Britain, for example, tried for two decades to channel many of the less academic school-leavers into polytechnics that had been set up to provide degrees equal in quality to those offered by the universities, but with a more technical and vocational bent.
There are national competitions for academic high school students, whether spelling bees, math Olympics, and national debate championships.
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But a spokesperson said it was vital to get the basics right in primary schools and to make the curriculum relevant to older, non-academic secondary school pupils.
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.
Is this school as good of an academic fit as another school that also happens to have big-time athletics?
The full rigour of externally-marked exams would be reserved for the advanced level - which would become the dominant, end-of-school academic qualification.
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The term viral marketing is said to have been first coined by Jeffrey Rayport, a Harvard Business School academic, in a 1996 article for the magazine Fast Company.
As Das Narayandas, a Harvard Business School academic, points out, the bit of the company that collects information when the customer buys is not usually the bit that uses it for selling.
This achievement gap has not been closed by the time youngsters are ready to leave secondary schools - with August-born teenagers 20% more likely to be in vocational rather than academic study after school.
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.
Even for fundraising, I think an academic has some advantages, because most donors are connected to the school's academic mission.
The program provides academic coaches to high school football players in economically disadvantaged communities.
In the next academic year, the school will begin overhauling its core courses.
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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)".
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.
He was then an academic at Harvard Business School for some 30 years and started teaching marketing there at a time when, legend has it, he had never previously read a book on the subject.
David Maister, a leading adviser to professional-service firms and a former academic at Harvard Business School, says that there is a yawning gap between what the big firms are offering and what their corporate clients want.
Experiments by Michael Morris, an academic at Stanford Business School, and a group of colleagues have now demonstrated what many people instinctively suspect: negotiations are more likely to go well if they are conducted, at least in part, face to face, rather than between strangers armed with keyboards and screens.
When Geovani was in high school, the principal wanted to honor his academic achievement by displaying his photo in school hallways.
In Orleans Parish, academic performance scores in the school district have risen nearly 25 percent.
It also weights a school's academic research, which is hard on those with no doctoral programme.
The aim is true: to give these girls 10 years of quality school education and academic support.
Like Kaye Voyce's somber school uniforms and academic robes, Andrew Lieberman's simple, handsome set implied the severity and loneliness of the life of the mind.
He also serves on the school's Academic Oversight Committee for Athletics.
Kubert died Sunday of multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow, said Mike Chen, the academic director of the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey.
He served as Director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council (1999-2003) and was the academic director of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership from 2008-11.
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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