“My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.” WholeCareersIssuesAchievementAnxietyAcademicAdequacy Author:Ram Dass
“After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.” FirstsWellsSchoolCitiesAchievementPrimariesGradesAcademicFortePrimary SchoolStellarAcademic AchievementPenmanship Author:Vernon L. Smith
“(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.” YearsWellsHas BeensDoneAbleAchievementLowsDiscriminationAgendasAcademicHarshCrowBreakdownLeftistsJim CrowAcademic Achievement Author:Walter E. Williams
“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.” ChildrenMightAbleTogetherSportsTakenDemandAchievementPerceptionAdultsCapacityHarmContemporaryInnocentMaturityAcademicExceedCompetentParticipatingAdaptiveAcademic AchievementCompetitive Sports Author:David Elkind
“One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.” HomeMotherStudentsAchievementAcademicIndicatorsAcademic SuccessStudent Achievement Author:Tony Danza
“We found out that the young people who had a substantial number of lessons in the Resolving Conflict Creatively Curriculum ... not only did better in terms of people skills, that they managed their emotions, they were less violent and more caring, but they actually did better on their academic achievement tests.” PeopleYoungFoundTermNumbersEmotionYouthLessonsSkillsConflictAchievementTestsCaringViolentResolveResolutionAcademicCurriculumWin WinPeople SkillsAcademic AchievementResolving Conflict Author:Linda Lantieri
“There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'” InternetAchievementEvidenceApplicationAcademic Author:Larry Cuban
“I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels.” ThinkingWorldLooksCountryAbleSchoolLevelsAchievementDetermineUsaScoreMakeupAcademicAcademic Achievement Author:Michelle Rhee
“I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.” WantHeartStoriesFeelingsValuesEmotionCompassionAchievementIntellectualGenerosityAcademicMeasurementLove RelationshipAcademic Achievement Author:Satish Kumar
“I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty. High-achieving colleagues attempting to get jobs for their high-achieving children. Foundation executives doing fine and noble things. Prizes, of course, and high academic achievement.” ThinkingChildrenJobsCoursesOpportunityAchieveFineAchievementFoundationNobleReleasePrizeExecutivesRighteousnessAcademicColleaguesHierarchyAttemptingMajestyWikileaksAcademic Achievement Author:Thomas Frank
“In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.” ChildrenHardAchievementAdultsDenyProductivityLinksTime ManagementAcademicRobustAcademic Achievement Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.” MenYoungParentTakenCollegeAchievementGood ManAcademicAcademic Achievement Book:Lean In for Graduates Source: Lean In for Graduates
“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.” TryingReasonActionSchoolMotivationEffectsBalanceAchievementHigh SchoolConceptsBuiltTestsPrejudiceAcceptedScoreStatisticsAcademicTestingAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmativeClassmatesPrincetonTest ScoresAcademic Achievement Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.” SchoolBlackAchieveAchievementIntellectualHigh SchoolHolesAcademicBlack HoleRetarded Book:Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky
“Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.” ImportantHelpingShowsHomeActionIndividualLevelsFailingAchieveSkillsAchievementResearchUltimateRateEducationalIncomeBeing TrueEmploymentMinoritiesGapsAcademicOwnershipCompetenceAffirmative ActionAffirmativeParityHome OwnershipTrue Equality Author:Shelby Steele
“When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?” IfsIdeasSchoolBlackSimpleWhiteRaceCitiesStudentsHigherAchievementSmartHigh SchoolNegativeAfrican AmericanSatSufficientScorePrimeAcademicStereotypeInner CityPrestigiousAcademic AchievementQuestionnairesInner City SchoolsNegative StereotypesSat Scores Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.” WantShouldFirstsBelieveChildrenCareEffortAchieveAchievementOur ChildrenEducationalAcademicAdequateContentionAcademic Achievement Author:Nel Noddings