She said the new city program would offer a "richer and more sophisticated set" of academic offerings.
The bread and butter of any good student is a set of academic skills: research, analysis, argument, clarity of thought, writing and, in some disciplines, good exam technique.
In the U.K., the critical culture can be fairly moribund and dominated by an oddly ill-informed set of academic assumptions.
They offer essentially the same set of academic departments and disciplines that they have for nearly 100 years: sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology and political science.
Adjusting to the quirks and foibles of a different system is the easy part of the job for the small but growing set of academic leaders in Britain who, like Ms. Tyson and Mr. VandeLinde, got their training in the United States.
The nation's governors and state school chiefs released on Wednesday a new set of academic standards, their final recommendations for what students should master in English and math as they move from the primary grades through high school graduation.
In the two decades since it was formed, the Knight Commission, which includes several university presidents and trustees, has been credited with spearheading several changes in college athletics, including a sweeping set of academic reforms that were passed in 2004.
Updated at 12.59pm BST 12.41pm BST Shiv Malik has joined the blog with this dispatch from a Hounslow school that boasts a fairly famous alumnus: I'm here at Feltham community college on the outskirts of west London where pupils and teachers have delivered a "truly outstanding" set of academic results.
Warning that a new set of academic standards was on the verge of falling into the "dustbin of history," the leader of a national teachers' union called on Tuesday for school systems to postpone using new tests to evaluate teachers and promote students.
This ambitious set of academic goals, which has been adopted by all but a handful of states, is intended to move schools away from rote learning and memorization toward a writing-intensive curriculum that cultivates reasoning skills required by the new economy.
