In his junior year, he switched to a "continuation" school for underperforming students.
In an effort to help underperforming students catch up on standardized tests and give them more opportunities for enrichment activities, 35 schools that enroll about 17,500 students will expand the school day and year in the 2013-14 academic year.
Although the program does not include high-stakes consequences, our estimates indicate that the program reduced the share of underperforming students by 18%.
The idea for summer courses for underperforming students came out of meetings in which parents and educators participated, during which they crafted a set of goals and programs aimed to decide how state education funds should be spent on local students, according to Peter Knapick, the district's director of elementary education.
Within medical education, likewise experiencing an upsurge in enrolment [ 3], this has been accompanied by increased research into the efficacy of remediation for underperforming students, with a recent review noting the need for further development and examination of the details of complex interventions [ 4].
Given the now-assured decline in education time, already underperforming Chicago students might not be able to do the math themselves until, say, 10th grade.
I certainly wouldn't wish more underperforming U.S. students were ending their lives so we could do better on international tests.
If teachers are underperforming, or if student achievement appears to be plateauing, teachers can become paralyzed and fall prey to self-doubt or frustration.
The primary interest throughout is whether, where, when and why ethnic minority students underperform relative to white students, and the extent to which any differences might explain the underperformance of medical students from ethnic minorities.
As long as cheating remains a part of our country's education policy, "decisions based on test results may be faulty, and lead to damaging results, including failing to identify and provide resources for underperforming schools and students most in need of academic support," reported the GAO.
