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Article: US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Gives Keynote Address at ...
Business Wire;  May 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... achievement Centers in Baltimore in the summer of 2009. Higher Achievement is a national demonstration model for academic achievement during out-of-school time and is committed to making academic excellence a valued goal in underserved communities ...

Article: $11 Million Gates Grant Awarded to San Diego City Schools (SDCS) ...
PR Newswire;  November 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ...SAN DIEGO, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded an $11 million grant to San Diego City Schools (SDCS) and New American Schools (NAS) to transform three large San Diego high schools into high- performing small learning comminutes. The under-performing high schools

Article: ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ...
Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... examine the relationship between academic achievement and the following variables: anxiety ... significant positive correlation between academic achievement and both optimism and self-esteem ... correlations were negative between academic achievement and both anxiety and pessimism ...

Article: Academic achievement of K-12 students with ...
Exceptional Children;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... is of interest to investigate the academic achievement skills of students with E/BD in ... a) comparative analyses of the academic achievement of children with E/BD with normally ... types of problem behavior related to academic achievement (e.g., Anderson, Kutash ...

Article: School counselors, comprehensive school counseling programs, and ...
Professional School Counseling;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... primary mission is the improvement of academic achievement. This article examines the research ... counselors' efforts related to academic achievement and concludes that there is little ... strategic interventions to improve academic achievement. ********** In 2003 ...

Article: Family Decision-Making Style, Peer Group Affiliation and Prior ...
The Journal of Negro Education;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... peer group affiliation, and prior academic achievement as predictors of academic achievement of African American students. The ... socioeconomic status (SES) predicted academic achievement. The study includes a discussion ...

Approaches to learning and academic achievement of Filipino ...
Journal of Genetic Psychology;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... to be an important predictor of academic achievement (Biggs, 1987; Entwistle & ... likely to attain high levels of academic achievement, whereas those who rely on the ... approaches to study and their links to academic achievement, may not be valid for Filipino ...