And yet the system of incentives that drives academic advancement — grants, publications, and tenure decisions — rarely rewards openness.
The pressure for narrow academic advancement is a direct result of the No Child Left Behind law.
In terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women — hoist a mug for female achievement.
While the Princeton Charter School doesn't have a specialty theme, it does have a clear focus: "mastery of core knowledge and skills required for further academic advancement".
We can get some rough information from exams of this kind, but it is a mistake to use the exam scores as the basis for fundamental decisions about graduation, academic advancement and teacher effectiveness.
One of the most significant barriers to academic advancement is the conflict between work and family demands, Dr. Catherine De Angelis, editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
Colette Burson's amiable new comedy, which opens today at Cinema Village, follows three seniors at the prestigious (and barely fictitious) Halton School in Manhattan as they struggle to find academic advancement and sexual fulfillment.
Using squash as a tool for academic advancement in urban settings occupies a small but growing niche, said Greg H. Zaff, creator of Boston's SquashBusters, one of the first such programs in the country.
The women lost the case, but the district court ruled that it was "perfectly reasonable to maintain that academic advancement conditioned upon submission to sexual demands constitutes sex discrimination in education".
On the basis of his own teaching experience, Hirsch concluded that many American students lacked the basic knowledge of cultural terms and concepts that are necessary for academic advancement.
The university said: "We welcome our staff taking up appointments such as these as it enables the university to stay connected to business, ultimately for the benefit of the economy and academic advancement".
