Still, nine of them are "high achieving, " working above grade level in some subjects.
"She was very high achieving and was in the top 10% of performance in the school, " Mrs Bell said.
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These are all high achieving kids who went to excellent high schools, which makes it harder because of their peer group.
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Probably the most famous average student was David Letterman, who openly admits he was not a high achieving student but as we all know, possesses the gift of creativity.
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The IoE report recommends more emphasis on ensuring that "high achieving school-children in England manage to keep pace with the highest achieving pupils in secondary school via, for instance gifted and talented schemes".
Overall English pupils achieved scores in line with the international average for maths in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), with the top 10% of pupils' results comparable with those from some high achieving East Asian countries.
Mr. Zhao's first foray into the genetics of intelligence was a plan to collect DNA from high-achieving kids at local high schools.
We have a high-achieving class that happens to be high-earning.
They will praise high-achieving students and give them information about how to apply to university.
Scholarship providers rarely communicate with one another, so high-achieving students can land multiple scholarships.
For a fee Coursera provides potential employers with the names of high-achieving students.
An appraisal system will be introduced which will offer high-achieving teachers a 10% increase.
However, researchers have suggested that this is because they have high-achieving pupils, and not because they are single-sex.
People with Asperger's are often high-achieving but can have difficulty in social situations.
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High-achieving men whose whole identity is wrapped up in work are particularly vulnerable.
For Ipesup, meanwhile, taking a middling student and turning her into a high-achieving one is the name of the game.
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The government says that the Pisa findings show that England is one of the countries with the largest numbers of high-achieving students.
Under government proposals, universities in England will be able to take on as many high-achieving students as they wish, starting from September 2012.
For example, in your tale you may want to be both a kind loving parent totally committed to family and a hard-driving, high-achieving executive totally committed to success.
Education Secretary Michael Gove wants to replace GCSEs with tougher exams as he believes pupils in England have been slipping behind high-achieving nations such as Finland and Singapore.
David, the younger by three years, speaks unashamedly of his struggle to keep up with the high-achieving James, his emotions swinging from pride and love to envy and hate.
He has built his career in part on a surprising proposition: that the most productive, high-achieving people are also the people who are the most giving and altruistic.
There will of course be many high-achieving summer-born people who buck the trend, and Sir Chris Woodhead says it is "dangerous" to assume that it applies to every child.
As a trainer, speaker and certified professional development coach she works with high-achieving careerists and entrepreneurs who want to bring balance and parity into their professional and personal lives.
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Sir Peter called for "more sustained and intensive support for these high-achieving young people, so that they can gain entry to the selective universities for which they are qualified".
High-achieving countries have large classes taught by great teachers.
Schlunk argues that undergraduate grades are a strong indicator of future earnings power and that the fact that high-achieving undergraduates are more likely to get a law degree has skewed earnings comparisons.
But he warned that because the way these places were likely to be allocated, a lot of high-achieving students who narrowly miss out on getting their prediction of an AAB could "find themselves in clearing" looking for a place.
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He steadily worked toward his goal of reforming the student financial system and played a valuable role in nearly every major federal student-aid program in our nation's history, from Pell Grants in 1972 to the Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grants for high-achieving low-income students in 2006.
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