educational excellence
Superior academic achievement
Educational excellence is achievement at the highest levels of learning and instruction.
Schools pursue educational excellence through rigorous curricula and qualified teachers.
The phrase appears frequently in mission statements and policy documents, where it can function as genuine aspiration or empty rhetoric: The district's commitment to educational excellence produced rising test scores or They talked about educational excellence while cutting the budget.
- career readinessPrepared for working life
- active learningEducation through direct participation
- critical thinkingObjective evaluation of information
- cultural competenceEffective cross-group interaction ability
- lecturesFormal instructional talks
high achiever · well-rounded student · accreditation · gold standard · lifelong learning · scaffolding · formative assessment · alumni network · digital literacy · emotional intelligence · student organizations · cutting edge · continuous improvement · magna · honor roll · problem-solving skills · standards · merit
educational excellencepoor education
Deficient formal instruction
dropout factories · diploma mills · illiteracy · functional illiteracy