Sentences with phrase «school dropout from»

William Mulholland, a high school dropout from Ireland, designed the Los Angeles water infrastructure in the 1880s.

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.

Noah Wylie plays Leonard, a disgraced schoolteacher turned drug dealer who sees his own chance at redemption by saving a high - school dropout from giving up on himself.

This is Beauty School Dropout from Dollish Polish, which was part of last month's Grease - themed Beauty Quartet Box.

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.

If the 90,488 high school dropouts from the Class of 2010 had earned their diplomas instead of dropping out, Florida's economy would have seen an additional $ 24 billion in wages over these students» lifetimes.

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Yahoo buys Tumblr from a high school dropout and promises not to mess it up.

A plan for providing volunteer tutors for children from disturbed homes who are potential school dropouts has been implemented by the Friendly Visitor workers.

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.

No amount of theatrics from the bench — and his were abundant — could disguise this high school dropout's shallow grasp of the law.

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.

This is what my mother did when I was in Tenth Grade, as a result of her doing that and making the school system put me in a different school where I was safer, I went from being, almost a high school dropout, to being the first person in my family to graduate from college.

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.

Most of them are considered to be non-literate, school dropouts, or young females who have escaped from outmoded socio - cultural practices such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation (female circumcision) among others.

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.

«Participation in school sports offers so many benefits to children and teens, from lower dropout rates to improved health and reduced obesity.

Buried in Albert Einstein's mail one spring day in 1953 lay a letter from an ordinary mortal, a 20 - year - old high school dropout named John Moffat.

Conviction Premise: Hilary Swank stars as a high - school dropout who gets her degree and goes to law school so she can free her wrongly convicted brother (Sam Rockwell) from prison.

Gender - based discrimination and substantitive and cultural biases continue to limit oprions that girls have in education and contribute to their prmature dropout from school.

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

«Do High - School Dropouts Benefit From Obtaining a GED?»

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.

The high - school dropout rate hovered at about 50 percent, and just 9 percent of entering 9th graders ever graduated from college.

When I graduated from Central High, college graduates earned 50 percent more than high - school graduates and twice that of dropouts.

Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.

High school dropouts almost always quit school because of a combination of risk factors, many of which are present before the student starts kindergarten, an analysis of data from 44 dropout trend studies concludes.

Data from the United States Department of Corrections indicates that 82 percent of prisoners are school dropouts.

Writing can also reduce the neural processing blockades that result from the stress of boredom — the most frequent reason high school dropouts give for leaving school.

American Lessons: When Social Inequality is Educational Inequality Helsinki University Bulletin, June 15, 2012 «According to [Dean Kathleen] McCartney, American public schools have been suffering from low test scores, high dropout rates and problems related to prejudice.

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.

Programs range from Stanford Online High School to specialized dropout prevention high schools run in partnership with community - based nonprofits toRocketship, which plows savings from technology into extended learning opportunities and higher teacher salaries, to the North Carolina Virtual Public School, a signature program of Democratic Governor Bev Purdue (launched when she was the state's Lt. Governor).

Efforts to prevent students from dropping out of school should begin when children start school, not when they're about to leave it, says Franklin P. Schargel, one of the authors of Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Prschool should begin when children start school, not when they're about to leave it, says Franklin P. Schargel, one of the authors of Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Prschool, not when they're about to leave it, says Franklin P. Schargel, one of the authors of Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout PrSchool Dropout Problem.

Thus the total commitment from 1991 to 1995 for the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program, involving a randomized trial in each of 16 sites, was $ 7.3 million.

So Starr directed his staff to prepare a report on the question, and they looked at the experience of the class of 2011, dropouts and non-dropouts, from all of the county's 26 high schools, to see what they could learn.

We have decreased our dropout rate from five per cent to one per cent, we even would like to make it zero this school year,» Insilada says.

Just the loss in state and federal tax revenues from the 23 million high - school dropouts has been estimated at $ 50 billion a year.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationSchools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduatioDropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationschools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduatiodropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

«When we went off the reservation, we did not have these kinds of dropout rates,» said Mitchell, who graduated from Shead High School in nearby Eastport in 1966.

Education initiatives that ranged from boosting teacher salaries to driving down high school dropout rates dominated much of Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's State of the State Address to lawmakers in Nashville last week.

Over the years, a number of studies (from Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Texas) have documented dismal outcomes in virtual schools, including low course - completion rates and higher - than - average school dropout rates.

The dropout rate means that the high schools» most acute failures largely vanish from sight.

So few people know how big these dropout numbers are that, in a recent book, Michael Dyson scolds Bill Cosby for (accurately) lamenting the fact that only half of African Americans graduate from high school (see p. 78).

Most schools, if they collect dropout data at all, use sketchy information that often varies from school to school.

The fact that nearly half of the former high school dropouts who join ChalleNGe are white shows that a broad swath of America's teenagers would profit from a healthy dose of academic and social development.

Like Chloe, many students have no choice but to work long hours to pay for school, which prevents them from fully engaging in their studies and probably contributes to the high dropout rate among low - income students.

Rural schools have the lowest rates of sending students to college and the highest dropout rates from college.

For dropouts, the economic picture is even bleaker: According to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, over a working lifetime from ages 18 to 64, high school dropouts are estimated to earn about $ 400,000 less than those with diplomas.

* Strategies to Keep Kids in School States can learn a lesson from a recently released report about dropout rates in 16 states.

The current dropout rate is 13.9 percent, down from 15.3 percent in the 1997 - 1998 school year.

If all such withdrawals from ALS schools in Florida were counted as dropouts, the number of times that students quit school statewide that year would increase by at least 5 percent.