Reginald Mayo, the superintendent of this city's mostly poor, chronically underachieving school district, has a vision of education that goes something like this: Teachers, besides instructing students, also advise and encourage parents who are having trouble keeping their youngsters in school.
The authors concluded that controlling for SES and language is necessary in order to find other factors influencing differences between over- and underachieving school classes.
In a study on reading achievement among Swedish third grade students in the Stockholm area, Damber, Samuelsson, and Taube (2012) found significant differences between over- and underachieving school classes on measures such as number of books at home, parents' education, family income, and another first language than Swedish.
I can't imagine a single parent would opt to leave their child in an underachieving school, if the possibility exists to leave.
With 151,000 people in 8.2 square miles, it is the third-largest city in New Jersey, and it is plagued by drugs, gang violence and stubbornly underachieving schools.
But around the country, in small, medium and large school districts, urban and rural, educators saw the threat of underachieving schools losing children to better schools as an empty gesture.
A second component would permit some disadvantaged students to switch public schools and take their federal dollars with them, a move Republicans said would prompt underachieving schools to shape up.
St George's, University of London, found that undergraduates who gained entry through its Adjust scheme – which allows students with BBC grades from underachieving schools to be interviewed in the same circumstances as other applicants – performed as well as their peers throughout the course.
Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart, who was described as "devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, [and] clever".
Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart, described as "devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, [and] clever".
Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart who she found more fascinating because he was described as "devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, [and] clever".
