Sentences with phrase «struggling schools figures»

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If we struggled in school, we were expected to show up for extra tutoring and studying until we figured it out (chemistry was nearly the death of me).

Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

My oldest loves school time, but with a little toddler who can't sit still to read a single book, I was struggling to figure out how to feed the need of my oldest while accommodating my youngest as well.

We set up extra tutoring and after school help, etc. while we tried to figure out if she was just struggling or if this required a formal diagnosis.

If your child is no longer enjoying co sleeping but can't figure out how to tell you that or is worried about hurting your feelings or upsetting you, he or she may start to struggle in school due to this stress.

They also struggle with appearing representative of the country given the number of millionaires in Cabinet and the public schooling of senior figures, such as David Cameron and George Osborne.

Outgoing NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has removed Aimee Horowitz, the chief of the struggling Renewal program, and created a cushy new six - figure job for her.

Lameduck schools chancellor Carmen Fariña has removed the chief of the city's struggling «Renewal» program — and created a cushy new six - figure job for her.

And Stiles gives bite to the lead heroine figure, a complicated, sweet girl, struggling to find her way through high school.

Some schools are divided from within, as even the most devout conservative Protestants struggle to figure out exactly what the Bible has to say about whether the classroom environment should be more authoritarian or egalitarian and whether schools should focus on the advancement of all students or expend special resources on the academically gifted — or on those who lag behind.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

To figure out the reason why you struggle in school, below is a list of the most common factors that prevent you from studying better.

On issues big and small, from smarter approaches, to «differentiating instruction» so advanced kids aren't bored and struggling kids aren't left behind, to figuring out how to make recess less Lord of the Flies, to working on getting youngsters more exercise and healthier school meals, and on and on?

Laptops costing four - figure sums were also stolen from primary and secondary schools across the Scottish capital, putting additional pressure on schools that are already struggling with budgets.

Figures from the Department for Education (DfE) show that the number of maintained schools that are struggling to make ends meet is at its highest in six years.

Schools are also struggling to retain staff, with the National Audit Office figures stating 8 % of qualified staff left the profession for reasons other than retirement in 2016.

One day, when he was working to help one of his students figure out a mixed - up schedule, Bustabad discovered that the special education students at his high school were clustered together during the same period — even though they were studying different subjects — and they were struggling to fully learn the material.

The CORE districts are early adopters of the new accountability paradigm: local leaders using multiple measures of school performance and working together to figure out collectively what works best for struggling schools.

Like Chicago, these urban districts — such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis and Cleveland — are struggling to figure out the role of failing neighborhood high schools that have been on life support for decades.

When one of the schools I am supporting struggles, I don't stop until I can work with them to figure out what the problem is and put a plan in place to fix it... but one school recently stumped me.

The small schools pilot will show how we can provide good quality, nutritious and tasty food in a cost effective way, even in an area with small schools that struggle to reach that 100 figure.

Ministers must «come clean» over recruitment figures for a landmark scheme to parachute elite teachers into struggling schools, say union leaders, as questions swirl around the scheme two months before its launch.

The headline, graphics, and the opening of the story — all that most readers will register, unfortunately — focus narrowly on charter school networks» struggles to help figure out how to get more of their graduates to complete college:

Have you sort of always figured, well, charter schools move into neighborhoods where they're needed, or where schools are struggling, or the children need better options?

But in an era of regular testing and crowded schedules, schools in Tennessee have been struggling to figure out how to work recess into the day.

All too often we hear of schools that are challenged or encouraged to «go it alone» and figure out how to address the learning struggles in their schools.

It is a reality that district leaders here have been grappling with for years: The Minneapolis school district suspends an inordinate number of black students compared with white ones, and it is struggling to figure out why.

Each book has a different lesson to learn; from making and losing friends, dealing with bullies or struggling at school to figuring out what you want to do in life.

Colleen struggles to figure out what is at the root of the mystery illness plaguing students at her school.

This explains how a law school student with six - figure debt can be in better financial shape than a dropout from an associate's degree or certificate program, and speaks to the need for targeted policy solutions aimed at those most likely to struggle to repay.