On average, the poorer children in wealthier schools cut their achievement gap in half compared with their peers in poorer schools.
Florida is one of several states required to cut its achievement gap in half for all students by 2018, including those who are black, Hispanic, white, Asian, low-income, disabled or speak English as a second language.
And while the perceived lack of intrinsic value of an art experience may underlie the proposed cuts, our achievements over the past four decades show that the transformative power of the arts makes adequate funding support of DCA both necessary and prudent".
To have employed his irreverence to change the tone of popular broadcasting was a major achievement cut short.
It was not necessarily the drama of a great composer's crowning achievement cut short to be finished in the beyond, though Mr. Christie played the incomplete fugue and the chorale.
Among younger Kenyans, however, you cannot tell whether one is Luo, Kikuyu or any other tribe: The excitement over Obama's achievements cut across the board.
This is a genuine good news story, champions whose achievement cuts across entrenched barriers, vaults an impassible gulf of finance and privilege, a reprise of the most inspiring basic sporting principle of open competition.
Challenged by such issues as uneven student achievement, cuts in funding and growing mandates, our schools have failed to deliver on the promise of providing a high quality education to every child.
Achievement: Measured, cut, and hung in place new aluminum gutters on his 1929-era back-yard garage in the Throgs Neck area of the Bronx.
That statement may strike you as strange: wasn't the tax cut George W. Bush's central achievement before Osama bin Laden came along?
