However, those responsible for raising this academic bar don't appear to have considered the long-term consequences.
Nevertheless, they concede that they routinely lower the academic bar for quarterbacks, soccer goalies, downhill skiers and other athletes recruited by coaches.
Bob Schaeffer, public education director for the organization, said that Achieve's reports invariably called for raising the academic bar for students.
Two years ago, when college officials first tried to enforce the 2.0 rule to raise the academic bar, Mr. Butts abruptly canceled the crackdown, saying he feared that students had not been adequately notified.
"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.
It also includes academic counseling and academic support, bar preparation, and promoting additional values, such personal accountability and commitment to service.
My speaking engagements include law schools, academic institutions, bar associations, Muslim organizations, middle schools, and high schools.
Considered "a dean of the academic tax bar," Surrey contributed to the field of tax law in many ways.
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.
She is also a frequent speaker and panelist for academic and bar association conferences, addressing both policy questions and practical issues of lawyering through interpreters and providing legal services to rural minorities.
