Sentences with phrase «history of underachievement»

Firstly, a little history to set the scene; September 2012 saw the start of the conversion process for Battle Primary School, a Reading school with a long history of underachievement.

Both America and Britain have outstanding universities — Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Oxford — but behind those high - performing institutions (and there are some amazingly good schools for children five to 18) there is a long history of underachievement that has correlated with poverty.

Making matters worse, due to some clever scheduling by my colleagues, I wound up with a majority of gifted students, who had histories of underachievement and behavior problems.