Colleges have long recruited athletes, musicians, and other scholars whose grades aren't cum laude -- but that's because colleges value these talents and get something in return.
Because the average income in Brownsville is $28,000, all scholars in seventh grade at Mott Hall Bridges Academy take a year-long entrepreneurship program.
Song was named an All-American Scholar in the ninth grade.
Critics have noted that the advantage its preschoolers gain in test scores fades by third grade, but scholars also have found that Head Start has important impacts on graduates, including lessening the chance that they will be convicted of a crime years later.
Chinese scholars primarily use grades from professional institutes.
He was the firth corporate sponsor of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, and in 1989 established the Ralph E. Ward Achievement Award which he gave annually to recognize the graduating JRF Scholar with the highest cumulative grade point average.
In particular, the idea that the senior scholar doles out authorship like a grade is problematic, and one could not find an advocate of that widespread practice anywhere in bioethics or among the published writings on academic integrity.
Subsequent generations of scholars have pegged Kircher as a Grade A charlatan.
As a scholar, he was noted for having a grade point average that rivaled his scoring average.
The next time I am tempted to snicker at the concept of scholar-athletes, I will think about the grade point averages and the majors of the 16 finalists.
Parents, educators and politicians are focusing on how, in a world of escalating academic expectations, young children should be prepared to become grade-school scholars.
