71.   Last April, Hackett suspended Soward from the season opener against Purdue because of poor academic performance.

72.   Like many complicated issues, there are few hard statistics that make an absolute link between TV viewing and academic performance.

73.   Manuel Lujan, dean of admissions and registrar at Angelo State in San Angelo, said student admissions there are based solely on academic performance.

74.   McKeon said Crew should have discussed academic performance with board members and not in a courthouse.

75.   McKeon said Friday he wants lawyers for the schools chancellor to offer examples of how the district has failed to take specific steps to improve academic performance.

76.   Meier, however, dismissed the criticism, saying sarcastically that the change in academic performance among poorer students might be attributed to sunspots.

77.   Mills said the new standards had already raised academic performance.

78.   Most experimental schools have been operating for only a year or two, so the Board of Education has little data on academic performance.

79.   Much of the report focused on efforts to improve instruction, raise academic performance and implement a core curriculum.

80.   Nationwide, by any measure of academic performance, be it grades, tests or graduation rates, whites, on average, do better than blacks.