Not exact matches
Without effective support for these
areas of development, children are at risk
of underachievement in many other
areas of learning.
Our failure in this
area has shown itself in, among other things, the academic
underachievement of disadvantaged children.
Increasing attention is being paid to the geography
of school
underachievement - such as in coastal
areas and regional differences.
Although successive government reforms in the UK have driven up standards overall in the last 10 years, the gap between the attainment
of children from poor and affluent homes has remained roughly the same, in some
areas it has widened, and there is a long tail
of underachievement.