Sentence examples for of school progress from inspiring English sources

And though Mr. Obama craves high grades from the electorate and from history, he is in a virtual dead heat with Mr. Romney in national polls, the political equivalent of school progress reports.

With up to 70 million children still out of school, progress towards universal primary education has stalled, with the most marginalised children – child labourers, poor rural girls, slum dwellers and ethnic minorities – falling further behind.

Mr. Friedman, of the national board, said over all, the city's poor performance in science suggested that the emphasis on math and English, which have been the main measures of school progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law, had come at the expense of other subjects.

SATs in English and maths are compulsory in Year 6, as this is the final year of Key Stage 2 which spans 7 11 years, and these measures are widely used as indicators of school progress and added value.

With more than 115 million primary school aged children out of school, progress towards the education targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals for 2015 has stalled, said Wright.

To account for the fact that schooling trajectories in sub-Saharan Africa are often subject to a variety of interruptions, including temporary withdrawals and grade repetition (Grant and Hallman 2008), we use two increasingly restrictive measures of schooling progress.

The main conclusions of empirical studies of relationships between a variety of measures of children's school progress and characteristics of their families are presented.

A further 40% of the gap between east Asian and native Australian children (the equivalent of a year's school progress) was accounted for by a range of school factors.

Transcripts are official records of a student's school progress in a college or university.

Timaeus and Boler [ 41] compared school progress of maternal and paternal orphans, ages eight to 20 years residing in a South African province known to have high HIV/AIDS mortality rates.

He said Barack Obama Sr .had never stopped caring about the son he left behind, recalling how he proudly showed off the photograph and school progress reports of the young man who would become president.