France's Delegate Minister for Educational Achievement, Ms George Pau-Langevin underlined her country's commitment to quality education for all, and in particular to fight against school failure, which hits children from disadvantaged backgrounds hardest, also noting support for UNESCO's efforts globally.
Students receive constant pressure since elementary school and a failure at the university entrance exam means a failure to have a bright future.
Opened earlier this summer, and modelled on Japan's little local police stations, Columbia's koban is an attempt to prevent crime by tackling some of the things that cause it: broken families, children who stop going to school, the failure of communities to help people at the end of their tether.
We see the same philosophy among trendy educators: failure at school has been eliminated in favor of self-esteem by teacher-decree.
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These include the acute shortage of qualified teachers, financial resources and appropriate educational resources (such as school buildings and textbooks) as well as the failure of most parents to send their children to school due to poverty.
The Daily Sun claims to help its readers in their aspirations: from raising money for school uniforms to highlighting the failure of local amenities.
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"No amount of money can compensate for the school district's deliberate failure to provide an appropriate education at a crucial point in our son's life, " she says.
This hot-under-the-collar documentary devoted to the failure of the American school system is both touching and misleading.
My own dream had always been to learn a musical instrument, but every attempt, from grade school onward, had ended in failure.
The season starts on February 20th in Hamburg, where last year the first state-level coalition between the CDU and the Green party ended prematurely after the failure of an ambitious school reform and the mayor's subsequent resignation.
However, opponents of the closure said the council's failure to invest in the school has contributed to its demise.
But they have not surpassed whites either in high school graduation or college attendance--only in a statistic that combines both a measure of educational success (going to college) with one of failure (dropping out of high school, which reduces the denominator and thereby increases the overall number).
The South African government's failure to provide textbooks to all state school pupils violates their constitutional right to an education, the high court has ruled.
Other issues she will have to deal with include the implementation of the teachers' workload agreement for England and Wales, the growth of specialist schools and city academies, plans for optional extended school hours - and the government's repeated failure to meet its targets for England's test and exam performance.
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They will never break the state's monopoly in school provision - and so they will never tackle educational failure.
The day of mounting troubles for the school began with Athletic Director Tim Pernetti resigning over his failure to immediately fire coach Mike Rice, who was caught on video hitting, kicking and taunting players with anti-gay slurs at practice.
The drug giant convened the ten-member panel, headed by Eugene Braunwald of Harvard Medical School in Boston, to examine the safety of heart-failure treatment Natrecor.
At a previous hearing, Lee, of School Road, admitted the theft of the chemicals, shoplifting and failure to surrender to bail.
The school said 10 protesters arrested were given misdemeanor citations for unlawful assembly and failure to disperse.
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Thus does every enforcement failure become an excuse for more enforcement, especially among law-school professors and journalists who specialize in hindsight.
After vacillating for two weeks, terrified by thoughts of failure, I withdrew my application and stuck with "just" law school.
It says the assembly government has made clear that failure to do so may result in future provision of capital funding for school improvements being withheld.
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In education, Sylvia Morris who turned the Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy in Southwark, south London, from failure to outstanding success in just five years, becomes a dame.
Ajay Bhalla, professor of global innovation management at Cass Business School, said that at the root of Tesco's US problems was a failure to understand that the US retail landscape is different from the UK's.
According to this school of thought, it is not the message that is at fault, but the failure to communicate it effectively.
' Because as a result of the local authority's failure to deal with educational underperformance, children continue to go to a poor school.
Carlos Oya of the School of African and Oriental Studies in London says this chronic insecurity is a result of policy failure, not nature.
The report reveals that most of those children who have dropped out of school early in the region have experienced several years of schooling in which they have accumulated various forms of educational failure.
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