Sentences with phrase «students lack access»

These wait - listed students lack access to high - quality educational options.

By placing all district and charter public schools into these quality tiers, the Association is now poised to investigate where students lack access to quality schools.

If low - income students lack access to computers at home or to reliable Internet access, flipping may be a nonstarter in some schools.

You could very well have the next Bill Gates, the next Mark Zuckerberg, but you'll never know because students lack the access and the support.»

Because when students lack access to high - quality summer learning and enrichment opportunities, they risk falling prey to «summer learning loss» — a loss in academic skills and knowledge during summer vacation.

At the moment, far too many students lack access to a high - quality education; still others are unable to achieve their full potential.

«When the gap year occurs outside of an educational setting or another structured setting, now students lack the access to counseling and supports.

In a similar way, this Microsoft infographic seemed to suggest that simply having a home computer with Internet would fix billions of dollars of lost - earning potential due to nearly 10 million American students lacking access to digital tools.

Not exact matches

Swaminathan says that many students in China lacked access to cutting - edge management education after graduating from college.

«The lack of access to nutritious food here has big consequences, from higher rates of diet - related illness to students who are less prepared to learn,» the Pillsbury United Communities (PUC) reports.

More than 17,000 Bronx students are suffering from a lack of school library access, today's Daily News reports.

An April report by Stringer found students in low - income neighborhoods, particularly the South Bronx and central Brookyn, lacked access to arts education in school.

Students increasingly need computer skills to compete for jobs, but too often schools lack the access to technology or teachers lack the training to empower our students with this knStudents increasingly need computer skills to compete for jobs, but too often schools lack the access to technology or teachers lack the training to empower our students with this knstudents with this knowledge.

Many lack «access to private spaces to meet with students, and provide their own out - of class resources such as computers, phones, and printers to conduct their office work.»

«It's a quality - of - life issue — poor benefits, low salaries, and lack of access to other things that staff and even other students get,» Micoli explains.

Simply giving more financial aid fails to directly address the lack of access most low - income students have to elite schools.

The status quo of complex information, complicated processes, and limited access to professional assistance are nudges in their own right: a confusing financial aid application, an unanticipated application fee, the lack of opportunity to visit a college campus all have the potential to convey the message that «college isn't for you» to a hard - working, talented, but socioeconomically disadvantaged student.

A folktales project is behind schedule because of lack of electricity, lack of heat in the school — which kept students home for several weeks — and infrequent access to computers at their school.

Zoom out to promote understanding on the systems level: Explore whether there are larger systemic forces that underlie the challenges students have touched on (such as racism, sexism, or lack of access to resources).

In the focus groups we ran, people often discussed the downsides of desegregation — the biggest of which is lack of belongingness, especially for students of color who, in many desegregated schools, do not get welcomed in the same way, or get access to the same experience as white students.

What they evaluated was my lack of access to education, and yet I knew their conclusions would be used to define their story of me as a student.

However, the research also shows that the biggest barriers educators currently face to teach these skills are the lack of access to necessary tools and technologies and the time required to teach students how to use creative tools.

Still, we find clear, consistent barriers to charter school growth: a lack of access to affordable school buildings, increased competition among charter schools for students and resources, and a political backlash to the growing presence of charter schools.

Let me take you to a corner of the globe where the majority of students drop out of school before the sixth grade and youth still lack access to free secondary education.

Educating Students to Fight Hunger Hunger is not the condition caused just by a lack of food; hunger is an issue tied to food access, distribution, and utilization.

For example, the 2015 FCC Broadband Progress Report states that approximately 35 percent of schools lack access to fiber, meaning the high - quality broadband with appropriate speed students need to work.

American students face a double - whammy: Not only do they lack access to high - quality secondary CTE, but then they are subject to a «bachelor's degree or bust» mentality.

Poor conditions or lack of school facilities, low - quality teachers, teacher shortages, poor student - teacher interactions, geographic access to school, less challenging courses and student boredom

Flooding this set - up with tablets and digital software might help some students some of the time: ones who are held back mainly by lack of content access, and who are very self - motivated and undeterred by normal learning and life challenges.

By leveraging alternate delivery methods such as physical media, intranet, alternate formats like text, audio, and specialized tools, you can provide high - quality, consistent, on - demand learning experiences to staff members, students, and clients who lack access to reliable broadband.

When Horne picked students for a trial run of the online course in May 2008, HomeLink ensured that no one was excluded because he or she lacked Internet access.

There are students who sound fluent in English, who can carry on conversations, but lack the fluency in English academic discourse to access complicated content or to express their understandings.

With three out of four students in the U.S. lacking access to summer learning programs and a shortage of interested K - 12 students in STEM subjects, Boys & Girls Clubs serve as a partner to schools by providing a safe and supportive place for youth to learn without limits during out - of - school time.

My students in particular, do not often have a chance to use these kinds of online social tools due to lack of access, so it is imperative that they learn it at school.

As internet connectivity improves in rural America, many schools are expanding online options for students who lack access to hard - to - staff courses.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

This brief and related report synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies and finds that community schools can improve outcomes for all students, especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

This report, which synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies, finds community schools can improve outcomes for all students, and especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

This is particularly problematic for low - income, high - achieving students, who tend to lack access to «gifted and talented» programs and similar initiatives.

Seeing how Emily was able to be creative about allowing her students to access technology was encouraging for us, because she did not let lack of access discourage her.

We are working here to develop a solution to a very specific, yet highly consequential, problem that afflicts rural and poor communities across the U.S. — students who have the aptitude and work ethic to excel academically often lack access to the advanced coursework needed to fulfill their potential.

CAN is committed to serving the high schools with the highest need (e.g., high number of students enrolled in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program) and the fewest resources (e.g., lack of college access support such as a high counselor to student ratio).

Students from low - income households, who lack access to computers and the Internet in the home, need to acquire digital media practices in school.

While there, Alejandro became frustrated that his students — and millions more in low - income communities — lacked continuous access to learning at home and school.

, millions of students lack digital access at home and are finding themselves caught in the Homework Gap.

In one of the nation's largest school districts, Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, far too many students — especially particularly poor and minority students — lack access to a high - quality school.

From America's Wire: «Educators cite these causes for the disparity in performance: Lowered expectations for students of color Growing income inequality and lack of resources in low - income school districts Unequal access... Read More

This encourages schools to ignore their high - flyers, which is particularly problematic for low - income high - achieving students, who tend to lack access to «gifted and talented» programs and similar initiatives.

Washington, D.C., June 22, 2010 — In response to the lack of evaluative data on many college access programs, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education (The Pell Institute), in partnership with the Institute for Higher Education Policy's (IHEP) Pathways to College Network, has launched the «Evaluation Toolkit» to help increase the effectiveness of college access programs that serve disadvantaged student populations.