For many, academic failure does not come from an unwillingness to work hard.

An academic failure, he began making art on his own while taking odd jobs.

The organization aids children in public schools who are facing academic failure.

Authorities attributed his academic failure to a lack of parental care.

Two-thirds will risk academic failure by working at paying jobs 25 hours a week.

Until now, the closest Chicago has come to such a break was the 2002 closing of three elementary schools for academic failure.

More often than not, his clinical experience has shown, such people blame themselves for their social, academic and professional failures.

They are more likely than average to experience academic failure and to develop social and emotional issues.

By contrast, Smith was an example of academic failure.

After graduating, he went to study in Russia, but was expelled a few years later for academic failure.