Not exact matches
Yet
despite the upheaval in the education system from the 1960s onwards some schools have managed to maintain high
academic levels of excellence.
We have shown that,
despite their limitations, aggregate measures
of non-cognitive skills based on student self - reports provide useful information about students» development, as both
levels and year - to - year changes in students» self - ratings are associated with changes in related
academic and behavioral outcomes.
KKJ: We are proud that our graduation rate
of 80 percent is significantly higher than New York City's overall rate
of 73 percent,
despite our students coming into our schools with lower
levels of academic proficiency and higher
levels of academic need.
Despite progress across income
levels, though, achievement gaps remained intact and about 40 to 50 percent
of economically advantaged U.S. students still were not proficient in basic
academic skills by 2015.
While states with disparate
academic approaches have made some strides over the past few years — notably Florida and California — national averages have varied only slightly,
despite billions
of dollars invested to improve performance at the national, state, and local
levels.
Alone, these tests place up to one - third
of students into remedial education,
despite the fact that these students could actually pass a college -
level course with at least a B. Furthermore, they solely measure
academic knowledge, not attributes such as ambition, persistence, and willingness to connect and seek help, which are critical to succeeding in college, regardless
of academic acumen.
Countries with low
levels of selection, such as England and Canada, have similar
levels of pupils who attain strong
academic results
despite their socio - economic disadvantage, as countries with highly selective systems such as Germany, according to the data.