Sentences with phrase «less rigorous academic»

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How is it that rigorous, academic «discipline and commitment» leads a devout chappie into feeling less close to God?

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

Compared to Josiah Quincy Upper School, the rigorous pilot school he attended, he finds the academic classes here less challenging.

Non-college enrollees took fewer academic courses — and less rigorous courses — than their peers.

In the Ohio schools I have been visiting (for my Needles in a Haystack report, due out in the fall) it is rigorous and consistent attention to academic discipline that helps ensure a culture of respect where behavioral discipline is less necessary.

Through the Race to the Top initiative, for example, the Obama administration succeeded in incentivizing states: Even with relatively small pots of money — just $ 4 billion, or less than 2 percent of federal education spending — the administration encouraged states to prioritize innovative teacher and principal reforms and develop rigorous academic standards.22 Thirty - four states modified their policies in response to the federal initiative, even though only 19 states received federal funding to do so.23

School districts in SCC should develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate a rigorous and intensive plan for ensuring that all EL students achieve English Language fluency within two years or less while participating in a 12 - month intensive program with continuous access to grade level academic content.

Programs such as Linked Learning, which according to its website, «integrates rigorous academics that meet college - ready standards with sequenced, high - quality career - technical education, work - based learning, and supports to help students stay on track,» have seen positive outcomes for students.51 A seven - year longitudinal study comparing students who participated in Linked Learning to those who did not showed that the program completers were less likely to drop out and more likely to graduate from high school.