• As a result of poor school achievement, African-Caribbean students are under-represented in scientific careers.

    BBC: Science

  • But it has given a warning that the Intermediate GNVQ makes "an important contribution" towards government targets for school achievement.

    BBC: Computer-related studies are often popular with boys

  • In his letter, Mr Moore calls for the immediate suspension of school performance tables, saying a "snapshot of school achievement" was damaging.

    BBC: 'Targets to blame for unruly pupils'

  • There is also increasing evidence that interventions can produce middle-to longer-run effects on school achievement, special education placement, grade retention, disruptive behavior and delinquency and high school graduation.

    UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

  • Obesity and hunger affect school achievement and health care in fairly obvious ways, Vilsack said, while speaking to a group at the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital at Maine Medical Center.

    WSJ: Ag chief: youth obesity issue of national security

  • Additionally, school achievement rates are generally poor.

    UNESCO: Country Profile: Sierra Leone

  • Laura Clancy, chief of staff at charter-school nonprofit Achievement First, has seen her share of business refugees looking for what they think will be a soft landing or a hero's welcome doing philanthropic work.

    WSJ: Contemplating a Career in Nonprofits?

  • "In short, the budget should go further to ensure that children's achievement at school should reflect their ability not their background, " she said.

    BBC: Economy 'top priority' for ?15bn Welsh government budget

  • The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, housed within the Department of Education, will work with the Executive Office of the President and Cabinet agencies to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African American student achievement in school and college, and to develop a national network of individuals, organizations, and communities that will share and implement these practices.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • When Geovani was in high school, the principal wanted to honor his academic achievement by displaying his photo in school hallways.

    NPR: A U.S. Medic Who Won't Make It Home

  • As a result, school enrolment, retention and achievement rates are particularly low in rural areas and, more specifically, among indigenous people.

    UNESCO: Bilingual Literacy for Life

  • The NIAO report also found a "strong correlation between between low levels of academic achievement and free school meal entitlement (an indicator of social deprivation)".

    BBC: Classroom

  • As a result, school attendance, retention and achievement rates as well as the quality of education in Cambodia, particularly in rural areas, continues to be low.

    UNESCO: Room to Read: Local Language Publishing Programme

  • The staff at this school is struggling to boost achievement.

    NPR: Baltimore Students Join JROTC to Improve Lives

  • Though reaching a BCS Bowl Game is certainly a great achievement for any school, the only game that really matters in the current climate of college bowl games is the final game.

    FORBES: 'Boise Banter' Rekindles Buzz For College Football Playoffs

  • Chancellor Klein and I also share the belief that an outstanding principal, given the support he or she needs, is indispensable to driving the remarkable gains we need in student achievement in a school.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Just last week, you were recognized by a National Blue Ribbon -- as a National Blue Ribbon School because of your record of achievement.

    WHITEHOUSE: The President��s Back to School Speech

  • One of the proudest occasions of my life was facilitating and witnessing the birth of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School in 1998, where the achievement gap between black and white students has virtually been eliminated.

    WHITEHOUSE: Education Is The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time

  • Now aged 54 and married with a child, he said he did not connect his experiences at school with years of under-achievement at work, a failed marriage and binge-drinking until he had therapy after a breakdown in April 2005.

    BBC: Patrick Raggett

  • Mr. MIKE CASSERLY (The Council Of Great City School): Before Hurricane Katrina, it was a school system and a city whose student achievement was nationally renowned as being extremely low.

    NPR: New Orleans Hires Veteran to Run City's Schools

  • Curriculums in every country or school system have expectations for levels of achievement, but the Massachusetts system is characterised by a particular focus on lists of specific pieces of information.

    BBC: Massachusetts: Pioneering Gove's knowledge curriculum

  • As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, both Princeton and Harvard University researchers have concluded that students in the Milwaukee choice program have made achievement gains over their public school counterparts.

    CNN: Competition, Not Standards

  • Under-achievement is seen at primary school, where national tests in maths and English show both groups are less likely than others to reach the expected level, and continues up to GCSE level and beyond.

    BBC: Doreen Lawrence launches race education centre

  • B-School students are usually very analytical and achievement-oriented.

    FORBES: The Ten Biggest Lies of B-School

  • It is given to pupils who are eligible for free school meals with the aim of closing the achievement gap between rich and poor.

    BBC: Pupils in playground

  • The achievement gaps we see in elementary school and beyond begin before children enter kindergarten--the quality of child care and educational settings in the years preceding matter.

    FORBES: U.S. Rep. George Miller

  • In fact, it is understood in high school that recruited athletes of even modest scholastic achievement regularly do better getting into select schools than their peers with much higher academic credentials.

    FORBES: When Colleges Recruit Athletes, Everyone Loses

  • Six talented students guarantee a focus for serious achievement from which the rest of the school undoubtedly benefits.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • My journey began in the summer of 2010 when I received a letter informing me of the restructuring of Emerson Elementary School as a result of low performance in student achievement.

    WHITEHOUSE: Fostering a School and Home Connection

  • Lessons include in-school visits from local entrepreneurs and field trips to Junior Achievement centers where kids learn financial lessons such as opening a bank account.

    WSJ: Making Young Kids Smarter About Finance

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