Sentence examples for punish school from inspiring English sources

Policy makers have been so anxious to punish school failure that they have worried too little about defining what failure is.

Should we impose a coercive testing regime that would reward and punish schools based on results?

The government has tried to punish schools for sticking to their principles.

There has to be some way to reward schools that actually do provide learning and punish schools that don't.

"Too often," he said, "what we've been doing is using these tests to punish students or to, in some cases, punish schools".

They favour using more sophisticated "assessments" in place of tests, want to value a broader range of skills, punish schools less and support them more.

Thomas J. Kane and Douglas O. Staiger ("Rigid Rules Will Damage Schools," Op-Ed, Aug. 13) are right about the flaws in President Bush's plan to punish schools whose test scores do not rise.

The hope is that parents and students armed with better information will be better consumers and will punish schools with a record of charging too much or delivering too little.

Critics contend that such grading systems, which have been adopted in at least 10 other states and some districts, including New York City, can be too simplistic or can punish schools unfairly.

The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, will this week announce plans to push pupils towards studying more academic GCSE qualifications by using performance tables to punish schools that fail to enrol pupils in the government's English baccalaureate suite of subjects.

A draft proposal being floated by Representative George Miller, chairman of the House education committee, would soften many of the law's accountability provisions while maintaining its overall strategic goal: to bring every student to proficiency by 2014 by requiring states to administer standardized tests and to punish schools where scores do not rise.