It fails more boys than girls academically.

Black students can compete with their white peers academically.

She had not distinguished herself academically.

in your experience, do girls do better academically and later professionally in single-sex schools?

I think they do better academically and you can measure that very crudely from the examination results,I also think they do better academically because they have more opportunities to take the leading role in discussions and in managerial responsibilities.

Perhaps, the study speculated, having a white roommate helps academically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly white university.

But students who surfed the web during class did worse on their exams regardless of their ACT scores, suggesting that even the academically smartest students are harmed when they're distracted in class.

When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.

In 2011 they released a landmark study titled "Academically Adrift", which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college.

The results highlight the need to develop effective early interventions to help those with attention on track academically and for educators to encourage positive peer relationships, the researchers said.

Although neither of the Adelmans is academically trained in literature, the programmes, contain plenty of Shakespeare tradition and background.

Most colleges now offer first-year students a course specially designed to help them succeed academically and personally.

"School in the family of vocational education have that stereotype...that it's for kids who can't make it academically," he says.

School in the family of vocational education "have that stereotype...that it's for kids who can't make it academically," he says.