Junior Achievement has gotten into the classroom as well, with free, year-round programs at various elementary schools across the country.
It is Mr Blustein's considerable achievement to have fashioned them into such a page-turner.
Here is the slightly un-British attitude toward status and achievement that has gotten him into trouble in his native land.
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Not surprisingly, both students and parents are willing to sacrifice academic achievement and growth to get into a good college.
In fact, it is understood in high school that recruited athletes of even modest scholastic achievement regularly do better getting into select schools than their peers with much higher academic credentials.
Their achievement was to turn American Survey into a section of interest not just to British readers but also to Americans.
Orwell's achievement was to turn political writing into an art form.
The achievement comes as the two companies enter into a new Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partnership.
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However British Conservative Malcolm Harbour, who chairs the Internal Market Committee, welcomed the act and said its "biggest achievement" could be getting more people into work and creating more small businesses.
Mr Santorum's achievement has been to forge the two groups into a powerful conservative-populist coalition.
His achievement is discussed as Gypsy Moth IV sailed into port as the sun sets on Plymouth Sound.
Mr Hastings's achievement in organising this unwieldy mass of material into a narrative that sweeps confidently over every contested corner of the globe is impressive.
This was to allow them to qualify for the first intake into the single currency, an achievement many pundits considered impossible given the country's past extravagances.
Four centuries after the Golden Age, a period of prosperity and artistic achievement that transformed Amsterdam from a fishing village into a wealthy hub of international trade, this delightful city is in the middle of a new renaissance.
Her achievement is to transfer the everyday dramas of schoolchildren into an abundantly imagined parallel universe.
He is also attempting another unprecedented achievement: Translating success in New York City politics into national platform.
They won an American Lifetime Achievement Award, a Brit Award and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
It won't win any awards from design aesthetes either: function was prioritized over form with its retro stylings -- but the real achievement here has been to cram that much power into this tiny box.
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Nothing else comes close to the pride I feel in their achievement and the satisfaction I get in watching them grow into strong, confident young women.
Unlike his predecessors, he is effective on television, pounding home the need to measure Germany against other countries rather than the comfortable standards of the past (introducing das Benchmarking into the German language may be an enduring achievement).
They walked into the clubhouse and found baseball caps commemorating their achievement.
Ultimately it will be those visions, applications, the judging of the applications, and, most importantly, the execution of the winning visions by the school districts themselves that have the potential to set the country on a path toward transforming the education system into a student-centric one and bolstering the achievement of every child.
Actually, Europe's drifting off into its own self-contained world is an extraordinary achievement of the U.S.' post-World War II diplomacy.
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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Ray Kroc's true achievement over all those years was to knit his suppliers, employees and franchisees into the world's most efficient ecosystem for feeding people.
If Democrats are able to achieve national health care reform, they will go into the 2010 and 2012 election with a major, concrete political achievement.
Founder Ray Kroc's true achievement over all those years was to knit his suppliers, employees and franchisees into the world's most efficient ecosystem for feeding people.
Last Wednesday Google announced Instant search, an impressive technical achievement that shows probable search results in real time--as you type letters into the search box.
The fact is, packing that kind of processing down into a tablet that runs on batteries, is one more astonishing technical achievement on the part of Apple.
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