Sentences with phrase «stresses of high achievement»

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He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.

He argues that toxic stress and instability on one end of the spectrum vs. overprotectiveness and lack of opportunities to overcome adversity on the opposite can lead to a deficit in developing the character traits «especially likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement.»

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

What is stressed in all these stories is the apparently miraculous, non-determined and a-social nature of artistic achievement; this semi-religious conception of the artist's role is elevated to hagiography in the 19th - century, when both art historians, critics and, not least, some of the artists themselves tended to elevate the making of art into a substitute religion, the last bulwark of Higher Values in a materialistic world.

Studies consistently suggest that exposure to trauma or chronic early life stress may impair the development of executive function skills.6, 7,9,10,11 These skills appear to provide the foundation for school readiness through cognition and behaviour.3, 12 Children with better executive function skills may be more teachable.3 Indeed, in a high - risk sample, children with better executive function skills at the beginning of kindergarten showed greater gains in literacy and numeracy than children with poorer initial skills.12 Considering there is evidence that the achievement gap persists and may even widen across the school years, 16,17 it is critical that high - risk children begin school with as successful of a start as possible.

Results: Maleparticipants who rated lowest in income and scholarly achievement showed the highest rates of stress and problematic behaviors.

In comparison to children of parents with an emotion dismissing philosophy, emotion coached children tend to have better physiological and emotion regulation abilities, fewer externalising and internalising symptoms, higher self - esteem, less physiological stress, and higher levels of academic achievement (e.g., Shortt et al. 2010; Gottman et al. 1996).