Sentence examples for spur academic from inspiring English sources

He announces a plan to develop the first new state learning standards since 1996, to further spur academic excellence.

I am a realist, after all, and I do fret over things I may be able to do little or nothing about directly: economic injustice; wars and the repeated failure to learn from history; our gun-crazy society; the overreliance on tests to spur academic achievement; and attempts to strip women of their reproductive rights.

Almost any new school program initially stirs up excitement among students and may lure talented new teachers, which has a way of spurring academic improvement.

Increasing demand for energy has spurred academic and technological interest to research into new resources, among which solar energy seems to be the most ideal to meet the target as it is abundant, clean, and inexhaustible.

Doctors have said it is probably the culprit behind the lymphoma that his mother developed two years ago, and all along, it has spurred his academic interests.

The studies invoked as proof that involvement in band — or dance or sculpture — spurs higher academic performance actually show nothing of the sort.

He analyzes in a longitudinal study how the Southern Oregon University and the Ashland cultural cluster in the US State Oregon grew hand in hand, with the cluster spurring the academic development of its parent.

Mr. Millsaps thought the added academic options could spur admissions for the consolidated schools.

Interest from car companies in academic research to spur innovation is coming from all the major manufacturers, including Ford, U of M's nearby neighbor.

With this analysis and presentation, we aim to spur broader interest into MP to facilitate academic and translational development of MP.

In an effort to spur innovation and promote public-private partnerships, Congress in 1980 declared that academic institutions and small businesses could hold on to intellectual property rights for inventions made under federally funded research programs.