"backward student" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a student who is not making the usual progress in their studies. For example, "The teacher was worried about the backward student who wasn't keeping up with the rest of the class."
He is not the first one to complain about America's backward students, nor will he be the last, I imagine.
In bending over backward to help students understand the ideology behind the attacks, they say, educators have gone so far as to be unpatriotic.
Henry Adams once observed that a chronological survey of American presidents might suggest that Darwin got it exactly backward, and many students of history have come to see the founding fathers as a generation of demigods whose like will never be seen again — demigods who magically devised a set of ideas and institutions that would eventually become a blueprint for democracy around the world.
Once a side-show, ePortfolios are beginning to play a more central role in higher education, connecting both forward (graduates to jobs) and backward (high school students to admissions).
"This conference is a step backward," said Miguel Ángel Valdez, a student of mechanical engineering at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, as he stood outside the security line surrounding the conference, guarded by thousands of soldiers and police officers.
Punishment: Looks backward and penalizes a student for misconduct.
You will start with the end in your mind--your students learning--and will plan your course according to a student-focused backward design.
To judge whether a teacher elevates the class or sets students spiraling backward, administrators should look at the biggest possible picture.
Conflicting results were seen in scientific studies, but the majority of the studies seemed to point to the fact that home schooled children are not socially any more backward than mainstream school students or are perhaps even better because of absence of damaging peer influence.
By virtue of our service, student veterans work backward from the rest of the student population.
