Sentences with phrase «students at the most risk»

Research also shows that the academic gains students achieve with high arts participation are greatest for struggling, low - income students at the most risk of academic failure.

Not exact matches

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

«These findings show how the Department of Education is putting our most vulnerable kids at risk,» Stringer said, charging that homeless kids aren't getting the same attention as other students.

Opportunity programs, which are designed for educationally and economically disadvantaged students, have a steady track record of success in increasing graduation rates among the most at - risk students.

More than 600 teenage girls in the Buffalo will likely give birth this year, and not many of them will finish high school.Five years from now, their children will enter the Buffalo schools as some of the district's most at - risk students.

As the city school district struggles to keep students in the classroom, the mayor has decided to add 50 - more positions to target the city's most at - risk youth.

Students more likely to participate in free - and reduced - price lunch programs are among the same populations most likely to suffer from obesity and related health risks, said Janet Peckham, an economist in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lead author of the study.

«We're hopeful that these findings can aid policymakers in developing interventions to target the most at - risk populations — particularly students with strong alcohol identities,» Romo says.

«Additionally, two - year colleges haven't traditionally offered the same resources as many four - year institutions because they are commuter campuses and most do not have residential facilities, which is understandable, but those students are also among the population at risk for sexual assault.»

The principal identified a group of her most hard - to - reach and at - risk students for a daily intensive small group session.

Most of the contributors to the volume have found evidence that policies that focus on high - stakes testing corrupt educational reform and undermine achievement, especially for at - risk students.

Notably, among students most at risk, 79 percent of academy students stayed in school through spring of senior year, compared to 68 percent of the control group.

Schools that are doing heroic work bringing students with extremely low scores up to a point that may be just below proficiency get no credit for that, and may, in fact, face serious sanctions despite the progress they are making with kids who are the most at risk.

Most programs for «at - risk» kids target these students and there have been multiple books and films that have focused on them, including the school in the film The Bad Kids, which I described in my last community post.

The most fascinating at - risk students to me are those I call the «creative dissidents.»

The third group is the trickiest one because it is composed of kids who show few outward signs of being at - risk and who most educators often identify as exemplary students.

The report also highlighted students who reported spending the most time online outside school were at greater risk of feeling lonely at school, arriving late, or skipping lessons.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

Finally, most of the funding for dropout prevention is under Title I, which funds programs for low - income students — as if there aren't any middle - or high - income students at risk!

While the most severe cases are managed clinically, there is growing evidence that many of the ongoing difficulties experienced by at - risk students begin early in life, and have societal or behavioral origins.

The research found students from Humber, Liverpool and, Tees Valley are most at risk of being disengaged with education.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

And K12, Inc., the nation's largest provider of full - time virtual elementary and secondary education, recognizes that disabled and «academically at - risk» students represent two of their most — if not their most — rapidly growing constituencies.

When I ask questions, I call on all students but I especially call on my most at - risk students who have difficulty focusing or grasping the concept.

Earlier this year, Larry Cuban and I had a brief back - and - forth about the prospects for online learning — particularly with regards to helping / harming students most at - risk.

However, we must be careful not to penalize those of us working with the highest - needs student populations, and we recommend using a two - step value - added model in order to ensure that there are no incentives against teaching at - risk students, while identifying and rewarding those teachers that are most successful with such students.

An interest group, People for the American Way, lodged a similar complaint: «The study's key finding improperly compares two dramatically different groups and may well reflect private - school screening - out of the most at - risk students.»

This how - to article accompanies the feature «Diplomas for (Would - Be) Dropouts: Project Learning Serves the Most At - Risk Students.»

I most often hear about CTE as a strategy for engaging students who are at risk of dropping out — and research suggests it does reduce dropout rates when implemented well.

In 2007, Hidalgo Early College High School created the Success Initiative Academy for students who continually scored low on the yearly Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, providing separate teachers and very small classes for these students most at risk for dropping out.

These schools have adapted in some ways, yes, but they all unswervingly answer the call to educate society's most at - risk students.

Despite the image of superpredators and dangerous hallways, most students suspended from school and most juveniles in detention did not commit violent offenses or put the safety of others at risk.

The emphasis on early intervention to prevent failure in the nation's youngest and most at - risk students marks a major break from the unsuccessful remediation models of the past three decades, which focused on helping older students after they had already fallen behind.

Service learning also engages the most at - risk students in the Fowler schools.

«This has been one of the most effective programs for at - risk students.

They want to know how these differences impact their students» learning, and, in particular, which teaching strategies will help their at - risk readers most.

[13] Nonetheless, the tremendous scale and consistently negative effects of current offerings points to the need to improve these courses, particularly for students most at risk of course failure and college dropout.

New Orleans's most at - risk students are also benefitting from the new system: CREDO found students with special needs achieve nearly two months of extra learning per year.

Also included will be an exploration of the following: • Research - based methodologies and measures for identifying at - risk students • A step - by - step process to create and implement an Early Warning System • Existing models in use today, reviewing the most predictive indicators and cut points.

Most teachers care about children and their overall wellbeing — they can see that at times this is at risk — they want the social and emotional aspects of students to be addressed.

Most importantly don't forget how important the role of the teacher is, especially for the credit recovery or at risk student who needs that constant and consistent support.

By far, the most identifiably effective measure was the addition of «acceleration academies,» in which at - risk students were invited to spend a week during school vacation in an intensive math or reading seminar.

«This has been one of the most effective programs for at - risk students,» said Sites.

These services must be concentrated to serve the students not meeting, or most at - risk of not meeting, state standards, and they must meet «supplement, not supplant» provisions of the law.

The LEA works with the participating private school to generate a list of names, addresses, and grades of eligible private school students, and then determines from that list, in consultation with the private school, those students who are most at risk of failing.

In a targeted assistance school, however, Title I funds may be used to provide services only to those students who are not meeting, or most at risk of not meeting, a state's academic achievement standards.

The U.S. Department of Education will not reverse its decision that Oregon is at «high risk» of failing to use student test scores to help evaluate teachers, a step it promised to take to get out from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind.

By allowing Catholic schools to receive government funding, a religious - charter policy could honor the traditions of both Catholic education and the chartering movement, allow these schools to carry on their service to the most at - risk urban students, and adhere to state standards, assessments, and accountability frameworks.

In implementing RTI, therefore, a Title I targeted assistance school must identify which students are most at risk, determine what interventions will be used, and then use Title I funds to provide those interventions to the most at - risk students under the RTI framework being used.

The research from The Careers and Enterprise Company has found students from Humber, Liverpool and, Tees Valley are most at risk of detaching themselves from learning.