Sentence examples for poor academics from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Singleton said there is still much work to do to change the culture of poor academics and truancy.

Overcoming the culture of poor academics and truancy that have become endemic to the district, he said, is a mightier task.

Thomas reportedly bemoaned a 'parasitic' relationship between high-flying popular historians, who let poor academics slave away in archives, doing the real work of research, before nabbing their findings and using them in mass-market paperbacks.

In Paterson, an industrial city once known for its silk factories, district officials rolled out SchoolStat last spring to help turn around a school system that has been under state control since 1991 because of fiscal mismanagement and poor academics.

The 28,000-student Paterson district, which has been under state control since 1991 because of fiscal mismanagement and poor academics, failed to show satisfactory progress over the last year in any of the five main areas being evaluated: instruction and programs, school board operations, personnel, building maintenance and school safety, and budgetary issues.

"The staff just didn't want to face the facts," Ms. Ivkovic said, wincing as she described the flourishing commerce in classrooms that were packed with up to 60 children because parents had apparently paid bribes to get them enrolled, drawn by the school's outstanding sports curriculum, not its poor academics.

"Poor academic performance is causally related to overcrowding.

Neuroticism, for example, predicted poor academic performance and even attrition.

Even more concerning for educators is that poor sleep is inevitably accompanied by poor academic performance.

In addition to poor academic performance, there have been many cases of financial and administrative failures.

The N.C.A.A. has also cited Buffalo's football team for the players' poor academic performance.