Sentences with phrase «underachieving at»

Underachieving at school If gifted children don't get the right learning opportunities, they might not be able to use their abilities to get good school results.

Professor Sonia Blandford, founder and CEO of education charity Achievement for All, which developed and delivers the programme, said: «The UK has one of the widest attainment gaps in education anywhere in the developed world with one - in - five children currently underachieving at school.

Some of those signed to provide firepower to City's team proved to be excellent value for money but others failed to justify their fees and were sold on at a loss after underachieving at the Etihad.

Overall, however, Ramos underachieved at Spurs.

massively underachieved at both PSG and with France, relative to the players / wealth available to him.

«For instance when kids underachieve at school, I never take anything away.

The study showed that 36 per cent of bright but disadvantaged boys seriously underachieve at age 16, and 24 per cent of girls getting disappointing GCSE results.

• Be overweight • Underachieve at school • Be less physically active • Drink more sugary drinks • Snack on foods high in sugar, salt and fat • Sleep less and • Have fewer social interactions [2]

Paying a couple thousand to a graphic art student for the Photoshops was, allegedly, their biggest investment, even underachieving ATS Automobili GT in the process.

Furthermore, children may be victimised by peers because they underachieve at school whereas others may be bullied for overachieving.

Not exact matches

This would imply that atheists tend to be intelligent, but underachieving, sad bitter men who watch others succeed in life and snipe at the fools who pass them by.

With what he had to work with at Everton he has underachieved.

at the start of his career he inherited the best back 4 + gk in the league... won 2 league titles later on i admit he was able to sign good defenders and cdm to build arguably one of the best team in europe at that time... but even with that team he underachieved.....

The Los Angeles Galaxy forward will spend the MLS off - season playing in England for the underachieving Toffees, who at week's end were in 15th place in the Premier League, and will return to the U.S. in time for the March start of the MLS season.

Typically when Cinderella makes it all the way to the final weekend of the tournament, the «great underdog» is a power conference team that underachieved for most of the season before getting hot at the right time.

The Reds are prepared to be ruthless with their underachieving attack at the end of the season, and no second chances are set to be rewarded to new signings Balotelli and Lambert after their miserable debut campaign at Anfield.

By breaking these seeds into clusters with reasonably similar expected win totals — 1 - 3 seeds (2.1 to 3.4 wins), 4 - 7 seeds (0.9 to 1.4), 8 - 12 seeds (0.5 to 0.7), 13 - 16 seeds (0.0 to 0.3)-- we can, in theory, look at the general characteristics of teams that tend to overachieve or underachieve come tourney time.

Ballerina recharging at the back you said, that cost the 4th goal at Liverpool I recall, look people we need a director of football performance that way underachieving players can be moved on quickly even at a loss sometimes, as for mustafi his stats and performance was good when he was bought and still does the job for Germany but at arsenal I'm still to be convinced

Wallace admits that the resulting five - player trade, which brought underachieving Vin Baker to Boston, was «a calculated risk,» because the four years and $ 32 million left on Baker's contract gives the team a third player at maximum salary and restricts its ability to make a major trade until at least the 2005 - 06 season.

By looking at that, I'm not sure how people can say we underachieved.

Arsenal were a shambles in the early running Saints could have been 3 up at half time Arsenal were pretty poor today I am tired excuses for Arsenal underachieving.

In Serie A, Montella's side are currently fifth with 39 points, six points behind third - placed Napoli, who occupy the final Champions League spot, and will look to close the gap starting this weekend as they take on underachieving Inter Milan at the San Siro.

Its only at Arsenal where the manager can constantly underachieve for a decade and still be secure in his job and still be given the freedom to make the same stupidly obvious mistakes season after season.

After his second chance, including the classic «blame - the - coordinators» shake - up, Zook continued leading talented UIUC teams to underachieving records while becoming increasingly ineffective at his calling card of recruitment.

Carmelo Anthony as a No. 8 seed is this bracket's version of «toss the blue blood program that underachieved into the 8 - 9 matchup so at least we get a good TV game in the second round.»

As a result, three out of four spread bets remain committed to Philip Rivers and the underachieving Chargers winning by at least four points against MJD and the 3 - 8 Jags.

Wenger is bitterly underachieving with the players he currently has at his disposal.

I personally think that the club still has little chance of retaining our 2 world class players despite the rumours but it will obviously come at a cost and be difficult: 1 - Pay them more than anybody else but, and unfortunately they will probably have to insert some type of release clause for next summer if the right club and offer arrives to let them go in case of an ultimate painful underachieving season.

Another player who perhaps underachieved due to injuries, Michael Owen made a blistering start to his Anfield career before tailing off slightly, but remains one of the best at the club in recent times.

In a battle of underachieving teams, the New York Mets (14 - 16) will host the San Francisco Giants (11 - 20) in the opening game of a three - game series at Citi Field.

The only thing that will save this season for the underachieving Pacers is, at minimum, a repeat of last year's dramatic playoff effort that ended in a five - game defeat by Boston.

Everton and Sunderland go into the last few games having underachieved heavily this season but with still much at stake.

Jürgen Klopp hasn't won a trophy in his three seasons at Liverpool, but he has transformed an underachieving club into one of the most thrilling attacking sides in Europe.

An underachieving club with vast financial resources and a new manager is always going to be linked with a large quantity of players, and for new Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, that is indeed the case of his first season at the club.

Anyway just popped in to remind everyone that we havnt threatened to win a trophy in 5 + years and also remind you that Wenger promised changes at the height of our underachieving and again after our poor finish to the season only 3 mths ago.....

Juventus underachieved thus far with the numerous missed opportunities, but were firmly in control at halftime, 1 - 0.

In one of the most surprising transfers yet this season, overweight Spurs striker Mido has joined underachieving (in the Prem at least) Sunderland for a fee of  # 6m.

Thailand international Chappuis joins from Suphanburi, where he has spent the last three years, hoping to enjoy the success that eluded him at the ambitious but underachieving War Elephant.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

Black plays Lemuel Gulliver, an underachieving, i.e. lazy, mailroom clerk at the New York Tribune, who spends almost as much time playing Guitar Hero in his office as he does delivering letters to other people's desks.

Their other cousin, Daisy (Jessica Simpson at her most undressed), makes up the remainder of this clan of underachieving nobodies.

When the opportunity arises to join Frank's band as keyboard player he leaps at it, no matter that the outfit is so shambolically underachieving that it lacks a fanbase, record label and — most unbelievable of all — a Twitter account.

It makes sense that our dear protagonist would be a fan of Wes Anderson's seminal indie - comedy; its main character, Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), also happens to be an imaginative, underachieving scholarship student who dabbles in theater at a prestigious high school.

Thankfully UTV's DVD and most especially Blu - ray meticulously capture the audiovisual splendor as it appeared on the big screen, and the underachieving financial returns at cinemas have not prevented the studio from including an informative making - of documentary on both editions.

Newburgh, N.Y. — Howard Jones, a bright but underachieving 7th grader at South Junior High School, has had his first brush with the law.

«And the social consequences of that is that the students in the schools with the most resources — often the white students — can develop computing skills, while minorities at underachieving schools don't have the opportunity.»

Back in class, maybe the assignment was to write a narrative demonstrating membership in a community, and the guy at the head of the class has elicited chuckles with his account of life as an underachieving painter on a construction crew.

Enlisting the Community to Promote Achievement Concerned that many urban students, especially African - American ones, were underachieving in school, Hugh B. Price made community involvement in local schools a focus of his tenure at the National Urban League as well as the subject of a book.

The school indicated that boys were a key target, so the programme identified underachieving boys who regularly engaged or enjoyed PE — not necessarily those who were good at it — so that the context would be a successful engager.

Thus, my challenge to you is to find an underachieving gifted child (research shows about half of gifted learners experience underachievement - or the gap between potential and performance at some point in their school career) and give them a good year.