with the law, or see student failure as a failure in learning will struggle to reap the benefits of RTI.

«Young people are let down in their own understanding and ability to see history as a chronology rather than as episodes by the persistent failure of schools and others to provide teachers with an opportunity to attend and have access to training and development,» the association said in a statement.

My thought about that response was that this is not ownership, but rather a process of putting their success (or failure) onto the school.

The definition focuses on student failure and «environmental, familial, economic, social, developmental or other psychosocial factors» rather than school holding power and school factors that failed students.

I also agree with some NCLB critics: it unfairly labeled many schools as failures even when they were making real progress — it places too much emphasis on absolute test scores rather than student growth — and it is overly prescriptive in some ways while it is too blunt an instrument of reform in others.

Rather than merely labelling failure, accountability should provide information on school progress and inspire a culture of continuous improvement.

«As we learned from last year's tests, seven - year - olds are too young for formal exams and suffer stress and worry at a time when they're supposed to be learning to love school and grow in confidence rather than fearing failure.

The unfortunate outcome of the focus on the research of these individuals is that policymakers and practitioners are being given further reason to view achievement gaps as the cognitive problems of individuals rather than the result of failures in the structures of our schools and societal policies.

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.