And it has done it while maintaining high academic standards without major scandal.
The new academy would have a strong emphasis on leadership, high academic achievement and an all-round education, Dr Seldon said.
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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As a university professor and former Faculty Athlete Representative for my university, I respect the University of Notre Dame for their adherence to high academic standards in a world where so many programs have bent, broken, or obliterated NCAA rules.
The Council of Great City Schools, a research and policy group that represents large districts, commissioned a study that found districts making the most progress had stable leadership, high academic goals for students, quality professional development for teachers and data analysis that helped alter teaching.
There are national competitions for academic high school students, whether spelling bees, math Olympics, and national debate championships.
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Today, he lives with his male partner and their child, now 10 and the academic high-flyer of his local school.
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.
It has been selling products to high profile industrial and academic clients in markets across the world.
The program provides academic coaches to high school football players in economically disadvantaged communities.
"High standards of behaviour and very high aspirations in terms of academic achievement are at the heart of what we're about, and having an aspirational building supports that drive, " he said.
In a conference call with reporters, system president Joe DiPietro and Katie High, vice president for academic affairs and student success, indicated students could send faculty e-mails and those on-campus could approach faculty with questions.
But on Abilene, information travels through a few hundred extremely large rivers in the form of high-bandwidth applications and complex academic systems.
Although he was a widely respected academic, with a high Q-index, great SciDigg scores, three successful tenure renewals, and excellent student references, he knew that the game was changing.
It probably has more to do with the academic drive of college basketball players (most of whom think they will be making their living playing their sport professionally here or abroad) versus college football players (most of whom know they will not), and institutional failures to educate big name athletes (who colleges fear will bolt if academic standards are too high).
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These solutions include adult male mentoring and rigorous academic sports, such as high-speed policy debate and extemporaneous speaking.
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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.
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.
U.S. high schools have traditionally offered three types of academic programs: college preparatory, general, and vocational.
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.
He steadily worked toward his goal of reforming the student financial system and played a valuable role in nearly every major federal student-aid program in our nation's history, from Pell Grants in 1972 to the Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grants for high-achieving low-income students in 2006.
Trevor is an award-winning academic who has worked many years at high levels on Wall Street.
When Geovani was in high school, the principal wanted to honor his academic achievement by displaying his photo in school hallways.
Every single one of the assertions he claims to be untrue is, in reality, backed up by high quality evidence, from systematic reviews of the academic literature.
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Alison Johnston is the CEO and cofounder of InstaEDU, an online tutoring company that makes it possible for student to get high-quality, one-on-one academic support the moment they need it.
Their paper, which has not been submitted for publication in any academic journal, says that states with high abortion rates in the 1970s had bigger drops in crime in the 1990s.
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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The stakes are too high for support staff to just learn a cookbook of academic and behavioral interventions that may address the presenting problem but may not provide the needed solution.
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