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.

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Districts everywhere are under pressure to raise academic test scores, and to do so with ever-shrinking budgets.

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A-level standards that culminated in last summer's marking scandal and to the current agonising over the funding of universities, whose academic standards are falling apart under the pressure to teach increasing numbers of students with little more money.

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Spyros Economides, an academic at the London School of Economics, says that no pressure has been put on Greece to let Macedonia begin EU accession talks, and he does not expect any now.

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Research shows that they are much more likely to drop out of college due to personal pressure from family responsibilities, the inability to tackle the academic challenges of college because of the work hours required to keep them there, and the ongoing financial challenges of their families.

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