| Why is the Executive not waging war on underachievement among the underprivileged in our schools? |
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| It is a songwriting career of underachievement perforated by sublime moments. |
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| He is one of many major-league names he has put his shirt on only to be let down by their naked underachievement. |
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| In school-age children, depression can manifest as underachievement and withdrawal from activities. |
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| English sport, that institution of chronic underachievement, has suddenly found people who know how to win. |
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| Our hope is to show how this disastrous underachievement might begin to be rectified. |
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| He knows that he carries much of the responsibility for his latest club's current underachievement. |
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| Perhaps even worse than stigmatizing minorities, affirmative action programs obscure the problems that lead to minority underachievement. |
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| It can result in significant underachievement, even harm, not to mention wasted resources. |
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| Neither realm is renowned for rewarding mediocrity and underachievement. |
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| Add to this a calamitous exit from the final Champions League qualifier and an early end to their Carling Cup campaign and it has been underachievement all the way. |
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| Internally, they experience students' underachievement, lack of interest in prevailing contents, and unemployability. |
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| In each case, a scale is set for grading the annual bonus up for overachievement or down for underachievement against the annual target. |
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| More efforts are needed to support the acquisition of key competences for those at risk of educational underachievement and social exclusion. |
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| A child who is stunted is likely to experience a lifetime of poor health and underachievement, so the answer lies in prevention. |
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| He has researched and made many presentations on the underlying causes of underachievement and its long-term impact on adolescents. |
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| But if the Spanish have become Europe's footballing superpower, which country has inherited its old mantle of underachievement? |
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| In Rotterdam, the City Council has taken steps to address segregation in schools, drop out rates and underachievement. |
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| The most disgraceful underachievement of the effort towards the Millennium Development Goals is the lack of progress to improve maternal health. |
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| Similarly, addressing underachievement in Aarhus has become a priority for the city. |
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| This way well-performing states can compensate for the underachievement of weak or lazy states. |
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| Overall, there is a lack of research and data concerning the educational underachievement of non-migrant ethnic minority groups. |
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| Boys' underachievement in terms of participation and performance is increasingly an issue, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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| His own shtick had been the opposite, burning with little but the strange, anxious desire to scald himself for underachievement. |
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| The elimination of dropout and repetition, however, would not necessarily solve the problem of underachievement. |
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| Would the City school have remedied its record of underachievement without special measures? |
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| My aim is to provide research-based knowledge about addressing boys' underachievement and to question these takenfor-granted approaches or interventions. |
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| If children of migrants leave school with an experience of underachievement and segregation which carries on in their later life, the risk is that such a pattern is perpetuated also in the next generation. |
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| In France, although schooling is compulsory, there are many children from Turkey who cannot continue their education, mainly because of underachievement. |
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| In other regions, there is a growing problem of underachievement by boys. |
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| In a larger number of less obvious cases, the result is likely to be less than optimal cognitive and linguistic development and underachievement in school. |
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| And he's very interested in whether you can have a set of targets which get you looking really at the causes of poverty: education underachievement, drug problems, all those kinds of drivers of people being in poverty. |
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| To call the Six Nations an underachievement seemed pretty reckless when you consider they were only beaten by Ireland. |
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| The 44-year-old spent the last few years peddling his puppy dog eyes in the face of continued underachievement but has now managed to find a club that is evidently even less ambitious than him. |
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| Here is a man who brought this country sporting glory – after years of woeful underachievement, remember – only to be rewarded with that curiously British thing: mild derision. |
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| Ofsted, the schools watchdog, has previously highlighted the problem of underachievement of white working class children, which has also been the subject of an inquiry by the cross-party education committee. |
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| Moreover the tail of underachievement is long and cannot be explained away by immigration: around a fifth of British students cannot read properly and a similar number are flummoxed by simple sums. |
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| Given the lack of research in this area, it is rather difficult to assess the extent to which educational underachievement of migrants and ethnic minority groups can be traced back to forms of discrimination. |
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| Exacerbation of male underachievement and young male economic and social marginalization is an important gender issue that must be addressed in order to realize development progress. |
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| In Bradford, underachievement of young people of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin is a significant factor in the alienation of many of them not only from the local situation, but also from themselves. |
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| Low proficiency in all languages and mathematical underachievement is clearly linked and may explain some minority groups' underperformance in mathematics. |
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| There is abundant evidence that people who feel they were unfavoured as children are at greater risk of problems such as depression and underachievement. |
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| They are fifth in the table, a point ahead of big-spending Trabzonspor for whom this season has been one of massive overinvestment and underachievement. |
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| Two in five fell short of the basic skills, and Kieran Donnelly, Comptroller and Auditor General, said more must be done to tackle the growing problem of underachievement. |
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| Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has reaffirmed his determination to address the factors which contribute to social disadvantage and educational underachievement. |
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| Estyn's Ann Keane said bullying not only affects a child emotionally and psychologically, but it can trigger poor attendance and underachievement. |
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