But unless there's attention and support and mitigation to those challenges, they become impediments to student learning.
The debate over school reform has become a false polarization between figures like Michelle Rhee, the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor, who emphasizes testing and teacher evaluation, and the education historian Diane Ravitch, who decries the long-run effort to privatize public education and emphasizes structural impediments to student achievement, like poverty.
"The concern, of course, is that we never get into a situation where we are creating an impediment to students going to college," Ms. Davis said.
This lack of cultural capital knowledge, skills, and education that a person has that give him or her a higher status in society (Bourdieu, 1986)—can be an impediment to students becoming involved in undergraduate research.
The idea that all organisms take in food in essentially the same way that we do—such as plants sucking up food through their roots from the soil represents another inappropriate instance of anthropocentric thinking, one that creates a serious impediment to students understanding the diverse ways in which different organisms obtain food (see Driver et al., 1994; AAAS, 2012).
The difficulty of thinking in terms of populations instead of individuals is a recurring impediment to student understanding of evolutionary principles and processes (Bishop and Anderson 1990; Shtulman 2006; Gregory 2009), and one of the strongest features of Avida-ED is its ability to provide a dynamic visual representation of population-level processes.
Of course there are some lousy teachers out there, but in the main, teachers are not the impediment to student achievement.
The graph shows the top reported health impediments to MIT students' academic performance.
