Sentence examples for dire academic from inspiring English sources

But what has gone largely unsaid is that many of Cincinnati's community schools are still in dire academic straits, according to an analysis by The New York Times, despite millions of dollars in investment and years of reform efforts.

To prioritize feelings over arguments — and to police arguments to safeguard feelings — constitutes a dire threat to academic and intellectual freedom, not least because of the mobilization of outside political forces to intervene in on-campus discussions.

"It sounds like the latest installment from the 'Chicken Little, the Sky is Falling' crowd," Mr. Schaeffer said, adding that the group frequently tied reports of poor academic performance to dire predictions for the American work force and economy.

It aimed for nothing less than ending the achievement gap between whites and minorities, by threatening public schools with dire punishments unless they improved the academic performance of all students.

Microalgae have great potential as renewable fuel sources, but a dire need exists for high-level academic and industrial research into their growth and bioprocessing.

In its 2011 report on the experiences of minority ethnic academics, the Equality Challenge Unit highlighted dire rates of promotion among black scholars.

He and others see missed opportunities, particularly at a time when academic medical centers are in dire financial straits.

The start of each new academic year is heralded with dire predictions about the public schools and alarming visions of cutbacks, shortages and bureaucratic ineptitude.

The academic crisis is even more dire in war-torn Syria, where universities have been occupied or destroyed and thousands of students and professors have been displaced, threatened, or killed.

For years, education advocates have highlighted the dire importance of closing the achievement gap of academic performance between students of different ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

The destroy-the-town metaphor first came to mind in January, when Rauner answered a question about Chicago State University's dire financial situation by attacking the school's academic quality.