Sentences with phrase «lack of academic interest»

This impression may lurk behind the lack of academic interest in it.

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Even more worrisome, this lack of interest in academic effort appears to have started at home.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

Some academic work has suggested that states with capitals that are distant from major media and population centers are more likely to have problems, due to lack of oversight and public interest.

Results show that while some students drop out because of academic challenges, most others leave school due to circumstances in their lives and an inadequate response to those challenges from their schools: lack of motivation, interest, and classes that were not challenging enough.

41 % believed none of these universities offered the courses they were interested in — there was a lack of understanding of career pathways from «academic - sounding» degree courses.

While having less experienced teachers probably didn't help these kids» academics, their poor behavior and lack of interest in school made these teachers» jobs harder and often caused them to move on to other schools.

This lack of a strong role for measured characteristics motivates interest in unmeasured characteristics of teachers that have a causal effect on academic achievement.

While the report «recognizes subgroup academic gains achieved by the school,» it says the recommendation of denial is based on «a pattern of insufficient responses to inquiries,... lack of transparency, and the potential for significant conflicts of interest posed by its governance structure.»

This essay aims to review resources available to parents, who are interested in determining the academic performance of a prospective elementary magnet, and to expose the lack of easily obtainable information for prospective parents to use in informed decision - making, by examining two common ways parents obtain information about prospective schools: the first is directly from school representatives at school choice fairs or open house events, and the second is from a popular website, called GreatSchools.

I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me to act.

Evidence concerning homework also suggests possible negative effects such as students» loss of interest in academic material, fatigue, lack of opportunity for leisure and community activities, as well as pressure from parents.

Childhood socioeconomic deprivation, family housing tenure other than consistent home ownership, family disruption, lack of parental interest, behaviour problems, low academic test scores and health difficulties were each clearly associated with poor mental well - being in adulthood when estimated by analysing each childhood measure individually, adjusting for cohort and gender, and in the full model considering all childhood measures, although they were to some extent attenuated.