Why Do Bright Children Underachieve?.

Rimm, Sylvia B.

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ERIC Number: EJ363535

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1987

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ISSN: ISSN-0892-9580

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Why Do Bright Children Underachieve?

Rimm, Sylvia B.

Gifted Child Today (GCT), v10 n6 p30-36 Nov-Dec 1987

The stresses of underachieving gifted children and the reasons for those stresses are examined. These stresses include pressure to be brilliant, creative, popular, and good. Recommendations for dealing with underachievement syndrome are provided, and brief case studies of underachieving gifted children are cited. (JDD)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Therapy, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Intervention, Stress Management, Stress Variables, Underachievement

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Parents; Practitioners

Language: English

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