Sentences with phrase «times school failure»

«I don't think accountability should stop at individual schools when many times school failure is the result of maybe some district failure,» says Bennett.

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My old man used a razor strop on me from time to time and having no success once paddled himself, with me watching, to demonstrate his failure to rectify my attitude (I had set a vacant lot on fire, smoking cigarettes I'd salvaged from the steps of the Catholic church across the street) In school, you had to bend over and grab your ankles in order to take your licks.

I wish I had hopes for the Mariners, but I'm 35 and was in high school the last time they made the playoffs, so I'm conditioned for failure in that regard.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

New York Times review: ««The ugly and wonderful truth about middle school,» [Lahey] says, is that «failure is not an if proposition, it's a matter of when.»

Bettina Elias Siegel of The Lunch Tray deconstructs the New York Times» failure on school lunches and nutrition: New York Times Says «Students Hate School Lunches» SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 by BETTINA ELIAS SIEGEL To which I can only say... GAH!!!!!! People, there is so much to take issue with in yesterday's Sunschool lunches and nutrition: New York Times Says «Students Hate School Lunches» SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 by BETTINA ELIAS SIEGEL To which I can only say... GAH!!!!!! People, there is so much to take issue with in yesterday's SunSchool Lunches» SEPTEMBER 28, 2015 by BETTINA ELIAS SIEGEL To which I can only say... GAH!!!!!! People, there is so much to take issue with in yesterday's Sunday...

Bettina Elias Siegel of The Lunch Tray deconstructs the New York Times» failure on school lunches and nutrition:

The governor said he believed this year's session was successful, despite the inability to agree on the schools and the failure to pass an ethics overhaul as well as other long - sought measures such as a longer time period within which victims of child sex abuse could sue their abusers.

This point was accepted by the court, although it suggested that «the schools affected should be given time to put their houses in order» given the state's historic failure to deal with such discrimination.

«As the global financial crisis created by the failure of unregulated banks shows, it would be wholly irresponsible to give more freedoms to schools whilst at the same time diluting or removing entirely existing arrangements for school inspection and accountability.

«If we don't build on the lessons from previous policy successes and failures to understand what works and why, we risk wasting time and money in a way that we simply can't afford,» said Anadon, who authored the new paper with colleagues from the Harvard Kennedy School as well as the University of Minnesota's Prof Gabriel Chan.

Apart from the loss of time, money and resources, these failures are also «tragic because we have so little clinical trial information on children to begin with,» says Florence Bourgeois, an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School, who co-authored the study.

«People have a fear of being a failure, of disappointing their adviser, [of] wasting your time and money having gone to graduate school, [and] fear of not knowing what you're going to do,» she says.

New Recommendations from the National Sleep Foundation - The Atlantic January 2015 - Poor Sleep in Adolescence Predicts Future Problems, Study Says - Los Angeles Times January 2015 - How Sleep Keeps You Healthy, Helps You Heal - Discovery News September 2014 - Lack of Sleep Increases Risk of Failure in School Among Teens - Science World Report, from Sleep Medicine August 2014 - Sleep Woes in Old Age May Be Linked to Brain Cell Loss - Health magazine August 2014 — University of Chicago Study: Getting More Sleep Could Cut Junk Food Cravings in Half — CBS News August 2014 — University of Montreal Study Shows Learning Is Best Enhanced During Sleep - Jewish Business News February 2014 - Link Found between Sleep Duration and Depression - Psych Central February 2014 - Less Sleep, More Time Online, Raises Risk for Teen Depression — National Public Radio

When a nurse administers Taylor's rape kit; when his mother, Anne (Lili Taylor), is disappointed time and again by the failure of the police and the media to take her son's claims seriously; or when the prep school's headmaster (Felicity Huffman) and basketball coach (Timothy Hutton) attempt to avoid any potential legal ramifications for the institution itself, «American Crime» sustains its momentum by being as unflinching in style as it is in substance.

It was a time when the studios, reeling from their failure to attract the new generation of filmgoers, briefly threw their gates open to outsiders — mainly young directors formed by film schools and highly conscious of the European art film tradition.

As the New York Times reported when Anderson took over, in June of 2011, «Cami Anderson faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

Their principal at the time, Diane Bragdon, had brought the school back from the brink of failure and now was ready to aim its trajectory squarely toward greater success.

Parents and other community members — thanks to some local gadflies who began to get the message out — also began paying attention and, for the first time in memory, voted down a school budget in large part because of academic failures.

Kids who have experienced years of school failure have to believe that this time the adults will be different.

The failure by schools to meet the physical education mark is a factor of time, money and priorities, says Donna Anthony, OSSE's assistant superintendent of health and wellness.

Poor procurement decisions and a failure to comply with procurement legislation could result in legal challenges from suppliers, contracts being cancelled and financial penalties which can be costly, time - consuming and impact on your school's reputation.

The study's findings provide support for a model of early identification and intervention for all children at - risk for reading failure; the classroom teachers and school resource teachers provided intervention three to four times a week for 20 minutes.

A 2008 study of graduation patterns in Chicago Public Schools, for example, found that the number of days students were absent in eighth grade was eight times more predictive of freshman year course failure than eighth grade test scores.

Early reading success or failure is highly predictive of a child's academic trajectory: one out of six kids who are not reading proficiently by third grade will not graduate from high school on time.

According to the Times, Cami Anderson, all of 39 years old, «faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system [Newark] that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

However, by the time Sizer wrote his seminal 1985 report, A Study of High Schools, and A Nation at Risk warned of education failure and the need for deep reform, that earlier sense of utopia was slipping away.

Atul Gawande: Excellence Is Recognizing Details, Failures Harvard Magazine, October 25, 2012» «What I found over time, trying to follow and emulate people that were focused on achieving something more than competence, is that they weren't smarter than anybody else, they weren't geniuses,» Gawande told an audience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Forum on Wednesday.»

His lowly record of failure in running Jersey City's schools should have led New Jersey state officials and the school board to remove him a long time ago.

NCLB cleared Congress in 2002 with massive bipartisan support but has since become a political catastrophe: The law's strategy for prodding and shaming schools into improvement proved deeply flawed over time, and its unintended failures have eclipsed its bright spots.

He pointed out that high - performing charter schools have adopted more prescriptive curricular models and pedagogies over time, and that «looking for a thousand flowers to bloom has a long and storied history of failure in American schooling.»

From the time of desegregation forward, disillusionment with integration and the failure to improve education in many urban communities led to the development of «independent black schools.»

When it was time to enroll Jason in school, Hayes's wife was diagnosed with kidney failure and lupus.

A large majority of eventual dropouts are overage for grade by the time they enter ninth grade for the first time, and have increasingly high levels of absenteeism and course failure over their years in high school.

Such experiences are especially important for students at risk of school failure because these programs fill the afternoon «gap time» with constructive and engaging activities.

That's a huge embarrassment to a mayor and his union allies who spend their time excusing public school failure rather than redressing it.

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

If a child falls into several categories his or her failure to meet AYP will be accessed against the school for each of the criteria, counting that one child against the school's AYP score several times.

Teachers in every school know right now which students are in danger of failure at the end of the year, and they know that with immediate intervention and extra time, many of those failures could be avoided.

A recent report by his department blames «successive governments» for their failure to fund more than a «skeleton staff» at small schools, and says it is time to «reimagine» education in small schools and isolated villages.

Last year's high - profile flop of a $ 1.3 billion iPad program in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the country's second largest, showed that failures can be expensive and time - consuming.

If unions are central to school failure, why do charter schools, 88 percent of which are non-unionized, only out - perform regular public schools 17 percent of the time?

Now is the time for bold and innovative reforms that reward teachers and schools that show significant progress while holding failures accountable.

It is pretty ironic that Arne Duncan, the protégée of our own Paul Vallas, (Bridgeport's $ 229,000 part - time «reform» superintendent), is now charging that the private companies that are being hired by school districts are not being effective nor are they being held accountable for the failure of their programing.

Mike Grego — It hasn't been an easy time for the well - respected Pinellas County school superintendent of late, particularly after the report in the Tampa Bay Times about «Failure Factories» in South St. Pete schools.

With schools getting rid of weaker pupils to look good in league tables, it's time to accept market ideology is a failure in education

As schools and school districts can and have been successfully litigated for failure to conduct due diligence when selecting consultants, it is important to take the time to properly vet firms to see if they have the credentials and experience to not only hold up as experts in a court of law but more importantly to deliver high quality and effective services to help make schools safer and more productive learning environments.

And not only will school districts have to put aside instructional time and give the Common Core SBAC test this year, but they will have to do it next year, and the year after, and the year after that, and every single year until this nonsense stops and the state's elected officials finally have the courage to stand up and put an end to the Common Core test scam that is designed to intentionally judge the vast majority of Connecticut's public school children as failures.

Add in Malloy and Pryor's absurd teacher evaluation system, along with Malloy's failure to properly fund Connecticut's Education Cost Sharing school funding formula and you have a situation that could easily cost Malloy ten times the number of votes he won by in the 2010 election.