Sentence examples for punish schools from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

And there are hardly any data to suggest that punishing schools with low test scores and rewarding schools with high ones improves anything.

"Punishing" schools that have partly filled the gap with higher tuition may make education cheaper but will surely damage that education.

The solution of the N.C.A.A. President, Myles Brand, of punishing schools with poor graduation rates is ill-conceived under the current guidelines.

Ultimately, superintendents say, punishing schools where minority students do not do well ends up making diversity look like a bad goal.