Sentences with phrase «troubling issue of teacher»

Writing for Education Week, Sarah D. Sparks uncovers the troubling issue of teacher absence: More than 6.5 million students in 2013 - 14 attended a school where at least half of teachers missed 10 days of school or more, according to the most recent estimate from the U.S. Department of Education.

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Even more troubling is that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives and ultimately, issues with confidence, self ‑ consciousness, the pressure of academic school work and lack of encouragement from teachers and parents, all hold teenage girls back from being physically active.

«I think that on issues of education, I've gotten in trouble with the teachers union on this — that we should be experimenting with charter schools.

Wall Street Journal education reporter Leslie Brody has a new piece out that looks at the troubling issue of chronic teacher absences in Newark Public Schools.

Sadly though, I think we are having trouble attracting anyone into teaching right now with the issues facing public education right now This video of a teacher interviewed on CNN even tells smart students not to go into teaching:

Black teachers being squeezed out of schools is certainly problematic in its own right, but the real trouble here is that this isn't just an issue of adult discrimination.

Having started with the Boys» Reading Commission report from the National Literary Trust for 2012, Emmett cites the commission's determination that boys may have trouble finding material that interests them and, on Page 22, a note reading: «Some teachers and librarians asserted that it is a supply issue and linked it to the female bias of the publishing industry.»

One of the most troubling aspects of the leaked Heartland Institute documents was the revelation that they were planning to create a school curriculum for K - 12 students that «that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain — two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science» indicates that there is scientific controversy on the core issues of anthropogenic climate change (*).