But blaming teachers for the failure of schools is like blaming doctors for the diseases they are seeking to treat.
The title is a bit misleading since the bullies themselves rarely appear on screen, but this allows Mr. Hirsch to focus on the suffering of the victims and, more importantly, on the failure of schools to address the problem adequately.
The title is a bit misleading since the bullies themselves rarely appear on screen, but this allows Mr. Hirsch to focus on the suffering of the victims and, more important, on the failure of schools to address the problem adequately.
Join the Discussion THE Obama administration is planning some big changes to how we measure the success or failure of schools and how we apportion federal money based on those assessments.
The massacre, carried out by two Columbine students, generated intense debate about access to guns, the effect of violence in movies and video games, and the failure of schools and families to spot signs of murderous rage in the teenage gunmen.
In an interview Mr. Gioia said that the statistics could not explain why reading had declined, but he pointed to several commonly accepted culprits, including the proliferation of digital diversions on the Internet and other gadgets, and the failure of schools and colleges to develop a culture of daily reading habits.
We might ask not just about the failure of English Learners in schools, but the failure of schools to recognize and build on these students' strengths.
The second concerns the failure of schools to build the non-cognitive tools that contribute to success: determination, perseverance, and self-regulation.
"The failure of schools to address sexual harassment and sexual assault in K-12 mirrors the failure to address it in society as a whole," said Peterson-Fisher at Equal Rights Advocates.
