Sentences with phrase «to educate poor children»

For instance, much of the charter movement has been about educating poor children based on pity.

Also compounding the problem, educating poor children costs significantly more for a myriad of well - known reasons.

This «strategy» takes the burden of educating poor children of color off of the state, which many believe is a waste of tax money considering the continuous underperformance of city schools.

Why is it that our approaches to educating poor children seem to set up conditions that are exactly the opposite of the ones Learn Better identifies as optimal?

It is an inspection agency which punishes schools which educate poor children, awarding inspection judgements based on a school's intake rather than the standards of its teaching and the progress children make in their learning.

While the states primary school funding grant provides 30 percent more money for children from low - income families, experts who testified for the plaintiffs during the trial testified that it costs two to three times as much to educate poor children who often show up for school with major deficiencies.

The US has a real problem educating poor children.

The meetings were productive, and Bob and Debbie actually had agreed on some broad parameters for a voucher program to allow low - income parents to access private schools that had a proven record of educating poor children.

I visited a couple of successful Cleveland public schools during my visit — successful in educating poor children — and while principals in each of those schools said they could use more money, neither said that money — or their students» lack of it — was their major challenge.

At a time of increasing pressure on government programs to demonstrate effectiveness, the results of the $ 8.8 million study mandated by Congress could have a big impact on the continued health of the flagship federal program designed to help educate poor children.

Running a university, educating poor children and so on.

Your vow to «educate poor children»» might you now say «to heal the education of poor children»?

«The facts are plain: America spends less to educate poor children than wealthy children,» he said.

«There's a growing consensus that these five tenets, and maybe a few more, are enormously important in educating poor children,» Fryer told me.

He does hit all the high notes — the ravages of poverty, the lessons of James Coleman, the further lessons of Richard Rothstein, even bringing in Joel Klein as the heartless reformer who thinks a student's home life is «irrelevant» — but ends up being completely off - key, forgetting that we now have dozens, if not hundreds, of schools that are succeeding in educating poor children.

The school - choice debate is most importantly about how to design an effective public system to educate poor children, as Deborah Meier, the progressive educator, argues in «The Power of Their Ideas.»

CABE's own school board training program indeeds show compelling data about poverty being a convenient excuse for the professionals in schools not having the range and depth within their professinal repertoire to educate poor children.

Two K - 12 initiatives that are launching this week aim to capitalize on the mounting support for taking a more holistic approach to educating poor children, a shift away from the view that has heavily emphasized that schools alone can counteract the effects of poverty.

But unlike the current system, student - based budgeting supports socioeconomic integration, as schools receive more local money to educate poor children, they say.

Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is in the middle of finalizing regulations to implement the law, including a hotly contested rule that would govern how districts allocate billions of federal dollars meant to educate poor children.