The longer these students stay in special language programs, the further they fall behind in other subjects.
They fall behind by an average of over two months in their reading.
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As Americans stay unemployed for long stretches, they fall behind on card payments, get written off and have no access to new credit.
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"Projects run over budget, they fall behind schedule, and they fail to deliver their promised functionality, " said Jeffrey Zients, the White House's chief performance officer.
However, by the time they reach middle school, only 32% are at or above a proficient level in math, according to the 2007 Nation's Report Card by National Assessment of Educational Progress, and they fall behind internationally.
And, even when women keep pace with promotions, they still fall behind in pay.
In truth, the other thing pushing parents to send kids to preschool is the cold reality that kindergarten has become the new first grade, with parents pushing academic learning earlier with the fear that their kids will fall behind if they don't meet major milestones like reading well before what is considered normal.
Those who do, like Diego, often fall behind their classmates because they have been raised in an environment where their parents are uneducated and where the need for money now outweighs the need for education - or because after hours of work, they are simply too tired to learn.
They were also concerned that Europe should not fall behind in research on chronic human ailments such as Alzheimer's.
Those firms with ailing balance sheets will fall farther and farther behind until they are seized by the feds or sell to a stronger firm at a discounted price.
As people defer or fall behind on their payments, the total amount they owe grows as interest accrues.
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The children of America are not those kids, they are our kids, and we will not let them fall behind in a 21st century economy.
That means we have to get behind stable families, not shrug our shoulders when they fall apart.
You fall too far behind the guys like Pettitte, the good pitchers, they don't make enough mistakes where you can get back at them.
While LSU and Alabama ended up ranked number one and two respectively in the final 2011 BCS poll, in the APR Rankings of BCS teams, they would fall back to four (966) and five (963) respectively, behind Clemson (977), Stanford (977), and Wisconsin (967).
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They say capital flight and depressed demand, rather than good management, lie behind the fall in inflation (which is still forecast at 15-17% this year).
They wonder if he'll identify at all with being Latino, or just fall in line behind Sen.
While the technologies behind these machines are groundbreaking--lab workers used to screen samples manually--they fall short in a few ways.
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