Sentence examples for ineffective schools from inspiring English sources

Will ineffective schools get rewards and continue poor teaching?

Both candidates claim records for addressing the district's perennial complaints: rundown housing, ineffective schools, wide unemployment and what many residents see as overly harsh police tactics.

Ms. Rhee, who has stridently challenged Washington's educational status quo, has closed ineffective schools and has stood up to the unions that have made it nearly impossible to fire a teacher, no matter how incompetent, once tenure has been granted.

KUWAIT — Two and a half years ago, a group of Arab leaders decided it was time to try to set aside their political differences and deal with what was ailing their countries: widespread illiteracy, ineffective schools, unemployment, inadequate water and food resources.

In other words, they assume that it is no more difficult to teach effectively in ineffective schools than it is to do so in effective schools.

His demand that 50% of teachers be replaced in those schools, along with his incentives for using a statistical model for firing teachers, means that effective educators have lost their careers simply because they taught in ineffective schools.

Every ineffective school is a problem, and within every successful school we can seek solutions that can be replicated.

Many districts, however, do not go as far as New York, taking a piecemeal approach to reinvention by replacing ineffective school leaders or teachers.

There are some lessons here for our policy makers to consider before they leap on the bandwagon of grandiose, and ultimately ineffective, school reform initiatives.

Parochial schools have smaller classes, the ability to expel students who pose a threat to other students and teachers, and the authority to discipline and dismiss ineffective school personnel.

"Transplanting an ineffective school from an old building to a new one is not going to change the quality of education," said Derrell Bradford, deputy director of Excellent Education for Everyone, a statewide advocacy group for parents.