Sentences with phrase «with underachieving schools»

For example, Arlene Ackerman, USP graduate and the former superintendent of San Francisco Public Schools, was faced with underachieving schools and a deficit.

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In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

This teen comedy from Savage Steve Holland stars Corey Parker as an underachieving high schooler who hatches a crazy plot with valedictorian Lara Flynn Boyle to gain acceptance into a prestigious university.

Newburgh, N.Y. — Howard Jones, a bright but underachieving 7th grader at South Junior High School, has had his first brush with the law.

Chenoweth talked with Education World about her research and what she thinks makes the difference between schools that remain underachieving and those that surpass expectations.

«And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the most resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

Professor Sonia Blandford, founder and CEO of education charity Achievement for All, which developed and delivers the programme, said: «The UK has one of the widest attainment gaps in education anywhere in the developed world with one - in - five children currently underachieving at school.

In a bid to reach more than 80 schools in West Berkshire, BDZ Holdings in Newbury has teamed up with the charity to help improve the outcomes for children who are underachieving in the county, which could result in over 3,000 disadvantaged children progress academically and socially.

For instance, parents with children in schools identified as underachieving for two or more consecutive years are guaranteed the right to obtain supplemental educational services such as private tutoring, paid for with their children's share of federal Title I funds.

In collaboration with the principal, transformed the climate and culture of chronically underachieving pre-K to 8 400 - student school.

It is a Program Improvement school (the formal designation for Title I — funded schools in California) with large numbers of underachieving African American, Latino, and Asian students.

The Minster Junior School fell from «outstanding» in 2010 to the bottom grade four years later because «too many pupils significantly underachieved», but it remains with Southwark Diocese.

The passage of SB620 in the Senate is, without a doubt, a significant first step in providing Michigan parents with the legal power to transform underachieving schools that are failing their children.

The students attending these schools typically are underachieving and usually are deficient in credits to graduate or to be with their same age students.

That act, adopted in 2010 as part of a state effort to qualify for federal Race to the Top grant funding, established a formula for the state superintendent of public instruction to use in creating a list of 1,000 underachieving schools on what's now called the «open enrollment list,» starting with the lowest - achieving schools on California's Academic Performance Index.

With support for the learning disability from teachers and parents, a child who is underachieving can start to do well at school again.