low achievement

collocation in English

meaningsoflowandachievement

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low
adjective
uk
/ləʊ/us
/loʊ/
not measuring much from the base to ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition oflowandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Reform 4 was also assigned the highest probability for thelowachievementlevel.
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This conundrum of great economic potential butlowachievementsuggests that a robust internal growth engine requires much more than equality in poverty.
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Configuration 4 (lowachievement) involved 157 boys (29% of the sample) with poor academic achievement.
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This indicated that boys in the multiple problem andlowachievementconfigurations were significantly less likely to show persistent offending if their father participated in a community activity.
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He was referred because of reading problems,lowachievement, and disruptive behavior in the classroom, where he was unable to focus his attention and was in constant motion.
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These will impact onlowachievementwherever it occurs, including on boys' achievements.
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Most important, there are special arrangements to pay forlowachievementoutcomes, in terms of word power and number power, for special needs trainees.
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If schools are doing badly year after year, with alowachievementrate, something should be done about them.
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Too often it institutionaliseslowachievementand therefore leads to unreasonably low expectations among teachers for the pupils whom they teach.
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There was a reliance on a single industry, and a culture oflowachievementand low aspiration resulted.
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In my constituency, there is a culture oflowachievementand low aspirations.
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A few years ago, we were worried about thelowachievementof a significant proportion of our school-age population.
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We all know examples of lack of discipline, oflowachievementand of truancy.
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Those are the problems that have caused the culture oflowachievement.
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Unemployment increases the demands on education, becauselowachievementgoes hand in hand with unemployment.
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That places them on a cycle oflowachievementand dismal prospects, which may be with them for the rest of their lives.
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It is not because of vindictiveness on our part orlowachievementon their part.
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The other reason forlowachievementis that little is expected of the children.
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There are no excuses forlowachievement.
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