And turning around persistently low-performing schools that have been failing students for decades or even generations.
Schools produce too many failing students and some resemble glorified child-care providers.
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It creates a cultural climate where failing students refer to the same built-in excuse: if I attend a failing school, then what chance do I have?
We at private institutions are pricing students and their families out of the institutions we lead, and we are failing students who don't come from wealthy backgrounds.
In other words, after universities like Harvard and Stanford had gone to the trouble setting up reciprocal or unilateral exchange programs and had reserved thereunder a number of positions for students from Japan, the Japanese university was failing to produce the students.
Automatically giving students failing marks for missing classes has only exacerbated the problems of low achievers.
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They'd like a new and improved version of NCOB to focus on schools that are truly failing all their students.
Bexhill High School was rated inadequate in an Ofsted report, which said it was failing to give students an acceptable standard of education.
"As a result, notifications of changes to circumstances of students, details of students failing to enrol or attend classes, or curtailment of sponsorship were not being acted upon, " he said.
Critics carp that the program will siphon off students from failing schools, leaving those institutions worse off than before.
However, both measures do allow students in failing schools to switch to another public school after three years, or obtain federal dollars to use for private tutoring programs.
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Is not a teacher who can bring students from housing projects up to grade level in her subject more desirable than one in whose classes the same students are failing?
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The lead plaintiff in this class action, Van-Ness Crawford, has three sons who are forced to attend a high school at which more than 80% of the students are failing mathematics.
Teachers get weekly reports that let them pinpoint which students are failing too many quizzes -- signaling a need for one-on-one tutoring -- or which are ready for some harder stuff.
The New York City lawyer who helped win a landmark court ruling in 2006 that ordered billions of dollars more spent on schools has been quietly building a new case to show that even after more than a decade of litigation, the state still may be failing its most impoverished students.
The Massachusetts Board of Education, for example, fearing most students would flunk, has voted to set low passing scores--just above failing--for a new test students must take to graduate from high school.
What's worse, there's disturbing evidence that many colleges are failing to effectively educate their students.
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Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems voiced concerns that the legislation was proposing financial penalties on universities failing to reach targets for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
If the bill passes the House as well, it would end an old practice of allowing students to advance despite failing the test.
The UK Border Agency had found students at the university without any right to remain in the UK, some without adequate English language skills and claimed that the university was failing to monitor the attendance of overseas students.
Anecdotal reports have suggested that the big American schools are failing to attract the number of lucrative foreign students they once did (see article).
Last April, the federal Department of Education announced it was investigating a complaint alleging the university discriminated against female students, faculty and staff by failing to address a sexually hostile environmental caused by its failure to appropriately respond to reports of sexual assault.
It set up a regimen of state reading and math tests for students in third through eighth grades, intended to identify failing schools.
If the students continue to truant, their parents can be arrested for failing to ensure their children attend school.
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We launched a national competition to improve our schools by investing only in reform that closes the achievement gap, and inspires students to excel in math and science, and turns around failing schools that steal the future from too many young Americans.
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And this funding is tied to reforms that raise student achievement, inspire students to excel in math and science, and turn around failing schools which consign too many young people to a lesser future -- because in the 21st century there is no better anti-poverty program than a world-class education.
Failing schools will now have the incentive to get their acts together and start giving their students a genuine education.
Likewise, the standards-based reform movement of the 1990s has highlighted and given new urgency to the problems of students who are not being well served by the current education system and are thus at risk of failing to meet new, higher standards in the future.
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