Sentences with phrase «on academic prowess»

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When the measure, known as Proposition 42, was approved on a second ballot (after having been voted down only a day earlier), it touched off a fire storm of criticism, mostly from coaches who stand to lose the services of youngsters whose academic prowess has not kept pace with their athletic skills.

«Technical excellence» should be placed on a par with «academic prowess» in Britain's rebalanced economy, David Cameron has said.

Because nobody ever taught them to read properly, they naturally fare poorly on gauges of academic success that rely on their reading prowess.

A southern California high school that prided itself on its tough requirements and the academic prowess of its students has acknowledged that hundreds of grades were altered in violation of state regulations.

Taleb points out: «Today academics in abstract disciplines depend on one another's opinion, without external checks, with the severe occasional pathological result of turning their pursuits into insular prowess - showing contests.