"In short, the budget should go further to ensure that children's achievement at school should reflect their ability not their background, " she said.
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The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, housed within the Department of Education, will work with the Executive Office of the President and Cabinet agencies to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African American student achievement in school and college, and to develop a national network of individuals, organizations, and communities that will share and implement these practices.
There is also increasing evidence that interventions can produce middle-to longer-run effects on school achievement, special education placement, grade retention, disruptive behavior and delinquency and high school graduation.
As a result of poor school achievement, African-Caribbean students are under-represented in scientific careers.
But it has given a warning that the Intermediate GNVQ makes "an important contribution" towards government targets for school achievement.
In his letter, Mr Moore calls for the immediate suspension of school performance tables, saying a "snapshot of school achievement" was damaging.
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)".
Obesity and hunger affect school achievement and health care in fairly obvious ways, Vilsack said, while speaking to a group at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center.
Though reaching a BCS Bowl Game is certainly a great achievement for any school, the only game that really matters in the current climate of college bowl games is the final game.
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Chancellor Klein and I also share the belief that an outstanding principal, given the support he or she needs, is indispensable to driving the remarkable gains we need in student achievement in a school.
When Geovani was in high school, the principal wanted to honor his academic achievement by displaying his photo in school hallways.
Laura Clancy, chief of staff at charter-school nonprofit Achievement First, has seen her share of business refugees looking for what they think will be a soft landing or a hero's welcome doing philanthropic work.
As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, both Princeton and Harvard University researchers have concluded that students in the Milwaukee choice program have made achievement gains over their public school counterparts.
Under-achievement is seen at primary school, where national tests in maths and English show both groups are less likely than others to reach the expected level, and continues up to GCSE level and beyond.
The achievement gaps we see in elementary school and beyond begin before children enter kindergarten--the quality of child care and educational settings in the years preceding matter.
Six talented students guarantee a focus for serious achievement from which the rest of the school undoubtedly benefits.
As a result, school enrolment, retention and achievement rates are particularly low in rural areas and, more specifically, among indigenous people.
As a result, school attendance, retention and achievement rates as well as the quality of education in Cambodia, particularly in rural areas, continues to be low.
The staff at this school is struggling to boost achievement.
Just last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbon -- as a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of achievement.
One of the proudest occasions of my life was facilitating and witnessing the birth of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School in 1998, where the achievement gap between black and white students has virtually been eliminated.
Now aged 54 and married with a child, he said he did not connect his experiences at school with years of under-achievement at work, a failed marriage and binge-drinking until he had therapy after a breakdown in April 2005.
Mr. MIKE CASSERLY (The Council Of Great City School): Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a school system and a city whose student achievement was nationally renowned as being extremely low.
Curriculums in every country or school system have expectations for levels of achievement, but the Massachusetts system is characterised by a particular focus on lists of specific pieces of information.
Every student performance indicator has improved he says and over the last two years the state has ranked second in the country for achievement on college-level courses taken in high school.
Schools minister Jim Knight said that the gap in achievement between 11-year-olds on free school meals and those who were not had narrowed by three percentage points in the last four years.
B-School students are usually very analytical and achievement-oriented.
But she downplayed the achievement of having been head girl, an appointment by school authorities.
It is given to pupils who are eligible for free school meals with the aim of closing the achievement gap between rich and poor.
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