The administration seeks to persuade schools to advance students on academic performance and not on age.
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Vallas put 109 poorly performing schools on academic probation at the start of the 1996-97 school year.
The event will include plenary sessions, parallel workshops, roundtable discussions on academic exchange and visits to media organisations in London.
Massachusetts ranks its schools from Level One, the highest, to Level Five based on academic achievement, graduation and dropout rates.
Much of the research money governments disburse is allocated on academic merit, determined by peer review, not by bureaucratic fiat.
Unicef suggests this "may be the result of an emphasis on academic qualifications combined with a diverse system of vocational qualifications".
Mr Greenspan is famously sceptical of relying too much on academic models.
Johansson relies heavily on anecdotes to demonstrate his points, in the style of Malcolm Gladwell, but without the reliance on academic studies.
As universities select applicants on academic merit, less well-qualified Scottish students might be squeezed out and have to go to fee-charging English universities.
All of this is documented in a report issued this past May by the UC Davis faculty Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (CAFR).
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American Fire Sprinkler Association Scholarship Program: This scholarship is not based on academic success or financial need and the entry can be done quietly at home.
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In response to the allegations, a Harvard committee on academic integrity led by Harris will present recommendations on how to enforce faculty-wide expectations of academic honesty.
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The impact of the Shirelands Learning Gateway on academic performance has been so positive that school officials are quickly expanding it to reach several hundred additional schools.
The Connolly team say their recommendations on academic selection shouldn't put the parties off implementing their other suggestions, which would create more incentives for schools to work together.
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Hutching is particularly interested in research looking at the impact of inactivity on academic performance, and is trying to pass legislation to require more physical activity in Utah schools.
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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There is some evidence that parents of children at grade 6, 7 and 8 who are doing poorly on academic grades lose the financial support of parents and drop out of school.
In this series, I tell stories of successful business owners who did not complete college, and focused their education on street-smarts in the real world, rather than on academic theory in classrooms.
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"We hear about cheating happening more and more, at younger ages, " especially as younger children bring more mobile devices to school, says Dr. Anderman, who is co-editor of a reference book on academic cheating.
"Thus, while hangover is a common phenomenon among college drinkers, for most of them it occurs rarely enough that it is unlikely to have a major deleterious impact on academic performance, " Dr Slutske said.
Jacob (2003) found that moving due to the demolition of public housing buildings had no impact on the academic achievement of younger children on a variety of outcome measures, including test scores, grades and retention.
On the academic side, the ISTC-EC co-principal investigator is CMU Associate Professor Priya Narasimhan.
Not just on their physical and emotional health, but on their academic success as well.
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So far, no alternative has been found and no decision taken on whether academic selection should remain.
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Teachers still remember Chappell competing on the academic decathlon team, and Sare raising pigs for his agriculture class.
Experiments are going on in academic institutions, firms such as IBM and even the American space agency Nasa.
Also, I had my eye on some academic awards and figured this cause would burnish my (suspect) reputation as a serious thinker.
Antitrust violations in such circumstances are often built on novel academic theories and speculation about possible ill effects of behavior that is also consistent with pursuit of innovation and efforts to capitalize on innovative ideas.
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"Should someone come up with the idea that a member of my office may have collaborated on the academic preparation of my dissertation, I would have to answer - it's simply not true, " said Mr Guttenberg.
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