Sentences with phrase «ambitious academic reform»

Implemented in 2003 as part of an ambitious academic reform effort in Division I, the Academic Progress Rate (APR) holds institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student - athletes through a team - based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student - athlete for each academic term.

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Introduced as an ambitious educational reform at the end of the last decade to make sure that, across the U.S., students graduating from the K - 12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting.

A new set of academic standards developed to replace states» individually designed learning goals, the Common Core math standards are like earlier math reforms, only further refined and more ambitious.