academic gown
Americannoun
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This year, the county is marking the fifth consecutive year of academic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 1, 2026
Researchers were able to pull adequate data from 35 states to compare reading scores, with California ranking 29th in academic growth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Those numbers were compared with data on academic growth from three years before the pandemic.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023
One D.C. teacher called the 50-percent rule “a security blanket that lifts everyone’s grades and lets us all feel better about student achievement even if there isn’t any real academic growth at all.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 30, 2022
The franchise is open to all academic citizens who have reached full academic growth, to all who have put on the toga virilis as the badge of having taken a complete degree in any faculty.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
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