Under it, remainingstudentsfromTexasandelsewhere are consideredunder standards that take into account academicachievementandotherfactors, including race and ethnicity.
Too often, strategies that adults use to boost student achievement such as raising academicstandards and giving high-stakes standardized exams do not address the real reasons why students are disengaged.
"High standards of behaviour and very high aspirations in terms of academicachievement are at the heart of what we're about, and having an aspirational building supports that drive, " he said.
Critics of standards-based reform argue that, in seeking to raise student achievement in core academic subjects as measured by the new assessments, teachers and school administrators have narrowed the curriculum at the expense of artistic, affective, and other "non-core" subjects.