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A high school dropout with an MFA from Columbia University, Banks is a spectacular oddball, one who makes haunting sculptures that reinvigorate played - out symbolism, using electricity, propane, salt, plywood, aluminum, and any means necessary.

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At 18, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition.

A jaw - dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition.

At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition.

The 20 - something Richard Branson racked up a résumé that would impress no one: high - school dropout with poor reading and math skills.

Not exact matches

Had Willms chosen another field, his story could be inspirational: he's a high - school dropout who built an enterprise with a half billion dollars in revenue.

The Scour team reformed as Red Swoosh, a peer - to - peer file - sharing service Akamai Technologies later bought for $ 19 million before founding Uber, ride - for - hire sharing service, with Garrett Camp, co-founder of StumbleUpon, and himself a graduate school dropout.

His high school was in one of the country's worst school districts with a 40 % dropout rate, he says.

We had one woman working with us who wanted us to do something with high school dropouts in Canada, which we did, stupidly.

Raymond Abbott is a high school dropout from Camden, New Jersey, one of the poorest cities in America with over 60 percent of its residents on welfare.

It deals with such specific issues as school dropouts, the community school issues, unemployment, and community organizations.

In 1995, when I was a college sophomore (in more ways than one), I drove from New Jersey to California with a med school dropout named Becky, in pursuit of some derivative of Jack Kerouac's open - road fantasia.

The Foundation has partnered with Communities in Schools (CIS)-- the nation's largest, non-profit, dropout - prevention organization — in West Los Angeles to implement fitness and wellness programs in two large urban high sSchools (CIS)-- the nation's largest, non-profit, dropout - prevention organization — in West Los Angeles to implement fitness and wellness programs in two large urban high schoolsschools.

In 2010, Washington Monthly ranked the school 13th on a list of the 50 four - year colleges with the lowest graduation rates, a «dropout factory.»

Supt Baah said the deceased, lived with his family in a one - storey building at Shiashie, while Asiedu, a school dropout, lived with his girlfriend at Agbogloshie in Accra.

The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hoSchool District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hoschool suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hoschool dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

They impressed upon government to completely eliminate schools under trees which is prevalent in the three regions of the north, with an increasing population of school dropouts.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hoSchool District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hoschool suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hoschool dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

With a big idea, a lot of confidence, and plenty of nerve, even a medical school dropout can do all right.

«If schools can not facilitate such development, young people are likely to have increased prejudice and higher dropout rates, with significant implications for the United States» social and economic health.»

A college dropout, Shoemaker credits Weiss with getting him into graduate school at MIT without an undergraduate degree.

Beauty School Dropout is a white crelly with glitters in various shapes and shades of pink, holographic silver, and white, as well as a fine pink shimmer throughout.

I'm wearing Beauty School Dropout at three coats with one coat of Seche Vite top coat.

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Austin, Texas About Blog This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, college readiness, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, race, class, and gender issues with additional focus at the national level.

And tell that film school dropout in front of me with the notepad to GO THE F**K home!

WHAT: More than year after a messy break - up, med school dropout Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) hits it off with a cute animator named Chantry (Zoe Kazan) at the house party of a mutual friend (Adam Driver).

The film centers around med school dropout Wallace (Radcliffe), who strikes a close relationship with quirky animator Chantry (Kazan).

Kid Cannabis sees Brown play Nate Norman, a high - school dropout from Idaho who builds a multi-million empire and a rivalry with various drug lords by trafficking marijuana across the US / Canada border.

Early on, Donna meets Ted (Mark Ruffalo), a law school dropout (with only a semester to go before graduation — what a catch!)

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

With the new powers granted by the Illinois legislature, Daley fils quickly formed a new school management team, which, just as quickly, unveiled what one local paper called «a dizzying array of new programs,» including principal training, longer school days, expanded preschool, college classes for the gifted, hiring of parents as truant officers, and alternative schools for dropouts.

If you want to understand critical educational and life events»» like school graduation and dropout, entry into college or postsecondary training, matriculation with a degree and entry into the workforce, and so on»» you must use hazard modeling.

But a worker with technical skills will outearn a high school or college dropout with no such skills.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

Sixty - five percent of students in Montana now go to a school with a Graduation Matters initiative, and we are already seeing the results of this statewide focus on graduation — our dropout rates are down.

She's dealt with homelessness, abuse, and ADHD — and attends a school with one of the highest dropout rates in New Hampshire.

Districts with higher - than - predicted high - school dropout rates were, like states with high dropout rates, more likely to have charter schools and a greater share of students enrolled in charters.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

Faced with the highest high school dropout, foreclosure, and unemployment rates in this country, only one out of 10 students in the state of Nevada will earn bachelor's degrees.

A higher - or lower - than - expected high - school dropout rate has no clear relationship to the passage or strength of charter legislation, but does, interestingly, have a strong relationship with charter school participation.

We conducted our analysis alternately using absolute student achievement, measured with statewide mean SAT scores for the 1989 — 90 school year and the mean high - school dropout rate calculated from 1990 census data, and with a second measure that represents the deviation of actual achievement from expected student performance.

It may be that SAT scores, as a very public measure of school performance, lead to agitation for charter laws, but that charters themselves are more likely to target students at risk of dropping out, and therefore participation is more closely associated with dropout rates.

It is also important to remember that untreated ADHD is associated with increased risks of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropout, and other behavioral problems.

Given the problems of high dropout rates and low student achievement that many states have already faced with fully - virtual schooling providers, quality concerns over providers of individual online courses should not be ignored.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

It is substantially larger than differences between the growth rates for children of high - school dropouts and the children of parents with graduate degrees as well as those between blacks and whites, differences that are the focus of considerable concern.

In addition, the AFT report cites «serious problems and significant costs» associated with retention, including student alienation from school, serious classroom discipline problems, and a significantly increased school dropout rate.