Documentary: U.S. Students No Match for Peers in India, China China and India may be associated with lower - cost products and labor, but these countries are mass - producing highly - educated, motivated students — who surpass their U.S.
peers at every academic level.
Not exact matches
Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused
peers, and are
at risk for lower
levels of
academic achievement.
Most students enter TEAM Schools one - or - more years below grade
level in reading and math, but in a few short years, they achieve
at academic levels that outpace their
peers across the state.
But that does not necessarily mean keeping her with her age
peers, denying her the opportunity to have true
peers at her own social, emotional, and
academic levels, or forcing her to «act» like someone she isn't.
The schools are designed around the belief that low - income students can achieve
at the same
academic levels as their more affluent
peers when given access to similar opportunities and resources.
Hierarchical linear model analyses revealed that,
at the individual
level, Mexican - American adolescents» who reported more chronic
peer victimization incidents across the two - weeks also reported heightened distress and
academic problems.
Consistent with previous studies, we found that (a) being less prosocial and more physically aggressive
at age 10 was characteristic of those children with the high rejection trajectory; (b) being less attractive was related to higher
peer rejection from age 10 to 14; and (c) boys with a high rejection trajectory showed high
levels of delinquency and anxiety - depression and low
levels of
academic aspiration
at age 16 — 17, whereas girls with a high rejection trajectory showed low
levels of
academic aspiration and social competence
at age 16 — 17.