high-achievers

He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: Book summary 2010

Wealth, Education Play Role in Producing Super Siblings It's unclear why some families produce multiple high-achievers.

Power Couple: Meet the Sister CEOs Joann S. Lublin 2011

Parents of high-achievers are getting the message: Stop the pressure.

Tom Matlack: How Important Are Your Child's SAT Scores? Tom Matlack 2011

Parents of high-achievers are getting the message: Stop the pressure.

Tom Matlack: How Important Are Your Child's SAT Scores? Tom Matlack 2011

Parents of high-achievers are getting the message: Stop the pressure.

Tom Matlack: How Important Are Your Child's SAT Scores? Tom Matlack 2011

Many of their students are poor and/or recent immigrants, and far more in need of individualized instruction than the high-achievers enrolled at Columbia University.

7 Class size myths -- and the truth Valerie Strauss 2010

I believe that the future emphasis in any effective school reform movement should be to improve the living conditions of the low-achieving students in order to give them the opportunity to become high-achievers.

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Thoughts at the End of the Year Joel Shatzky 2011

I believe that the future emphasis in any effective school reform movement should be to improve the living conditions of the low-achieving students in order to give them the opportunity to become high-achievers.

Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Thoughts at the End of the Year Joel Shatzky 2011

Actual high-achieving human beings seem to be motivated mostly by the emotional rewards of the achievements themselves, and by their own perceived ranking vis-a-vis other high-achievers, and hardly at all by marginal-utility calculations.

Matthew Yglesias » The Case for More Tax Brackets 2009

Parents of high-achievers are getting the message: Stop the pressure.

Tom Matlack: How Important Are Your Child's SAT Scores? Tom Matlack 2011