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...Still, I took consolation this week even as I watched LSU rout Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl. The TV showed LSU 41, Notre Dame 14, but it flashed another number: the Notre Dame team grade-point average surpasses 3.0, one of the highest in all of Division I college football and at one of the nation's best universities. Notre Dame also graduates 95% of its players while less than half the football team graduates from LSU (a program that Saban left as coach just two years ago). Certainly, some cynics will tell you that the tough academics...
...knows everything already and doesn't need reps?" Most people know that doctors take something like the lawyers'bar exam, called specialty boards, to get certified. Since the mid-'80s certification is not even permanent; pass the bar and you're a lawyer for life, but get a great grade on your boards and guess what - you have to take them again 10 years later or lose your certification. And that's every 10 years until you quit or die. Board exams are really hard - they stress rare things and subtle differences that even a very good, very busy doctor...
Melinda R. Cep likes to take credit for her sister’s success. “Her first grade teacher asked her what she wanted to learn,” Melinda recalls, “and Casey was very adamant that she wanted to learn to read, because her sister already knew...
...heaviest dose of instruction with real-world relevance is the Academy's innovative senior mastery process. The two-year seminar beginning in eleventh grade is both a tutorial on searching for a job and an exercise in self-exploration. Each student fills fat white binders with biographies, personal mission statements, lists of life and career goals, and assorted essays in which they articulate and assess their own strengths, interests and ambitions. A boy who wants to be a mechanical engineer composed an essay titled "How To Be A Better Me," outlining the steps he intends to take to "become successful...
...other graduation requirements, in keeping with the policy of Academy principal Cora Christmas that no child will be left behind, held back, or put on a separate track. To that end, the Academy embeds within its 20-week semesters 10-week remedial classes for students performing below grade level and offers previews of advanced classes for those who've surpassed their classmates. Christmas believes the strategy is a better way of keeping advanced students stimulated and helping struggling students retain what they learn than if they tried to absorb the lessons during disconnected summer sessions. "There's not this thing...