Sentence examples for academic bar from inspiring English sources

However, those responsible for raising this academic bar don't appear to have considered the long-term consequences.

Bob Schaeffer, public education director for the organization, said that Achieve's reports invariably called for raising the academic bar for students.

Nevertheless, they concede that they routinely lower the academic bar for quarterbacks, soccer goalies, downhill skiers and other athletes recruited by coaches.

"I feel it raises the academic bar in the entire school," said Dillard E. Collins, principal of an elementary school in Hampstead, N.H., who enrolled his own son in a readiness class in nearby Nashua in the 1980s.

Various changes have been suggested, including direct elections of judges without party intervention, having judges appointed by the governor, or placing the recommendations for judgeships in the hands of academics, bar associations and civic groups.

My speaking engagements include law schools, academic institutions, bar associations, Muslim organizations, middle schools, and high schools.

In a sharply critical report, it said the school had failed to deal with its most difficult problems, including admissions, student achievement, grading, academic standards, bar passage and placement.

He could have transferred when academic sanctions barred the Huskies from the NCAA tournament his junior season.

In response to a rather lyrical question about the influence of legal blogs, which included a metaphor about trees falling in forests, the barrister and academic said:"The bar has been raised [for independent bloggers] not just by mainstream media but by new blogs".

Business spends more money on research and development than the public and academic sectors combined (bar chart at left).

It would allow industry scientists greater leeway to join EPA panels, but bar academic scientists on the panels from talking about matters related to research they're doing.