Then again, it is the ministry whose three objectives «focus on
establishing high levels of student achievement; reducing the gaps in student achievement; and ensuring high levels of public confidence in public education» [vi].
Not exact matches
Their enthusiasm and consistent benchmark
of excellence has resulted in countless
student - athletes reaching the
highest level of individual athletic
achievement, while
establishing a critical foundation for personal life - long success through sport.
Under current law, a state is required to
establish long - term goals based on the requirement that all
students attain a proficient or
higher level of achievement within a specified timeframe.
Students will develop critical thinking skills, cultivate
high levels of self - motivation for personal and professional
achievement, and recognize they can affect change in a global society through their rigorous curriculum and cultivated relationships with many
established partners.
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.
Fairfax County School Board Policy 3355
established TJHSST as «a
high school for science and technology where
students with exceptional quantitative skills and interest in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics, can pursue
higher levels of academic
achievement in those subjects in preparation for the pursuit
of a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics focused profession».
Schools with
higher levels of student achievement are more likely than others to have principals who
establish high expectations for
students and teachers and are attentive to multiple measures
of student success.
While progress to close racial
achievement gaps has stagnated and income
achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to
establish conditions that enable
students — primarily poor
students of color — to achieve at
levels far
higher than their social background predicts.