Sentences with phrase «schools in a downward spiral»
«At some point, the slow leak of the most motivated students and families can put traditional schools in a downward spiral they can't recover from,» said Jeffrey Henig, an education professor at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York.
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One of the most replicated findings is that of a downward spiral of under - resourced schools: ratcheted academic pressure, student disengagement, discipline problems, staff mobility, and no stable or meaningful improvements in academic functioning.
Schools in low - income areas spiral downward as poverty concentrates within them.
Last year de Blasio announced that as part of his school renewal plan, he would be giving the lowest performing public schools financial support in hopes that they can turn around their downward spiral.
Just as I predicted when I retired from 10 years of public high school teaching in CT 4 years ago — things would continue to spiral downward.....
Over and over this downward spiral has played out in our communities, producing one round of school closure after another.»
Charters typically siphon off students in these areas who are more likely to succeed thus creating a downward spiral in those neighborhood schools.
«Otherwise it creates a downward spiral, where every public school has an incentive to convert to a charter and / or every family has an incentive to choose a better - funded charter school, leaving fewer and fewer students — and less and less funding — in the regular school system to cover the legacy costs.»
This book reveals the historical roots of the current crisis in ghetto schools and what must be done to reverse the downward spiral.
Investment in these schools where there is a concentration of disadvantage is urgently needed to prevent a downward spiral.
The slowdown of the U.S. economy after 2008 produced a downward spiral in the market for new law school graduates.
After watching iPad unit sales spiral downward for 12 quarters in a row, the company introduced a cheaper model in March to win over schools that were flocking to Chromebooks.