Sentences with phrase «students as a burden»

We do not see servicing the needs of special education students as a burden, but as a necessity.

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Scarred by the financial crisis, and often juggling student loan and other debt burdens, debt is correctly viewed as something that can upend or even sink a business.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

* Cities are ranked from highest to lowest student loan & housing costs as a percentage of monthly income (i.e. highest to lowest student loan and housing costs burden).

Make a $ 450,000 home loan with 3 % down to a couple making $ 35,000 a year working at Starbucks; already burdened with $ 90,000 in student loans, $ 20,000 in credit card debt and FICO scores of 610, after they tell the loan officer they make $ 120,000 as senior managers of a large multi national corporation When they default on the home loan, file bankruptcy to discharge student and credit card debt and start living in section 8 housing, you now have a new brother and sister.

Besides saving students thousands off of their cumulative student debt burden, this payment strategy sets the stage for future personal finance skills — such as budgeting, and making small sacrifices in the present that will bring big rewards in the future.

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

I was reading Bunyan because the college I attended back in New York City had imposed it as a burden that all of us students had to carry up the Hill of Difficulty.

Male students feel the burden as they learn firsthand how women students are revising the theological language, ministerial practice, and self - understanding associated with a profession too long captive to the interests of men.

Still, there is no way that, for this Jerusalemite and all other Israeli husbands and fathers» along with students at university who miss their exams, and beginners in new jobs or careers who are one way and another bound to be set back» the burden of yearly, as I like to think of it, «fulfillment» is not at the least a nuisance and more often than not downright onerous.

The tradition of the scientific handbook as a concise, accessible source of validated information emerged in the late nineteenth century when the factual burden of scientific and medical subjects began to overwhelm students.

Right now the financial component isn't as much of an issue because I have student loans, but I'm trying to advance my family without creating a major burden down the road.»

While Zimpher praised the five - year plan as providing a predictable increase in funding, Frederick Kowal of United University Professions, the union that represents SUNY professors and other employees, said that state support has gone down over the long term, placing more of a burden on students and their families.

He says assisting students from the two Caribbean territories will remove a «huge burden» as their families work to recover from the storms.

«At their worst, they will exclude students who make teaching too much of a challenge and who are traditionally excluded, thus perpetuating established inequalities and resigning us to a permanent underclass that is regarded as a worthless burden on the state.»

Bloomberg said the burden of paying back student loans from top colleges sometimes causes those interested in teaching not to consider it as a career choice.

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.

You've heard good, bad, and ugly stories from postdocs as they navigate the murky area between the roles of student and junior faculty, between trainee and professional, and between apprentice and employee, often with the burdens of each role and the benefits of none.

The problem is likely to get worse as the burden of payment shifts to industry: For companies to justify the expense — ranging from $ 6000 to $ 10,000 per consultant — the student participants must offer a real service during the consultancy's short duration, Forest says.

For example, if as a graduate student your professor asks you to do some extra work, such as preparing a workshop or putting together a research proposal, then don't regard it as a burden.

The NSB report acknowledged these sacrifices as «costs to the students in lost opportunities they might otherwise have pursued, the quality of life during the educational period, and the debt burden incurred while pursuing a degree.»

For many PIs this is likely to be viewed as an extra burden; indeed, PIs who view their graduate students and postdoctoral trainees mainly as a labor force are likely to find the burden quite onerous.

Recommendation: Given the research indicating that the GRE and PGRE are poor predictors of graduate student success, that their use in graduate admissions has a particularly negative impact on underrepresented groups, and that they represent a financial burden for many students in pursuing advanced degrees in the astronomical sciences, the AAS recommends that graduate programs eliminate or make optional the GRE and PGRE as metrics of evaluation for graduate applicants.

Challenges: Teacher training / PD and classroom resources will need to be provided to enable effective and efficient implementation; Funding for relief teachers whilst teachers administer the test; Not addressing the flaws in the UK Phonics Screening Check / inaccurately tests students; Not providing funding / resources to support students identified through the check as at risk; Additional workload for teachers including, impact on time to administer tests; Duplication of existing tests and / or additional testing burden; Stress or anxiety for students and parents; Some commented writing was a key element that needs to be in the test.

«In these times of recession and pay - as - you - go sweeping the country, this seems like a great way to fund higher education for students, without further burdening taxpayers,» says Kanter, who came to Washington, D.C., in 2009 after working for three decades in the California community college system.

The system also requires examining funding, training, minimizing the burden of assessment on students and schools, and integrating health concerns of children as well.

For educators who work with immigrant students, the weight of that burden requires new support services and a distinctive kind of outreach, particularly as young people move through high...

Schools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far less cost.

The act burdens the states as well as local districts, imposing obligations to develop academic standards, test all students annually in grades 3 through 8, hire «highly qualified» teachers in core subjects, and reconstitute persistently failing schools in order to remain eligible for federal aid.

This struck me as a triple win: the students had a high - quality learning experience, the teacher had a rewarding professional experience, and the burden of creating the unit was shared among a group of teachers rather than each teacher laboring in isolation.

Similarly, in Vergara, there may be measures that school districts could take to reduce the burdens of ineffective teachers on low - income students, but such measures are costly, increase with the number of low - income students and, as in Serrano, those costs are just another form of burden placed by state law on low - income schools and districts.

... For as long as this topic is a black - box topic, the burden of being «other» is still on the transgender student and their families.»

Yet all too often, they are presented as the solution to all the underachieving that burdens our students and schools.

Removing the need for paper - based evidence and portfolios, and offering technology such as smartphone apps will help to put the power back into teachers» hands and reduce the overall burden, allowing them to focus on the main priority: teaching their students.

And research has found that students who receive praise for being smart — as opposed to praise for effort and progress — are more inclined to exaggerate their performance and to cheat on assignments, likely because they are carrying the burden of lofty expectations.

For younger students whose attention spans are short, you can reduce the burden on memory and attention as follows.

[24] There is no evidence to suggest the these laws as a whole have reduced chronic absenteeism, and critics point out that they impose harsh and undue burdens on poor families and students with disabilities.

As I note in my latest paper, «Interdistrict Choice for Students in Failing Schools: Burden or Boon?»

[1] While the election results dashed those specific proposals, the idea continues to appeal to many policymakers as a way of addressing rising college prices, growing student debt burdens, and unequal access to higher education institutions.

Their proposed treatment of tuition / fee waivers as unearned income would clearly present a burden to students.

[C] harter schools are pulling large numbers of students from the private education market and present a potentially devastating impact on the private education market, as well as a serious increase in the financial burden on taxpayers.

Individual schools would receive federal funds based on student counts, with a weighting formula to adjust for factors such as the increased burden of educating high - need students and for regional differences in costs.

* Fordham Industries makes no claims as to political feasibility, impact on educational freedom, immediate assistance to children in failing schools, parental rights, religious educational options, pedagogical diversity, educational innovation, public value conflicts, size of the tax burden, fairness to private school families, student achievement, or civic values.

Although it makes some important changes to NCLB, such as eliminating AYP mandates, the proposed ESSA would not accomplish important policy priorities of allowing states to make funding for Title I portable, allowing states to completely opt out through the A-PLUS provision, or cutting programs and spending that have accumulated over the decades in a manner that has failed students and burdened school leaders with red tape.

However, demonstrating compliance with these federal fiscal requirements — for example, comparability, in which districts must show that they provide «comparable services» in high and low poverty schools through state and local dollars — as well as the specific rules that govern each federal program, can introduce unnecessary burdens that distract from the overall goal of providing additional support to low - income schools and disadvantaged students.

Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association, said that multiple strategies are needed to close the diversity gap, beginning with reducing the student loan burden for prospective teachers, providing mentorship when they begin teaching, and tackling other challenges such as the high costs of housing.

Next, the voucher amount may or may not equal the actual per pupil dollars spent on the child — creating a financial burden for the receiving district as well as for the district that loses the student.

As a Physical Education teacher by choice I also have certification in Biology and General science two high needs areas I have reservations about individual contract negotiations and Tiered salary from the outside it would benefit core subject teachers Math, Science, Special ed with increased salary opportunities but mostly as any Corporate structure would do is pare back on other subject area salaries the non core subjects this could create a situation inwhich some teachers would carry more burden than others and whether we like it or not the most memorable classes for many students are art, gym, music and home economics because of their practical applications in lifAs a Physical Education teacher by choice I also have certification in Biology and General science two high needs areas I have reservations about individual contract negotiations and Tiered salary from the outside it would benefit core subject teachers Math, Science, Special ed with increased salary opportunities but mostly as any Corporate structure would do is pare back on other subject area salaries the non core subjects this could create a situation inwhich some teachers would carry more burden than others and whether we like it or not the most memorable classes for many students are art, gym, music and home economics because of their practical applications in lifas any Corporate structure would do is pare back on other subject area salaries the non core subjects this could create a situation inwhich some teachers would carry more burden than others and whether we like it or not the most memorable classes for many students are art, gym, music and home economics because of their practical applications in life.

Citing two earlier cases that forced changes in state laws regarding students» rights to quality education through money spent and time of instruction provided, as well as evidence in Vergara, he said the plaintiffs «have proven, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the Challenged Statutes impose a real and appreciable impact on students» fundamental to quality of education and that they impose a disproportionate burden on poor and minority students.»

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.