Sentences with phrase «school over the preceding decade»

Not exact matches

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

(In other words, the Colorado State Board of Education had shut down only one public school for poor performance over the preceding two decades.)

As a series of studies began to emerge in 2012, it became clear that what Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein had done in New York City over the preceding decade was real.

Over the preceding decade before 2009/10, general school items and stationery expenditure averaged a growth of 2.4 per cent each year.