Reversing
Underachievement among Gifted Black Students: Promising Practices and Programs.
Cultural Diversity E604: Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students for Special Education Eligibility (2000) E584: Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (1999) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E500: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Problems (1991) E500s: Reforzando a los alumnos Diversos Culturalmente y Lingüí con Aprendizaje (1999) E596: Five Strategies to Reduce Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education (2000) E520: Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted (1993) E601: Infusing Multicultural Content into the Curriculum for Gifted Students (2000) E589: The Implications of Culture on Developmental Delay (1999) E566: Reducing the Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education (1998) E544:
Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises (1997) E614: Cultural Reciprocity Aids Collaboration with Families (2001)
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.
A Study of Achievement and
Underachievement Among Gifted, Potentially Gifted, and Regular Education Black Students.
Suggestions and recommendations for reversing
underachievement among gifted minority students are presented.
Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia are often misdiagnosed as
underachievement among gifted children.
For instance, the site provides articles that cover everything from identification of gifted students, using models such as enrichment clusters, teaching reading and math, and
underachievement among the gifted.
Not exact matches
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.
It uses an e-platform with customizable and adaptable lesson plans to address student
underachievement and high repetition rates
among public school students.
Although Massachusetts is often hailed as a leader in public education,
underachievement is common
among poor and minority students.
Our failure in this area has shown itself in,
among other things, the academic
underachievement of disadvantaged children.
This brief highlights four components of culturally and linguistically - responsive prereferral interventions: 1) preventing school
underachievement and failure
among culturally and linguistically diverse learners, 2) early intervention for struggling learners, 3) diagnostic and prescriptive teaching, and 4) availability of general education problem - solving support systems.
Low engagement might show up in measurable ways like low participation in school activities or
underachievement (low grades
among kids with high test scores).
There is little consensus on how best to define
underachievement, particularly
among gifted students.