In K-12 education, the No Child Left Behind Law has produced important benefits for students by holding schools accountable for the academic achievement of all children.
Jacob (2003) found that moving due to the demolition of public housing buildings had no impact on the academic achievement of younger children on a variety of outcome measures, including test scores, grades and retention.
The Black Star Project was founded in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) organization designed to eliminate the racial academic achievement gap among Black, Latino, White, and Asian students.
Mr Kealey said raising the bar of academic achievement for entry level officers should be considered, "to improve the status of police".
Ellen Winner, a psychologist at Boston College who has been studying the relationship between exposure to the arts and subsequent academic achievement, believes not.
Walton's research has had a particularly dramatic effect on students' achievement, especially for minority students and women in overwhelmingly male-dominated majors, who may suffer from the dreaded minority achievement gap: the disparity in academic performance that often persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.
Because other states look to Massachusetts where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.
As in virtually every other country, academic achievement in the United States correlates closely with socioeconomic status.
We are hopeful the KHSAA will review the ruling and stop penalizing academic achievement and their continual acrimony against all parochial schools.
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The scholarship criteria expands beyond academic achievement in that they look for ambition and drive, determination to reach goals, respect for self, family and community and the ability to succeed in college.
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For example, the Initiatives to Maximize Positive academic Achievement and Cultural Thriving (IMPACT) Program focusing on AAPI students at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, has been able to close gaps in academic achievement among AAPI students by focusing on subgroups that are historically underrepresented in higher education.
This kind of collaboration between Tribes and States marks a new era in working together to meet the unique educational and cultural needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students, to improve their academic achievement, and ultimately to better the future of these Tribal students and their communities.
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Nevertheless, the U.S. was often near the top of the class in global tests of academic achievement.
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When Geovani was in high school, the principal wanted to honor his academic achievement by displaying his photo in school hallways.
"High standards of behaviour and very high aspirations in terms of academic achievement are at the heart of what we're about, and having an aspirational building supports that drive, " he said.
Academic achievement can never be separated from academic integrity, which is why the Georgia Federation of Teachers was the first whistle-blower to expose Atlanta testing irregularities.
The administration says the program has reduced juvenile crime and improved academic achievement.
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Massachusetts ranks its schools from Level One, the highest, to Level Five based on academic achievement, graduation and dropout rates.
Students are accepted into the institution based on five criteria: Extraordinary academic achievement, leadership potential, entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to public service and a mandatory passion for Africa.
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Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools.
Academic, not athletic, achievement is the most reliable path to success in life.
Kids of easygoing parents did the second-best after the kids of supportive parents when it came to academic achievement and emotional well-being.
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Virtually all measures of academic achievement have shown substantial differences in the performance of African-American and white students in the United States, and these performance differentials have been a source of constant analysis and discussion.
California's schools rank 47th in academic achievement despite per-pupil spending in the top third of the nation.
"Also, in UConn's first waiver denial, NCAA staff noted the men's basketball team's overall lack of academic achievement and minimal academic progress over several years, " Christianson said by e-mail to CNN.
Similarly, preliminary evaluations of the Edison Project, a private firm which manages 12 local schools, demonstrate that students have made significant academic gains on student achievement tests in three of the four Edison schools that opened in 1995.
Critics of standards-based reform argue that, in seeking to raise student achievement in core academic subjects as measured by the new assessments, teachers and school administrators have narrowed the curriculum at the expense of artistic, affective, and other "non-core" subjects.
The new academy would have a strong emphasis on leadership, high academic achievement and an all-round education, Dr Seldon said.
The NIAO report also found a "strong correlation between between low levels of academic achievement and free school meal entitlement (an indicator of social deprivation)".
Eric Schwarz from Citizen Schools, Lucy Friedman from TASC, Dan Cardinali from Communities In Schools, and Lester Strong from Experience Corps discussed the way that national and community service brings much needed talent and leadership to schools, while boosting academic achievement.
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