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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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.
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.
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.
More than three million high-school students are expected to graduate each year until the 2021-2022 academic year, according to the Department of Education, and many of them are expected to pursue higher education.
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.
Is this school as good of an academic fit as another school that also happens to have big-time athletics?
Today, he lives with his male partner and their child, now 10 and the academic high-flyer of his local 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.
She said the move addresses the "short-term" needs of the school for the rest of the academic year.
Children involved in the virtual school - known as Notschool - have gone on to get much higher academic qualifications than they had been expected to, said Professor Heppell.
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.
Vallas put 109 poorly performing schools on academic probation at the start of the 1996-97 school year.
The questions set out in Parent View are intended to give an evaluation of the academic progress and well-being of pupils at the school.
For those from poor families, whose parents had few academic achievements, who got into private school via the assisted-places scheme, the benefits were especially marked.
Apparently this is scaring off at least some potential applicants: the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test declined by 9.6% during the 2010-2011 academic year, to 155, 050, from 171, 500 in the previous year, according to the Law School Admission Council.
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.
They will be calling upon the Treasury to cancel the seminar it is co-sponsoring that afternoon with the country's most prominent academic boosters of Shariah-Compliant Finance: Harvard University Law School's Islamic Finance Project.
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Idaho has four people two full-time dedicated to academic support. (The school didn't return a request for comment.) No. 1-ranked LSU, on the other hand, has a palatial, wood-paneled academic center for athletes and a support staff of 26.
Some grammar school pupils were reluctant to have joint classes with non-grammar schools because they felt academic abilities would be lower.
In the second phase, UNESCO reviewed and printed 9 million copies of primary and secondary school textbooks, which benefited 6 million students throughout Iraq for the academic year 2005-2006.
These funds should be used to encourage school districts to employ research-based strategies for intervening early with slow learners, raising academic standards and, most important, improving learning conditions in underperforming schools.
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Ms Tyson agrees: a business-school dean, she reckons, needs to be more nimble and responsive than other academic bigwigs.
"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.
At the Gottlieb Bienert middle school in Plauen, a suburb of Dresden, head teacher Gert Gorski explains that the higher up the school pupils proceed, the more they follow different paths, though they mingle for non-academic subjects.
Another upside to owning property in a college town--even for those home owners who are not affiliated with the nearby college or university--is that the local school districts may have a diverse student population because of the academic community.
The Catholic-school closures are similar to those undertaken in suburban towns wrestling with under-enrollment but very different from school closures conducted by New York City for poor academic performance.
Mrs Jacobs, for all her academic-looking fringe and glasses, had no credentials save her high-school diploma, a vivid way of writing and a passion that twice got her arrested, once for incitement to riot, as she fought her victorious campaign to keep the Lower Midtown Expressway at bay.
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.
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