Sentences with phrase «of underachievement from»

Launching her research from questions like these, Bempechat approaches the persistent problem of underachievement from the opposite perspective of most researchers.

Not exact matches

Perhaps young lives redeemed from a life of crime, underachievement and illegal violence within society in some way bear testimony to the worth of boxing and MMA.

The film's commercial underachievement is a likely explanation for the fairly inconsequential DVD extras: additional interview segments with the cast done during the theatrical release promotional tour; video «blog» segments with Hannah (really, just extended interview outtakes from the film) from the film's website; six understandably deleted scenes; and a collection of trailers that individually spotlight one of the cast members.

For instance, the site provides articles that cover everything from identification of gifted students, using models such as enrichment clusters, teaching reading and math, and underachievement among the gifted.

To provide some concrete steps you can take to challenge students, Id like to list some strategies presented by Dr. Rimm in her article, Underachievement Syndrome: A Psychological Defensive Pattern as well as from the work of University of Connecticut researchers Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis.

Start with Gifted Education Professional Development Package... it's a full 6 - unit course in gifted education, from soup to nuts — Identification to Instruction, plus the condiments — Underachievement, Twice Exceptional, and Social - Emotional aspects of giftedness.

And it uses funds from the pupil premium - a pot of money aimed specifically at children from low - income homes - to support families of children that are at risk of underachievement.

Prof Alison Wolf, from King's College London, highlighted the link between concentrations of underachievement in school and where traditional industrial jobs had disappeared.

The last paragraph is key - «To date, the obsession with school structures has allowed the focus in education policy to move away from tackling failure and the long tail of underachievement, setting our schools system back immeasurably.

To date, the obsession with school structures has allowed the focus in education policy to move away from tackling failure and the long tail of underachievement, setting our schools system back immeasurably.

Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading — from the International Dyslexia Association (Executive Summary) «Reading difficulties are the most common cause of academic failure and underachievement.

Some of the most ambitious efforts to address the underachievement of African - American boys and young men have involved broad, systemic reforms — carefully conceived and clearly articulated transformations of entire school districts that are designed to run seamlessly from pre-kindergarten through high school.

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.

By engaging gifted individuals from diverse backgrounds in challenging curricula, educators are more likely to recognize their abilities and potential, understand differing points of view and cultures, and reduce underachievement.

Early intervention can prevent problems from snowballing, and it represents a more promising option for addressing underachievement than either retention or social promotion, the practice of passing students from grade to grade regardless of whether they have mastered the standards.

It is Professor Garner's view that this publication «provides one of the few attempts to understand the wider issues involved in underachievement, so that others may benefit from the telling.