Though I applaud AltSchool's desire to create an educational environment that is both interesting and productive, the endeavor strikes me as geared not toward children but, rather, toward parents who are focussed on finding achievement-oriented systems that will create the next generation of leaders.
At a certain point, the challenge was not in conquering the achievements, but in finding achievements to conquer.
Such an increased propensity of GPs for recording their cessation advice would result in QOF compliance audits finding improved achievement of smoking-related QOF targets, without any or only minimal, increase in actual advice-giving.
Our finding that achievement goals and contextual information can jointly influence striatal sensitivity to feedback during learning fits within the broader picture of research showing modulation of striatal reward responses by individual differences in motivation and goals.
Two years later, a federal panel appointed by President George W. Bush urged that pre-kindergarten to eighth-grade math curriculums be streamlined after finding that math achievement for American students was at "a mediocre level" compared with that of their peers worldwide.
Perhaps his most notable achievement was finding and proposing the names for Coelophysis and Monoclonius.
"My biggest achievement is finding a staff to rescue me from looking like a complete buffoon," he said.
In "Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine's true achievement is finding poetry in the prosaic business of becoming who she's been all along," Jennifer Schuessler said here in 2001.
In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine's true achievement is finding poetry in the prosaic business of becoming who she's been all along.
Now, in analyses of long-term data published in recent months, researchers are finding that while the achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed significantly over the past few decades, the gap between rich and poor students has grown substantially during the same period.
Buddy is a man whose idea of intellectual achievement is finding a new simile for female genitalia, whose motto for life is 'Never jack off a dog' (he'll tell you the story if you ask), who thinks that 'Christmas is always a ratfuck' and whose favourite practical joke involved putting his wife's ashes in a pepper grinder and inviting his friends round for dinner.
