Sentences with phrase «schools lose learning time»

There's one month, however, when students in many schools lose learning time: June.

According to one recent UFT survey of its members, «more than 80 percent of the respondents said students in their schools lost learning time as a result of other disruptive students.»

Not exact matches

Kids have their lives so structured these days, from after school tutoring to soccer practice, that free time to explore and imagine their own games and learn from their friends is lost.

At the same time, their parents attended training sessions to learn the skills that will ensure that gains made in this inspiring week are not lost during the school year.

An investigator for a non-profit law firm told us he enrolled in Saving Schools to better understand his clients: «I am most interested in learning about the forces in American education that... graduate significantly underperforming students that too often end up serving adult hard time, or losing their lives, in correctional facilities».

But how do schools find time for collaborative planning and professional learning without losing instructional time?

I know who should be held accountable when tests cause undue duress in students, students are put into unrealistic pressure - cooker, toxic learning environments, student needs go unmet due to diverting finances to untested standards, students lose months of instructional time due to state - imposed distraction — all this to the full knowledge and concern of school superintendents, etc, etc

The report's authors contend that the high number of suspensions and the large discrepancies in the populations of students who are suspended are extremely troubling not only because of the lost learning time, but also because suspensions are a leading indicator of whether a child will drop out of school and face future incarceration.

Chronic absence is especially challenging for students from low - income communities whose families face greater hurdles to getting to school and have fewer resources to make up for lost learning time.

School committee member Amy Middleton urged that the change be implemented in the fall of 2016, noting that «[w] e lose an hour of quality learning time each day because children are exhausted by 2 p.m.» The district's two elementary schools will advance their start time by one hour to 7:45 a.m..

According to a 20 - year study done at Johns Hopkins University, and cited in a Time magazine cover story about summer learning loss, «low - income elementary school students lost ground in reading each summer, compared with their higher - income peers, who made progress.»

According to this article on the Harvard Graduate School of Education's website, students lose approximately 2.6 months of math learning over the summer, and teachers have to use class time to make up for the loss, preventing them from moving forward.

How many times have you seen students lose interest in learning because school bored them?

«Aggregated data won't show grade & school - site specific issues,» he continues, «which can cause Districts to focus strictly on average daily attendance (ADA) rates rather than performance predictors, such as absences and lost learning time.»

One of the key barriers to better classroom performance is that over an average academic career, a foster youth will change schools six times and lose about five months of learning after each transfer.

Green Dot argues that their in - school suspension (ISS) is not a time of learning lost, but rather a time of personal and academic growth: