There are national competitions for academic high school students, whether spelling bees, math Olympics, and national debate championships.
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So far, Cisco has hired only one of the academy students: part-time maintenance technician Felicia Voss, 18, who graduated last spring from San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School.
They find a a positive effect on test scores, compulsary school grades, choosing an academic high-school track, high-school grades, probability of attending college, and average education by age 24.
Ingrid Fey, a social-studies teacher at the Academic Leadership Community High School in South Los Angeles, said the change is an academic boon for her students.
The program provides academic coaches to high school football players in economically disadvantaged communities.
Correction 27 February 2013: This story has been amended to clarify that Luigi Frati's wife held other academic posts between being a high school teacher and a professor at La Sapienza University in Rome.
Today, he lives with his male partner and their child, now 10 and the academic high-flyer of his local school.
The online internship database, Internships.com, conducted a survey which revealed that employers prefer internship candidates with relevant experience, over a candidate with a high academic performance at an elite school.
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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.
Howard Brim takes public transportation east from the city's predominantly African-American West End to a suburban high school that has an equally strong academic and athletic program.
We're not talking about academic excellence here, just basic graduation and completion of high school.
High school students in particular are facing greater academic pressure and college competition than ever before, and all those AP classes and extracurricular activities can eat into sleep time.
The state of Indiana has declared it will take over three Indianapolis high schools and one middle school that have been on academic probation for the last six years.
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Mrs Jacobs, for all her academic-looking fringe and glasses, had no credentials save her high-school diploma, a vivid way of writing and a passion that twice got her arrested, once for incitement to riot, as she fought her victorious campaign to keep the Lower Midtown Expressway at bay.
As chronicled earlier this year, data supports that Notre Dame clearly holds its student-athletes to higher academic standards than what is true at other schools which limits the pool of talented high school players they will attract.
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Recent cheating scandals, at Harvard University and elite Manhattan public high school Stuyvesant, have brought new attention to the increasingly grey area of academic integrity.
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More than three million high-school students are expected to graduate each year until the 2021-2022 academic year, according to the Department of Education, and many of them are expected to pursue higher education.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
At the premier academic contest the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, I found through interviews that 70 percent of the high school student finalists in the competition were the children of immigrants.
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The Court failed to recognize the religious freedom of these Roman Catholic and Christian students who want to participate in Kentucky high school sports without losing their badly needed tuition that was provided to them based on their academic abilities.
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Laura Baker, whose granddaughter attends high school in Newark and who was at the meeting Friday evening, said she wanted to see an academic-based plan from Ms. Anderson, rather than an organizational one.
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