Sentences with phrase «struggled against the expectations»

In her bourgeois environs, she had to struggle against expectations that she would become a pampered housewife.

Not exact matches

The fact we struggle against mid table teams tells u where we are at... adjust your expectations kids

Though expectations were that former Michigan State head coach Nick Saban's bout against one - time assistant Mark Dantonio and Co. could be a defensive struggle, few anticipated the early lack of fireworks would be this pronounced.

They «struggled» in the first half of the year against the spread despite going 35 - 6, but turned it around in the second half as oddsmakers and public bettors realized that they were men, not machines, and lowered their expectations.

Wisconsin at Michigan St (Saturday 12:00 pm ET) Michigan State has certainly exceeded my expectations and got a huge road win at Notre Dame last week, while Wisconsin struggled at home against Georgia State.

His films are about people struggling within, and against, the confines of their culture, their industry, their expectations, and either busting through those walls or watching as the walls close in on them.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Educators sometimes lament a lack of partnership with families and note that unless the theory extends to learning at home, the methods don't always hold in the classroom and learners continue to struggle against stacked expectations.

«We are struggling against belief systems such as «fix the kids, not the schools» and expectations that go along with poverty.