Sentence examples for academic advantages from inspiring English sources

For all the academic advantages of Needham High School, what struck him, he said, was the cost to all this achieving and performing.

They point out that no study has conclusively proven homework's academic advantages in grade school, although some studies say that rigorous homework improves standardized test scores.

Michler added that playing for a high school team offered athletes social and academic advantages that do not exist with a club team, though some academy backers disputed that.

John Deasy, superintendent of public schools in Prince George's County, said that he wants the students in his district — where nearly half of the students, many of whom are minorities, receive free and reduced-price lunches — to have the same academic advantages as students in, say, Greenwich, Conn.

The de Sousas began homeschooling her, partly because they thought they could manage Katerina's pain better at home, and partly because they believed that it conferred some academic advantages — but mainly because they worried that social workers might arrive at school and take their daughter away.

Researchers have proven academic advantages of group work for students, in large part due to the perception of students having a secure support system, which cannot be obtained when working individually [10, 12, 13].

Being close to the teacher was much to my academic advantage.

Parents who want to give their young children an academic advantage have a powerful tool: school itself.

Ms. Fowler said they seemed less susceptible to grade comparisons and academic peer pressure than other students and sometimes even had an academic advantage because they had already learned to manage their time.

And unlike in sports, where physical size often plays an undeniable, difficult-to-circumvent role in your eventual success, in school a physical disadvantage can turn into an academic advantage: children may learn to compete where they can succeed, where their persistence and attention can accomplish what their physical size may not.

Since children from higher classes can receive better education, the advantage of their socioeconomic status will gradually turn into an academic advantage and the direct intervention of socioeconomic resources in education opportunities is no longer necessary.