The high school encourages participation in academic "drop-in labs" that help buttress students' regular class work and can help "break down challenging subject matter in an informal setting," said James Kaishian, the high school principal.
But in reality he is the quintessential Washingtonian.He started his career as a failed academic, dropping out of Yale after a few terms and never completing his PhD at the University of Wisconsin.
Perhaps too much is expected of academic drop-in-the-bucket interventions that apply a relatively few hours of symbolism towards a lifetime of ethical temptations and challenges.
Ms. Berenson, the daughter of two New York academics, dropped out of M.I.T. and roamed around Central America before surfacing in Peru in the 1990s.
Or is its academic name-dropping just a put-on?
In fact, academic achievement drops off when students enter classes that lack such incentives.
He was a clever lad who went to the grammar school, but in those days academic students dropped art, so Hockney failed exams deliberately.
Habilitation funding is particularly important because women's representation in academic research drops precipitously from 30% to only 15% between the Ph.D. and the completion of the habilitation.
As she and her peers struggled to keep up in English, their academic performance dropped, she said.
The school's score on the all-important Academic Progress Index dropped 203 points, from 731 to 528.
I excused myself and walked into the middle of the academic quad, dropped my books, and stared off into the sky.
