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Author:

Rimm, Sylvia B., 1935-

Title:

Why bright kids get poor grades : and what you can do about it / Sylvia Rimm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Crown Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

xxii, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Underachievers--United States.
Academic achievement--United States.
Personality and academic achievement.

Other Authors:

Rimm, Sylvia B., 1935- Underachievement syndrome.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Underachievement syndrome. c1986 (1988 printing). Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-416) and index.

Contents:

How to get the most out of this book -- Why bright kids get poor grades -- What is underachievement? -- Early risks -- Parents as role models -- Dependency and dominance -- School causes of underachievement -- And what you can do about it -- Parenting towards achievement -- How you can reverse underachievement syndrome using the trifocal model -- Next four steps: communication, expectation, identification, and correction of deficiencies -- What you can do for dependent children -- What you can do as parents -- What you can do as a teacher -- What you can do for dominant conforming underachievers -- What you can do as parents -- What you can do as a teacher -- What you can do about dominant nonconforming children -- What parents can do for dominant nonconformers -- What you can do as a teacher.

ISBN:

9780517886878 (pbk.)
0517886871 (pbk.)
9780517700624
051770062X

LCCN:

94041143

Locations:

NJPD993 -- Clarion Public Library (Clarion)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

RNPC397 -- Mary J. Barnett Memorial Library (Guthrie Center)

FVPB284 -- Hopkinton Public Library (Hopkinton)

HOPC845 -- Hull Public Library (Hull)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)