21.   Advocates have predicted that academic performance will soar, while opponents warn that the voucher plan will gut public school systems.

22.   After his first year, he was expelled because of poor academic performance.

23.   After being suspended during spring practice and for the season opener against Purdue for poor academic performance, Soward said he has matured.

24.   After two internal reviews, Maryland instituted a series of changes in athletics department policies involving admissions, drug testing and academic performance.

25.   Almost all agreed that many district schools are making significant progress and that the state action will damage efforts to improve academic performance.

26.   Bush with humor and self-deprecating remarks about his mediocre academic performance at Yale, he diffused some of the tension.

27.   But academic performance remains about the same for these students as for public school students.

28.   But enforcing Title IX at an earlier stage can help to forge the links between healthy self-image and everything from improved academic performance to the prevention of unwanted pregnancies.

29.   But even as grades are up, academic performance is down.

30.   But school administrators, who say they face growing pressures to increase academic performance, are being put in a box.