It also directly coincides with growing national concern over the academic performance of America's school children as measured under respected, international benchmarks like the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) «Programme for International Student Assessment» (PISA) exam. (ctbaonline.org)
Excerpt from Executive Summary: The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program was established in response to growing national concerns about students too often lost and alienated in large, impersonal high schools, as well as concerns about school safety and low levels of achievement and graduation for many students. (smallschoolscoalition.com)
The quiet cut - off of funding for a USGS Study on the health impacts of mountaintop removal and continued delayed in rule - making processes, indicate that the administration is ignoring the issue, despite new studies linking mountaintop removal to increased rates of cancer and growing national concerns over climate change and water shortages. (earthjustice.org)