Sentences with phrase «schools as a whole poor»

Americans today give the public schools as a whole poor marks.

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He said the whole region can only boast of two (2) grade «A» Schools as compared to eight (8) in Ashanti and Eastern Regions and he believes that accounts for students» poor show in STEM Examinations.

Unfortunately, even though it did allow Diaz to swear it up as promised, that's all it really boiled down to — crass, unfunny humor and as a whole comes off as a poor man's Bad Santa except set in a school.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

Most of the 11 states want to focus on low - performing students as a whole — a U-turn from the NCLB law, in which poor performance by a small cohort of at - risk students could sink a school's rating.

«Making schools favour poorer children would revolutionise school intakes, but if schools are left to make their own choices few would give preference to disadvantaged pupils because, on the whole, educating them is much more demanding as many need far more help and resources.

Today, thanks to this system of tracking freshmen attendance and grades, Chicago's high school graduation rate is up more than 20 percentage points and is approaching the national average, despite having a student population that is much poorer than the nation as a whole.

Although these families live in wealthy black neighborhoods themselves, the school districts as a whole are usually not as wealthy compared to white suburbs because they have a closer proximity to poorer black areas (Lacy, 2007).