To the extent that the emphasis on low taxes has undermined educational attainment in red state America, the anti-tax Reagan Revolution has turned the GOP into a fount of public policy moralism that has undermined the economic success and security of those communities that it represents.
It appears likely that routine setting or streaming arrangements undermine low attainers' confidence and discourage the belief that attainment can be improved through effort.
Additional attempts to boost motivation and self-efficacy could therefore lead to overmotivation, which is known to hamper effective goal striving and undermine rates of goal attainment (Baumeister, 1984; Heckhausen & Strang, 1988).
The ILO advocates against child labour which undermines progress towards the attainment of MDG's for poverty reduction, education, HIV/AIDS and gender equality.
The conference brings together 80 governments, UN agencies, multinational companies and NGO's to highlight the reality that child labour is significantly undermining progress towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
The conference (http://www.childlabourconference2010.com/) brings together 80 governments, UN agencies, multinational companies and NGO's to highlight the reality that child labour is significantly undermining progress towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals.
It also backed the findings of other previous studies showing high noise levels can undermine reading, memory, language and attention in children with life-long knock on effects on educational attainment.
To undermine this undermines our parliamentary democracy.
Another possibility is that redistribution tends to substitute for shaky borrowing by non-rich households, of the sort that can undermine growth or cause nasty credit meltdowns:In their 2011 paper Messrs Berg and Ostry note that more unequal societies do poorly on social indicators such as educational attainment, even after controlling for income levels.
