Sentences with phrase «of underachievement in»

No matter the cause, it is imperative that a caring and perceptive adult help gifted learners break the cycle of underachievement in order to achieve their full potential.

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

Without effective support for these areas of development, children are at risk of underachievement in many other areas of learning.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

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.

Don't accept what has become status quo for our club and stay silent or the board will hand him another contract to ensure more years of underachievement (on the football field and not in fiscal terms).

I was wondering when someone was going to write a Wenger defense and would you know, here it is in the form of an article that air brushes 9 years of almost script like underachievements.

In past years there have been many contributing factors to our underachievement; a terrible misfortune (and / or mismanagement) with injuries, the rise of super clubs, our limited budget, etc..

I feel sorry for Wenger, He started as a great coach, builded for himself a legend statute but he s destroying it by persisting in his failed model of play.You can come with all the excuses of the world but one fa cup in ten years is a massive underachievement for a club of Arsenal stature.Age caught him.

When he transfered to Barcelona it was at the time a world record transfer fee but his time in Barcelona was short lived full of controversies and underachievement as he only manage to win a «copa del rey» trophy with Barcelona.

On the face of it, you would say that this highlights the massive underachievement by Arsenal in the Champions League, and it perhaps does.

In terms of silverware, those nine years were as good as it has got for Les Dogues as just two years after their second Ligue 1 success in 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the standIn terms of silverware, those nine years were as good as it has got for Les Dogues as just two years after their second Ligue 1 success in 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the standin 1954, they were relegated to Ligue 2, a catastrophe that led to decades of underachievement on the pitch and disappointment in the standin the stands.

After decades of underachievement following a UEFA European Championship triumph on home soil in 1964, Spain have become world football's dominant force.

Steph is more fortunate than many young people with dyscalculia, whose difficulties in math — and the anxiety their troubles tend to stir — can set them on a path of overall underachievement.

In most cases, however, student underachievement, particularly in reading, can be identified by testing skills in the academic domain in question; by direct comparisons of the student's age and grade with speaking, reading, writing, and math skills; or simply by uneven overall performance regardless of IQ leveIn most cases, however, student underachievement, particularly in reading, can be identified by testing skills in the academic domain in question; by direct comparisons of the student's age and grade with speaking, reading, writing, and math skills; or simply by uneven overall performance regardless of IQ levein reading, can be identified by testing skills in the academic domain in question; by direct comparisons of the student's age and grade with speaking, reading, writing, and math skills; or simply by uneven overall performance regardless of IQ levein the academic domain in question; by direct comparisons of the student's age and grade with speaking, reading, writing, and math skills; or simply by uneven overall performance regardless of IQ levein question; by direct comparisons of the student's age and grade with speaking, reading, writing, and math skills; or simply by uneven overall performance regardless of IQ level.

Beyond Banneker: Black Mathematicians and the Paths to Excellence Erica Walker An in - depth look at the lives, experiences, and professional careers of black mathematicians in the United States, Beyond Banneker takes the emphasis off the usual discussion of underachievement and moves it instead to excellence.

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.

Constructing and implementing a data system is an essential function that moves a school toward addressing the underachievement of students living in poverty.

In the last third of the book, Seidenberg launches a full frontal assault on what he derisively refers to as the «culture of education,» which contributes significantly to reading underachievement.

In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standardIn Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standardin many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Assistant Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo underscores the wisdom of that recommendation in new research that questions assumptions often made about the link between rap / hip - hop - influenced youth culture and underachievement in inner - city schools.

However, it is questionable whether higher standards and increased accountability will benefit students who have fallen behind in their learning, reduce levels of disengagement among these students, or decrease Australia's «long tail» of underachievement.

One indicator of progress in reducing Australia's long tail of underachievement would be a reduction in the percentage of 15 - year - olds not meeting the OECD's baseline proficiency levels as measured by PISA.

Associate Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo underscores the wisdom of that recommendation in new research that questions assumptions often made about the link between rap / hip - hop - influenced youth culture and underachievement in inner - city schools.

In short, the long tail of underachievement will be reduced by expecting and ensuring that every student makes excellent progress every year.

Having worked for an organisation that dealt with integration of non-nationals and disadvantaged [5] children in Dutch society and the educational system for primary school children specifically, there was heartbreaking evidence and examples that those who needed to assess the environmental conditions young children were catapulted into, could not — and will never — understand the extent of trauma these children and their parents had been exposed to; subsequently, unable to realistically assess the cause of underachievement and trauma, nor adequate measures could be taken to equip fugitives with sufficient resources to overcome this disadvantaged position.

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.

In the short term, he said, the US economy would be insulated against this underachievement because it still had a «strong skill base, simply because it was the first economy investing in universal education in the 1960s, and those people still make up a large part of the workforce»In the short term, he said, the US economy would be insulated against this underachievement because it still had a «strong skill base, simply because it was the first economy investing in universal education in the 1960s, and those people still make up a large part of the workforce»in universal education in the 1960s, and those people still make up a large part of the workforce»in the 1960s, and those people still make up a large part of the workforce».

The volunteer participants, who are paid a stipend, are trained on ways to break the «cycle of blame» for student underachievement by bringing parents and educators together in a home setting.

Our failure in this area has shown itself in, among other things, the academic underachievement of disadvantaged children.

His interests include the underachievement of high - ability students, the development of appropriate curriculum for high - ability students and the role of creativity in gifted and talented education.

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.

St Anthony's School, a smaller - than - average primary in Gloucestershire, was found to be inadequate in three of five categories with inspectors raising concerns over weak teaching and pupil underachievement.

The underachievement and underparticipation of women and minorities in STEM has been explored for many years (Asher, 1985; Berryman, 1983; Gandara, 1995; Oakes, 1990; Rendon, 1985).

Increasing attention is being paid to the geography of school underachievement - such as in coastal areas and regional differences.

Teachers participating in the research raised concerns about how class groupings can widen «gaps in attainment» and worsen inequalities that already exist in the system, such as the underachievement of summer - born children.

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.

In between is a spread of success and underachievement, with the analysis concluding that there is little overall difference between academy trusts and local authorities.

I would argue that it is those students who gifted programs should be targeting, in order to stop them falling into a cycle of frustration, underachievement, and possibly dropping out of school altogether.

One way in which the students perceived themselves as able to reverse the underachievement pattern was through developing goals the attainment of which was both personally motivating and directly related to academic success.

While there is a clear need to increase the participation of minority students in gifted education programs, there is an equally important need to focus on issues of achievement and underachievement.

The in - school performance pattern of the students in this study suggests that the reversal of underachievement may be lengthy and marked by uneven progress.

The Class All of the subjects in this study identified specific characteristics of academic classes as contributing to the reversal of academic underachievement.

It became clear that for many students identified with special needs, underachievement in reading was due primarily to the quality of teaching.

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.

Such efforts can create a space to discuss and name whiteness as a set of blinders and open possibilities for sustained dialogue to understand the ways we are complicit in the underachievement of some of our students.

Closing the ATTITUDE Gap The discussion on gaps in student achievement continue to be one of the most important discussions in education today; particularly as it relates to the underachievement of children of color.

Their dogmatic belief that poverty is the root cause of educational underachievement is a cop - out in an age in which there are great examples of schools, traditional, charter and private, who are helping kids reach brighter futures.