Sentences with phrase «about underachieving»

Liz Maverick's Arcania is a YA fantasy series «about an underachieving teen thrust into an MMO - like world of magical combat.»

Their record in Manchester is shabby, as have been some of their recent displays against the 19 - time champions of England, but the Gunners will care less about their underachieving past — this has been a week where they've had too defy the critics, sceptics and plenty of damning statistics in order to keep the haters off their back, and they're prepared to go through the motions all over again on Sunday, when they'll be targeting their first league win over United in Manchester since 2006.

Nobody raised a stink, wondering about the underachieving Portuguese who failed to qualify for most tournaments and struggled to win when they did qualify, because a small country of 10,000,000 people isn't supposed to do much.

Not exact matches

Homer Simpson, the show's awesomely underachieving Everyman, moans about going to church («What if we pick the wrong religion?»)

He admitted it was painful knowing his team has «underachieved quite a bit,» but he said it was time to man up and not worry about what could go wrong.

We are talking about a regular international, loads of UCL experience and a PL winner who has been schooled for almost his whole life by SAF — he is not your average underachieving 23 year striker.

South Carolina overachieved compared to the spread in Thursday's Birmingham Bowl loss to USF, and Arkansas only underachieved by about four points.

Alexander Payne will be returning to the road (where he's had plenty of prior success in About Schmidt and Sideways) with this dramedy about an alcoholic father and his underachieving son traveling from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska to cash in what the father believes is a million - dollar winning ticket from Publisher's Clearing HAbout Schmidt and Sideways) with this dramedy about an alcoholic father and his underachieving son traveling from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska to cash in what the father believes is a million - dollar winning ticket from Publisher's Clearing Habout an alcoholic father and his underachieving son traveling from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska to cash in what the father believes is a million - dollar winning ticket from Publisher's Clearing House.

The movie, co-written and directed by Bottle Rocket's Wes Anderson, is meant to be an offbeat comedy / drama about an unusual high school student who underachieves in classes because he spends all of his time on extracurricular activities.

What follows is a road trip he takes with his intelligent but underachieving son (Will Forte) and an eventual extended family meet - up in his Nebraska childhood town, where Forte's character learns much about his dad that the old man never told him himself.

(PG for violence, mild epithets and mature themes) Kevin Costner stars in this true tale, set in 1987, about a high school track coach who transforms his underachieving cross-country team into championship contenders after recruiting some fleet - footed Latino students.

Chenoweth talked with Education World about her research and what she thinks makes the difference between schools that remain underachieving and those that surpass expectations.

What are your stories about supporting students you've taught who the system might deem underachieving or «imperfect?»

A very interesting pp that gets staff thinking about the boys / girls learning debate - great for using prior to introducing underachieving boys tactics

«I think my favorite thing about the senior project is that it creates a sort of level playing field on which even a customarily underachieving student can excel,» added Camp.

PE teacher Rick Pedley - Smith explains the idea for the Rite of Passage (ROP) program came about after he and colleague Wade Fairclough noticed a group of boys who were underachieving.

The report also found in about a third of primary schools inspected this year, more able children underachieved because their work was not challenging enough.

Given 8,600 underachieving schools nationwide, however, the $ 230 million set - aside can support an average grant amount of only about $ 25,000, assuming each qualifying school receives a grant.

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.

While the response to underachieving local authority schools has been to turn them into academies, there have been questions about the action taken when academies are underperforming.

South LA Schools Team Up To Fight Reconstitution The two South LA schools [Dorsey, Crenshaw] joined forces and organized a public meeting tonight to inform Crenshaw parents and students about the district's effort to reform underachieving schools.

The 157 - page report also found in about a third of primary schools inspected this year, more able children underachieved because their work was not challenging enough.

It's all nonsense, of course, but when you've got the 570S, 911 Turbo S and R8 V10 Plus strutting about in the sunnier corner of the showroom, each of these three cars will only ever be marked down as the slightly underachieving younger sibling.

A decade ago, Sax, a family physician with a doctorate in psychology, began to notice a distressing trend: Parents were concerned about their unmotivated, underachieving sons.