Sentence examples for academic aspirations from inspiring English sources

While academic tracking is one factor possibly associated with depressive symptoms, past research has suggested that students who reported high levels of depressive symptoms may be less motivated to achieve academically, have poorer cognitive skills [ 1] and have lower academic aspirations [ 2], all of which may lead students to be assigned to lower academic track.

Opera Moderne is ambitious, but in the Red Scare, given its academic aspirations, the company could have been more so.

The expedition's academic aspirations include investigating the circulation of the Southern Ocean and its impact on the global carbon cycle.

A first-generation Turkish-American from New Jersey, she had "no real academic aspirations" until the fateful day when she stepped into a beginning Russian class.

But the real goal of StreetSquash and CitySquash, the directors say, is to help students improve their grades and raise their academic aspirations.

The more students engage in such processes, the more they are encouraged to forget their own responsibilities and commitment to study as well as their own academic aspirations.

Those at the bottom of the educational heap tend to be white, working-class, Protestant boys from families in which academic aspiration is absent.

It was attributed in part to a lack of academic aspiration at home, with white working-class parents less likely to take an interest or engage with their children's schooling and perpetuating a culture of "narrow horizons".

Headteacher Max Haimendorf, the first Teach First graduate to make it to headship, has travelled around the US and has imbibed much of the thinking of the charter school movement, and specifically of its Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), where schools have long academic days, stern discipline, and high academic aspiration.

Moderate family background effects, strong and consistent academic ability effects and growing academic aspiration effects were found across most analyses, lending support to theories that predict family background has direct and indirect effects on higher education choices.

As a young academic with aspirations to playwriting, I remember being dazzled by its faultless convergence of argument and character, its startling structural techniques, its bold understanding of what little needs to be written to conjure a world, its erotic landscape, its casual wit and a last line, heartstoppingly ironic, which has stayed in my head for 20 years.