Sentences with phrase «schools is less of a problem»

But the results do suggest that traditional lecture - style teaching in U.S. middle schools is less of a problem than is often believed.

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According to Bob Sutton, organizational behavior expert at Stanford's School of Engineering (via HBR), «Scaling is actually a problem of less.»

Wagner offers no broad policy prescriptions in the interview to fix these problems in America's schools, but if you're an individual parent or teacher interested in encouraging an innovative outlook in your kids, he has lots of ideas (less scheduled time, more unstructured play or self - driven exploration, for instance).

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.

Studies show most home school students have fewer «problem behaviours,» when in mixed groups (of home schooled children and non-home schooled children), and home schooled children are much more likely to be better developed socially, more capable of functioning in the real adult world, and less affected by negative peer pressure.

We should all be less concerned about supermarket shoppers being misled (though that's a real problem) and far more worried about the 32 million public school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school children participating in the National School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Lunch Program and the 12 million in the School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times School Breakfast Program, all of whom are offered milk — usually including a flavored milk option — each and every school day, sometimes multiple times school day, sometimes multiple times a day.

My son's school has little problem with unpaid balances as less than 5 % of students would pay full price for meals (and why kids eating all three meals at school is not uncommon).

Eating breakfast is a good habit for your child, though, because fueling the brain after a night's sleep is linked to better grades in school, better behavior, fewer attention problems, and less chance of obesity.

Along with the wonderful milestones, you can expect to see among school - age children such as increased independence and ability to handle more responsibilities, there is also the less - pleasant emergence of common behavior problems for this age group.

Research from the Institute of Education backs this up, showing that children who are read to on a daily basis not only do better when they start school but also have less behavioural problems in class.

9) A lot of really awesome, incredible, motivated, inspiring teachers become burned out, dispirited, discouraged, and less enthusiastic over the years because their effort and hard work is not noticed or seems to be unappreciated, and the undone work, the staggering weight of the unmet needs of students and the problems in a school system become overwhelming.

Children of involved parents are less likely to get into mischief, have emotional problems, or have problems in school.

The broader point being, before we tie ourselves up in knots over more or less vegetables, lets take care of the easy problems, like getting sugar and starch carbs out of school meals.

The issue of breastfeeding ought to be more of a priority in our country.It covers several major problems all in one.Healthcare, economy, environment, jobs (alot more would be created from an increase in nursing than from formula production) our children's performance in school and the rate of college attendance, obesity, and less unwanted pregnancies (sounds harsh but most of our world problems are connected to an exploding overpopulation and a lack of adequate resources).

Mothers will be excluded from the study if they are less than 19 years of age; have a history of institutionalization fro psychiatric reasons; didn't complete secondary level schooling; has a current psychiatric diagnosis, and / or is on psychotropic medication; has no partner (married or de facto) and have significant hearing and or visual problems and or are not fluent in English.

Democrats were skeptical saying Statehouse Republicans wasted time on less important issues instead of addressing school safety and problems with the Department of Child Services.

Dr. Merikangas noted that youth with the inattention subtype of ADHD are less likely to be recognized and treated because their problems may be less apparent at school and at home.

But they add to the «strong, consistent evidence» that people who drink in moderation are less likely than nondrinkers or heavy drinkers to experience health problems such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and dementia, says Qi Sun, MD, the lead author of the study and a nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio

This chapter provides a historical review on service - learning research findings, concluding that the studies generally indicate that students who participate in service learning maintain higher levels of motivation for learning, incur fewer disciplinary problems in the classroom, demonstrate improved attendance, possess higher self - esteem, and are less likely to drop out of school.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

Looking at the study paper there, which has been published recently, the girls start school with more self - regulation skills (things like paying attention, working independently, staying focused on tasks), whereas boys on the other hand, they've got less - developed [self - regulation skills] and at the same time they've got higher rates of «problem behaviours».

At the time, the shortchanging of boys in school and in key areas of social development was less evident as a problem than it is today, and the proponents of policies to advance girls in school were much more prominent.

«Bullying is an issue, but where there are people who the children can talk to and where there are programs in the school, where there is a counsellor or a person they can talk to and where pretty much immediately there is some intervention by an adult... it's less of a problem,» Lietz says.

«A lot of people in special education have a mindset that it's all about compliance, but if you take a step back and understand the purposes of the law, I think you'll see this is less about complying and filling out IEPs left and right, and more thinking about, «Well, how do I problem solve to ensure my school is better meeting the needs of kids with disabilities?»»

A lot of people in special education have a mindset that it's all about compliance, but if you take a step back and understand the purposes of the law, I think you'll see this less as compliance and filling out IEPs left and right, and more thinking about, «Well, how do I problem solve to ensure my school is better meeting the needs of kids with disabilities?»

In response to a Neil Carmichael, who called on the Education Secretary to make the subjects compulsory, Nicky Morgan said: «The vast majority of schools already make provision for PSHE and while the government agrees that making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision, as evidenced by Ofsted's finding that 40 per cent of PSHE teaching is less than good.

Chaired by former New York City schools chancellor Joel I. Klein and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, the task force said the country «will not be able to keep pace — much less lead — globally unless it moves to fix the problems it has allowed to fester for too long.»

Chanin could only reply: «There is no evidence that competition improves the lot for the 96 percent of the students who remain in the troubled Cleveland public school system with less resources and even worse problems.»

Children not helped to become less aggressive during school years are at significant risk for future life problems, including a higher likelihood of anti-social behavior and legal problems as adults.

Problems in public schools do not need to be solved by creating a bunch of charter schools, publicly funded schools with less regulations, like teachers unions rules and school board mandates.

One problem is that disadvantaged students have less of a chance to attend a charter school.

My question: When are we going to come to grips with the fact that this problem deserves nothing less than the equivalent of a declaration of war by urban school districts on the illiteracy of our young children?

Segregated minority schools are almost always segregated by poverty as well as race, and sometimes by language as well; they typically have less experienced teachers, less educated and less powerful parents, more untreated student health problems, and many other forms of inequality (Orfield, 2009).

While the leaders believed that student boredom was a serious problem in elementary through high school, they were less clear on the source of that boredom.

Summary: Young children who share easily, resolve problems on their own, and cooperate with their peers are less likely to drop out of school, commit crimes, or need government assistance, says a new report previewed online in the American Journal of Public Health.

The strong message broadcast by all this research has been less well - received, however, in some schools and districts that still wish for easy solutions to the problem of lagging student achievement.

But many have questioned throwing money at the problem — Newark schools already spend $ 22,000 a pupil, more than double the national average, and like many inner - city districts has hardly seen a return on that investment at test time (less than half of fourth graders are proficient in English).

Many who have seen charters replace traditional public schools report the same problems that New Orleans residents describe: closures of public schools that held neighborhoods together, younger and less experienced teachers, the loss of union jobs, experimental teaching practics that can be rigid or harsh, cherrypicking of students and rapid teacher burn - out.

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.

If absence of highly rated schools impacted every place equally, the problem would be less severe.

The problem here is that with a Common Core «teach to the test» mentality, it is less likely that Precalculus will be offered in high schools in the future meaning that students will not be ready to take Calculus during their first year of college.

But the bigger problem with the district's statement may be this line, which said the 900 students who we know moved to charter schools was too small a number to impact the graduation rate: «Taken together, that is less than 1 percent of all the students in San Diego city schools.»

All too often, school reformers try to skip this work, advocating for their preferred solutions without giving teachers, administrators, parents, and others a chance to decide whether there's a problem at all, much less what sort of problem it is.

While funding and curriculum / testing reform are significant endeavors that need the new governor's attention, he must also look towards an impending problem for all of New Jersey's school: the teaching profession is far less attractive today than it was a decade ago, and without a strong plan to reverse that, funding and curriculum changes will falter.

The fact that such an SSO would probably not provide scholarship support to a Christian school, and that many LGBTQ students attend such schools, is less a problem to Ehrhart than a solution: He believes that gay students would feel more comfortable attending schools that are more supportive of their sexual orientation anyway.

There is also the fear that with poverty comes crime and other problems less prevalent in wealthy areas, not to mention fears of higher tax burdens, sagging schools, and the like.

Math appears to be less of a problem than it used to be for Washington students trying to graduate from high school.

But William Morrison, a social studies teacher at the Academy of Engineering and Green Technology at Hartford Public High School, painted a somewhat less - than - rosy picture in telling me that the testing was problematic because of bandwidth problems.

Berman and McLaughlin (1978), for example, found that some school districts adopted programs for bureaucratic (i.e., compliance) or opportunistic motives (e.g., access to funds, to appear «innovative») and were less successful in facilitating the implementation into practice of those programs than districts that adopted programs as a means of solving previously identified problems in student and school performance.