The countervailing pressures against increasing the physical education requirements are strong and widespread, and in plain view at Yorktown High, in Arlington, Virginia, a school that prides itself on
producing high achievers.
Not exact matches
One word that makes us happy: Progress [21:21] We grow because that helps us give more — share it with someone you love, it magnifies it [22:04] More excited about feeding one billion people than any material thing, so much more meaning when it's not just about you [22:19] The challenge is our brain: it's looking for what's wrong, because that helps you survive [22:30] Peak state =
high energy, feel extraordinary,
producing results is easy [22:46] Low energy state = say things and do things that hurt your relationship [23:39] Peak State = Beautiful state, Low - energy state = suffering state [24:08] Over
achievers don't suffer, right?
Sorting is found to
produce significantly positive effects in both reading and math — and for both
high and low
achievers.
But academic achievement is not the only necessity of a skilled workforce for the twenty - first century education: whilst China may be
producing high PISA
achievers it also recognises a shortage of «creative problem - solvers».
Finn and Wright analyzed results from the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, to show that the United States is exceptionally bad at
producing low - income
high achievers.
To see how well schools in the United States do at
producing high - achieving math students, we compared the percentage of U.S. students in the
high - school graduating Class of 2009 with advanced skills in mathematics to percentages of similarly
high achievers in other countries.
Alliance
high schools have succeeded in
producing academic
achievers in the upper 1 / 3rd of their student body whose SAT scores are within striking distance of the national average, despite operating in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the United States.
High achiever who
produces results individually, as well as part of a results - focused team.
RE / MAX
Achievers» mission statement is to cater to the
high -
producing, career - oriented real estate professional, says Hatlestad.