Sentences with phrase «not high achievers»

It's just that not every high achiever is gifted.

It's unlikely highly - selective «top» private schools will take on any low - fee or no - fee pupil who isn't a high achiever.

This article needs a comment from someone that isn't a high achiever to make sense of these numbers.

Not exact matches

If you think super high achievers are running around like maniacs all day and sleeping five hours a night, you couldn't be further from the truth, reports UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center which studies positive psychology and recently laid out the relevant science:

The high achievers weren't special — but their teachers and leaders believed that they were.

Being a high achiever and bettering yourself doesn't equate to sentencing yourself to poor health and burnout.

Whether this practice is embraced by the head of a company as a business strategy or it just emerges in exchanges between employees, hypercompetition doesn't make anyone look like a high - level achiever.

An academic high achiever, she studied civil engineering at Queen's but within a year knew it wouldn't be her career.

The Rotman One - Year Executive MBA program attracts high achievers from a range of industries, including traditional for - profit businesses, not - for - profit enterprises, research institutes and entrepreneurial ventures.

One word that makes us happy: Progress [21:21] We grow because that helps us give more — share it with someone you love, it magnifies it [22:04] More excited about feeding one billion people than any material thing, so much more meaning when it's not just about you [22:19] The challenge is our brain: it's looking for what's wrong, because that helps you survive [22:30] Peak state = high energy, feel extraordinary, producing results is easy [22:46] Low energy state = say things and do things that hurt your relationship [23:39] Peak State = Beautiful state, Low - energy state = suffering state [24:08] Over achievers don't suffer, right?

On the other hand, you can't say that the academy completely ignores high achievers who are right of center; Jacques Barzun, Robert Bork, Robert Conquest, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Richard Epstein, John Lewis Gaddis, Mary Ann Glendon, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Bernard Lewis, Richard Pipes, Diane Ravitch, and William J. Stuntz are members.

Max isn't normal and most high achievers aren't.

In the Houston study, when there was some minimal improvement in test scores, it was only among the highest - achieving students, not the low achievers.

I am a personal shopper for numerous professional women, as well as being a writer, and I am amazed how many of these successful and wealthy high - achievers don't have a clue when it comes to what to wear.

For not only would it raise aspirations of pupils in all schools, but it would ensure that more privately - educated high achievers went to a wider spread of universities, raising the bar across higher education generally.

«They're either the high achievers who don't need much help, or students who are already failing out of their classes,» says Allison Calhoun - Brown, a political scientist who oversees advising at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta.

Many high achievers fall into this category (I'm not implying either correlation or causation).

They were incredible, complex and mind - blowingly beautiful human beings, compassionate high achievers, and they were somehow able to convince me that we didn't have to fight each other to survive.

As I looked at getting back into the workforce, again in a career that is not high paying, and also into dating again, I noted there are more and more women who are high achievers financially.

Although these modes don't deviate far from the main experience, they are welcome additions that high score achievers will appreciate.

So, kids could be really high achievers in terms of math and reading but gain nothing from our program if they didn't have these sort of sit - still skills.

We do not have good data that would help answer the question of whether charter schools disproportionately draw high or low achievers.

And we know that many low - income students — especially strivers and high achievers — are not well served in classrooms with students that are three, four, or five grade levels apart at any given time, or that are overseen by administrators unwilling to enforce discipline standards.

Add to this, that if a school had a significant number of students over the average, this does not tell principals that their school is a high achiever.

And not just your high achievers!

We also strongly urge states not to use «growth to proficiency» measures, as these encourage schools to ignore the needs of their high - achievers (and are poor indicators of school quality).

Anyone who has spent time with students knows that this isn't unique to high achievers.

But academic achievement is not the only necessity of a skilled workforce for the twenty - first century education: whilst China may be producing high PISA achievers it also recognises a shortage of «creative problem - solvers».

It's not enough to do rigorous curriculum development only for the high achievers.

Second, school systems should consider identifying the high achievers at each school, not district - wide.

Washington plays a role here, too, since the focus of the No Child Left Behind Act on low achievers and troubled schools, coupled with state and federal funding streams for special education, means that schools serving high achievers don't receive money that other public schools often do.

«There hasn't been any Robin Hood effect, but the high achievers haven't been gaining, either.»

Teaching isn't easy, and working at Alliance means having high expectations for ourselves and for all 13,000 of our scholars, including the majority who come to us significantly behind grade level, those who have special needs, and the high achievers whom we must keep engaged and motivated.

It's further true that to judge a school simply on the basis of how many of its pupils clear a fixed «proficiency» bar, or because its «performance index» (in Ohio terms) gets above a certain level, not only fails to signal whether that school is adding value to its students but also neglects whatever is or isn't being learned by (or taught to) the high achievers who had already cleared that bar when they arrived in school.

The Mighty Middle Improving teaching through continuous improvement means concentrating on the majority of teachers, not just the «bad apples» and high achievers.

To prevent such notions he's assured teachers that the program isn't about visiting specifically parents of high - achievers or low - achievers — and it isn't about singling out black, white nor Latino students.

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A common assumption inside the school - reform movement, one often repeated in the wake of America's sobering performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment exam — the U.S. ranked 17th in reading and 23rd in science — is that our nation's public - school teachers tend not to be high achievers themselves.

MERAJI: Now we've arrived at reason number two for why low - income high achievers don't apply to selective universities.

High achievers may need an educational environment beyond what is offered in the average classroom, but that is not necessarily the same environment required by gifted kids to be successful.

Education minister Peter Weir said «performance has not shown any significant improvement» but he wanted to understand how these results for secondary schools could be explained when another set of results had shown Northern Ireland's primary pupils among the highest achievers for maths.

The identified gifted are not always evenly distributed likely due to socioeconomic reasons, and this is confounded by high - achievers being wrongly identified as gifted, also.

gifted is not equal to high achiever).

Gifted children are usually, but not always, high achievers.

The thinking goes that because high - achievers are unlikely to fall below proficiency, and low - achievers are unlikely to ever reach proficiency no matter how hard a teacher works with them, schools don't get «credit» for devoting resources to outlier students.

Many parents of low - income high achievers didn't go to college, and, when they think of selective schools, they think of the pricey, East Coast elites: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc..

Hoxby and Avery suggest that low - income high achievers do not even apply to elite universities because they don't have people at home or at school to encourage them to do so.

Facilitating a series of one - to - one or small group discussions, how members of a particular sub-group of students (the disengaged, high - achievers, young women, young men, or students not from the majority culture in the surrounding community, for example) are feeling about their learning experiences; or shaping a new initiative in the classroom or school.

This pattern of stronger progress for low achievers rather than for high achievers is associated with the introduction of accountability systems in general — and not with NCLB in particular.

Most states, said Vargas, have given explicit support to dual enrollment for many years, and currently all but two states have relevant policies on the books, but there remains a lot of work to be done to improve state policy in this area, especially to extend dual credit opportunities to a broad range of students and not just to the highest achievers.