Sentences with phrase «nothing about the academic achievement»

Second: one - time «snapshot» data of a single cohort of kids, which is all that NAEP can supply the first time around, tell you nothing about the academic achievement of children before they entered their charter schools — and just about everyone knows that a big fraction of the youngsters enrolling in charters were already behind the education eight - ball as a result of dismal performance in previous schools.

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But, Murray says, «to everyone's shock, the Coleman Report... found that the quality of schools explains almost nothing about differences in academic achievement....

Further, it is entirely clear that increasing numbers of poor children, lacking adequate nutrition, housing and health care, often with overworked parent (s), are a major reason for any lack of academic achievement — but the Bush approach will do nothing about these.