In those time before open admissions, that is where the lowest achievers went.

About $25 million bought textbooks, classroom supplies and services like special reading programs for low achievers, or computer technology.

Many graduates have been grateful to him for transforming them from low achievers to successful people.

Low achievers can then attend after-school programs and Saturday schools provided in all grade levels throughout the school year.

In reading and science, low achievers benefit more from being in small classes.

It is generally spent on the lowest achievers, who receive remedial help in subjects like reading and math.

As city schools struggle to pull low achievers up to basic standards, those who are already doing well are often overlooked.

Conversely, lower achievers who do not segment time into past, present and future (time is now) will write down only one or two goals.

The thematic working group will identify and disseminate policy measures to improve the situation of low achievers in basic skills at national level.

Labeling students as low achievers is less relevant, since altering one or two variables can have significant positive effects on the average learner.

Some studies have found that groups of students with varying abilities help lower achievers to improve, and do no harm to those with higher scores.

All of the recent gains have been made, deliberately, at the low end of the socioeconomic scale and among the lowest achievers.

Unfortunately, however, it seems it's much more economically viable to employ low achievers that are unlikely to move on or complain about their working conditions.

The newcomers say they want their children to get the most rigorous possible education, even if that might mean separating high achievers from low achievers.

These skills can be applied to a fairly wide range of tasks which can be tackled by the lowest achievers.

Play therapy with low achievers in reading (Doctoral dissertation, University of North Texas, 1989).

Last year's 11th graders were Nassau County's lowest achievers on standardized tests, a result of what one school board member calls "a menu for failure."

However, the picture changes when low achievers, Blacks and Hispanics, in the U.S. are broken out by race.

It requires these schools to select as many students - 16 percent - from the ranks of the lowest achievers as they do from the highest.

The study found that 40 percent of retained seventh graders eventually dropped out, compared with 25 percent of nonretained low achievers.

Although her parents had always treated her normally, Fiona had still been a victim of society's tendency to view Down's children as low achievers.

Tracking is the practice of dividing students at the primary or secondary school level into separate classes, depending if the student is high, average, or low achievers.

Their new neighborhood schools, filled with low achievers, are unlike those they recall from childhood, so these city dwellers easily conclude that public schools used to be better.

There was more progress in science than in maths and the share of low achievers is today lower in science than in maths.

Ms. Gantwerk says some districts may be placing low achievers in special-education classes so their standardized test scores will not be counted in the district's average.