Sentence examples for pressure schools from inspiring English sources

What complicates matters, in some cases, is the additional pressure schools feel to preserve instructional time, especially in the current high-stakes testing environment, which wasn't as established four years ago during the last severe snowfalls.

If you freeze the pay for so long and continue to pressure schools with threats of academy status if they are not deemed by Ofsted to be performing, while cutting their funding, then who is going to want to do the job?

Now, in the face of mounting political pressure, schools are looking beyond racial diversity to economic diversity.

Too often, in my experience, systems demand shortcuts, ignore real problems, and simply pressure schools to make suspension metrics look better.

We need to pressure schools, we need to change administrations, we need to pass laws and we need to let kids know their lives will be better in the future when they are adults.

The movement to pressure schools to restrict the sale of junk began picking up momentum again in March 2006 after Danica Kirka (AP) reported on a study published in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity.

It was about a normal kid fighting his way through puberty, girls, peer pressure, school, etc., who has a bomb dropped on him at the end of Act I.

Social-justice and environmental groups see the Unocal case as an example of globalization gone bad, inspiring protests on college campuses and campaigns to pressure school administrators to sell Unocal stock.

Peer pressure, school, homework, friends, fitting in and finding your place.

Levine has spent 30 years with these unhappy children, as a therapist and a mother of three sons who attended high-pressure schools.

"The high school students I see with problems are in very high-pressure schools," he said, "and are often also involved in playing an instrument in a high-pressure, high-stress environment".