Other researchers have zeroed in on other culprits, whether inferior schools, lower teacher expectations, impoverished family backgrounds or some combination.
I understand the current rhetoric suggests that a slimmed-down curriculum will give teachers more freedom, but my concern is that children's experience of English will be impoverished unless certain expectations are made clear in curriculum documents.
It needs to, after 14 years of failures in the development of rockets powerful enough to loft a satellite — particularly when its secretive leadership encourages its impoverished people to indulge in grandiose expectations.
In 1933 he joined Bracken and Anderson in protesting to Bennett that nothing more could be done: in Brownlee's view, the province's impoverished people could not pay more taxes, and yet expectations of provincial governments were constantly growing.
The field staffs' dedication, commitment, and quality of work far surpassed rational expectations, even for staff in the most impoverished regions of UP.
Yet we are home to a middle class confronting the erosion of several decades of financial and social gains and a deeply entrenched population of impoverished Americans cursed with diminished opportunities, diminished ways of escape, and diminished expectations.
Finally, many of the more decadent expat habits and expectations (expensive restaurants, private generators, jet-setting to workshops) make us even more incomprehensible to impoverished locals and, more importantly, vice-versa.
Organisers hope that cameras will show otherwise impoverished townships coming alive with football fever, which may depend on Bafana Bafana, ranked 90th in the world, performing above expectations.
Again, the strong expectation in this setting was that research would result in benefits to the community, and particularly to impoverished community members.
Both communities were impoverished.
