Like Miguel, most of the students at this school were labeled Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE), and many were undocumented.
Consider, for instance, the graphic the New York Times ran that labeled students' decisions to apply to one selective college and one local, nonselective college as "idiosyncratic". This reminded me of the young man I met in graduate school who was so shocked that I had never been to Europe that he spent twenty minutes exhorting me to go.
In college sports, the workers are labeled "student-athletes," and those student-athletes are completely under the control of NCAA rules.
A standardized test produces a summary statistic labeled "student achievement," which is very different from a narrative account of students' achievements.
According to our hypothesis and to the content of the items two factors were proposed: Factor 1 including items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and factor 2 including items 6, 7, 8 and 9. Based on their content these factors were labeled "student-patient" and "self and colleagues", respectively.
According to the content of the items two factors were proposed: Factor 1 including items 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and factor 2 including items 6, 7, 8 and 9. Based on their content these factors were labeled "student-patient" and "self and colleagues", respectively.
But we believe the answer is not to label students "consumers".
Although sorting and labeling students with test scores occurs throughout elementary and middle grades, high school exit testing is one of the most blatant examples of how high-stakes testing hurts the most vulnerable students.
It's easier to label students as lazy, not committed enough, or unreliable than to try and make the effort to find out why they're missing classes or performing badly".
But even if the state finds the procedures acceptable, state and Indian education officials said the high numbers may point to more troubling factors: general weaknesses in education among American Indians, educators' lack of understanding of Indian culture, a lack of American Indian teachers or a tendency to label students in need of special education based on race alone.
In examining the history of labeling students, I am examining my own.
