Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused. Maggie Gallagher
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval. Caroline Knapp
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. Jeffrey Kluger