I have three daughters, aged 9 to 14, and I too have great expectations for them to excel at school.
"They live in a highly competitive environment in Nassau County, and they're being raised in a tremendous amount of wealth, with high expectations and pressure to excel".
It's the expectation they need to excel because this now becomes the earlier road to Harvard".
With further analysis, it became clearer that a school's culture included aspects of science teachers (which we have discussed as a separate influence), the academic focus of the school, the status of science within the school, school expectations, competitiveness and opportunities to excel, and peers within the school (also discussed as a separate influence).
Parents' academic expectations are always very high in middle class societies so also their expectation for their children to excel in all the activities such as sports and arts.
She had high expectations: I knew I had to excel, to prepare mentally – she was very loving, but there was always a tension when we got in the car.
And djs take baths sometimes," she wrote -- Resident Advisor's choice to include the contentious scene may feed into the stereotype that, as female DJs, women must indulge certain expectations about their appearance in order to excel.
We suggest that teachers and administrators be made aware of the fundamental importance of a school science culture with an emphasis on high expectations, academic focus and opportunities for students to excel.
In this era of earlier and higher expectations, most of the students interviewed said they were driven to excel by parents who had seized on test scores and early college readiness as new benchmarks for success.
That truth does not rule out the need or desire to strive for perfection; it only tells us that in our efforts to excel, we are sometimes bound to fall short of our highest personal expectations and national aspirations.
