Sentences with phrase «part of underachievement»

We know that part of underachievement is due to children with very significant special educational needs where progress can be much slower.

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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 standards.

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».

Under the other Jindal proposal, parents of students attending failure mills throughout the state would be allowed to vote on whether it can become part of the Recovery School District after three years of persistent academic underachievement; the schools would essentially be converted into charters under state oversight.

The study's findings indicate that academic underachievement can be reversed as a result of modifications on the part of both the student and the school.

Reversing underachievement among gifted minority students requires intensive efforts on the part of teachers and counselors, as well as a partnership with parents and students.