But easy ways to raise achievement don't exist in an enterprise this complex.

"There are still schools where children are not receiving the daily diet of good teaching that they need in order to raise achievement further."

Eligible schools were invited to apply for a grant of up to 6 million dollars over 3 years to support efforts to raise academic achievement.

The school was given notice to improve, needing to raise achievement, especially in mathematics.

Chicago has long struggled to raise achievement at schools that are among the country's most troubled.

In Houston, the program has raised academic achievement at its feeder schools and increased the number of students who attend college.

Only 45 percent, however, said they believed it raised academic achievement.

"We must raise graduation rates and achievement over all, urgently."

Will the influx of students into the field last, and can it raise American educational achievement along the way?

Will the surge of students into computer science last, and could it help raise American educational achievement?