Sentences with phrase «about high academic results»

The school culture is clear, it's not about high academic results but nurturing the child to develop their good character and social skills.

Not exact matches

The then - billion - dollar company was flying high — until people became nervous about some of its academic results and operations — and the storm shifted to douse its growth.

The recognition award is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education (USED) effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal of increasing energy independence and economic security.

The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.

Millburn Superintendent James Crisfield said he was initially concerned about the high school showing in the 68th percentile for «academic achievement,» until he saw that the mark was based only on the state's High School Proficiency Assessment and biology test resuhigh school showing in the 68th percentile for «academic achievement,» until he saw that the mark was based only on the state's High School Proficiency Assessment and biology test resuHigh School Proficiency Assessment and biology test results.

«This... resulted in districts throughout Illinois holding high school students to different academic content and achievement standards in reading / language arts and mathematics... based solely on their zip code, and afforded inconsistent information to parents and the public about student achievement among districts in Illinois.»

In the eight studies that measured academic results an average of 3.75 years later, participants in social - emotional programs performed about 13 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group, they found.