Sentences with phrase «as getting a college education»

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Borrowing by students and their families has picked up steam over the years as social and economic pressure grows to obtain a college education to get ahead, even as states reduce their financial support for colleges and colleges raise their tuition.

In theory, nothing is stopping big companies from taking the same strategy approach as startups do, as I teach in my seminar «Three Ways to Get Back Your Company's Start - upness» at Babson College's Executive Education Center.

Then there are those who come to Disney as a College Program intern, or as a seasonal employee, and then come to the realization that they'd rather get free park admission for the rest of their lives than continue pursuing their education.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

If you're organized, knowledgeable about the higher education process, and enjoy working with adolescents and their parents, consider starting a side business as an independent college application consultant to help more smart, ambitious, and qualified kids get into the schools of their dreams.

If you're buying a home, a car, getting a college education, or even buying a new washer and dryer for your home, opening a line of credit probably makes sense as these are large - money events.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

As parents, we all want to make sure that we get our child the right equipment so they're fully prepared for a college education.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the eqcollege, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the eqCollege Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the eqCollege Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the eqcollege) sides of the equation.

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

If a kid can come away from a science or engineering program in that decade and think, «I like this, I can do this, this is an option as a career,» then he or she can go on from there and take steps to get the necessary college education.

The bar has been set not by its critics but by KIPP itself: if KIPP and other No Excuses schools are to fulfill their promise as game changers in American education, and rewrite the script on reaching and teaching underserved kids, their graduates must not merely be accepted to college; they must demonstrate success once they get there.

Some observers fear, however, that a shift toward career preparation would ease the pressure on schools to provide top - notch academics for every child, reproducing a dynamic that has harmed generations of students: Those perceived to be «college material» are immersed in challenging courses, while those sized up as less capable or motivated get a watered - down education.

«I got to experience a variety of different challenges, participate in nearly every higher education policy debate, and craft new policy that has shaped the conversation in higher education in important ways,» Smith says, citing her work on the college scorecard and the financial aid shopping sheet as among the initiatives she found most interesting.

As June Kronholz reported in Education Next, studies have long found that disadvantaged students who participate in such activities are less likely to drop out, use tobacco or alcohol, or get pregnant; they are also more likely to score well on tests, enroll in college, and complete college.

Many experts think it is too early to say about real revolution in higher education as MOOC can not ensure getting of all skills a student can get in a college.

The Pew Report even suggests, on page twenty - five, that 90 percent of poor kids who graduate from college escape poverty as adults, which would seem to be the obvious place to mention the salient fact that our education system is not getting very many poor kids a college education.

But while the «education reformers» say their goal is to get all children «college and career ready,» they are trying to force high school juniors to take a Common Core test that is purposely designed to label the majority of juniors as failures.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

As reported yesterday in Dropout Nation, the civil rights collection's data on whether districts are providing comprehensive college - preparatory education to all of its students is flawed because it focuses on proportionality of course participation compared to overall district enrollment; this doesn't fully reveal the extent of how few kids — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — are not getting the preparation they need to do well in traditional colleges, technical schools, and apprenticeships (and ultimately, in the adult world).

It doesn't even help kids get on the path to college and career success; as Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Balfanz has also demonstrated (including in his 2007 study with colleague Douglas MacIver and Lisa Herzog of the Philadelphia Education Fund) sixth - graders who have been suspended at least once have just a one - in - five chance of graduating six years later.

They also discuss how restructuring UW colleges and extension can better serve students in the city and region as well as how the Higher Education Regional Alliance is leveraging the resources of higher education institutions to help businesses get the talent tEducation Regional Alliance is leveraging the resources of higher education institutions to help businesses get the talent teducation institutions to help businesses get the talent they need.

I've witnessed new head of school in early 40's, private school, get rid of all teachers older, and bring in young, recent college grads, who can view the head as being wise and all knowing Education Guru, despite the contrary being true, and be forever grateful for their first job and never challenge anything the head does or says.

Another approach is to infuse a college - going culture into schools (starting as early as the elementary grades) so that students from all backgrounds can see postsecondary education as a goal worth pursuing and high school as a stepping stone to get there.

As the foster parent of his two teenage brothers, Erik, 22, put his college education on «pause» to ensure his brothers «get the same opportunities that I had,» he said.

As for education, I plan to get into a great high school so I can go to my dream college, Morehouse College in Acollege, Morehouse College in ACollege in Atlanta.

When I looked up the records on the Colorado Education website I learned that the group of 44 graduates who got into college did not begin as 44 tenth graders two years earlier.

Ask them what the purpose of education is, and you'll likely get answers such as, «master the basics... prepare students for work... raise test scores... improve graduation rates... encourage life long learning... get more into college,» and the list goes on.

Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, whose blog gets as many as 800,000 hits a month has highlighted the courageous stand taken by a number of college and university deans at schools of education in Connecticut.

«The day Cathie Black was appointed, I was hearing from insiders that people were planning on getting out as quickly as they could,» said Aaron Pallas, a professor of sociology and education at Columbia University's Teachers College.

I would hope to see states get more ambitious as they go from plans to action, building high - quality pathways from high school into postsecondary education, standards and assessments aligned with the expectations of entry into college and the workforce, supports for struggling schools that go beyond general assistance, and strategies to help traditionally underperforming student populations close gaps to reach the promise of college and career readiness for all.

As for middle class kids getting great educations... way does ACT report 75 % of incoming college freshmen aren't prepared for college?

We, as a country, got into the business (and it IS a business) of thinking that the purpose of K - 12 education is to make graduates «college and career ready» instead of seeing learning as the means of personal fulfillment and growth or education as the means of creating an informed citizenry necessary for a functioning democracy.

Without identifying everyone by name, in addition to me there was a man who worked for the college board, a former staff member who is now a public school parent, a current high school principal of an «A» rated school who was going to host Matt and Elisa at her school later that day, a school leader from a school that is featured as a «miracle» public school in Wendy Kopp's last book, and which gets mentioned at fundraiser events, a 1990 alum who has been teaching for 22 years, and a former TFA staff member who now works for the New York City Department of Education.

«As a rising senior in college, interested in transformative education but oblivious to the extensive practical opportunities, I looked to the STF program for answers — and I got them!

Much as the schools needed this extra money, and some students need even more, Brown can't be remembered as the Education Governor while shorting the state's four - year colleges and universities (we'll get to that in a few weeks), which also are educating large numbers of disadvantaged students.

If we become a country that rejects facts and analyses that do not support our political positions, sees research independently conducted and reviewed as dangerous, treats public education as only one — and one of the least desirable — ways to educate our children, makes it even harder than it is now for poor and minority children to get a college education, then, in my view, our days are numbered.

And you can believe that graduates of traditional teacher education programs (who spend 4 to 5 years studying their content area, pedagogy, learning theories, child development, and gaining experience in school classrooms working with actual students and practicing teachers) aren't as «good» as the graduates of elite colleges and universities (who didn't major in education and only get a few weeks of training before entering the classroom.)

In the current education system students do not get time to solve their assignment as they are involved in so many different kinds of activities in colleges and schools.

I wasn't raised to take charge... there was the unspoken assumption that as a strong student, I should get a college education, but no expectation that I should plan for a career, or for taking care of myself.

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Getting a college education is a good investment as well.

As a college student, your number one priority should be getting the education you are paying for so that you can be well prepared for a job upon graduation.

For decades, community colleges got a bad rap as a second - class education meant for those who couldn't afford or who couldn't meet the high academic requirements of more traditional universities.Now that reputation is changing as cultural norms about post-secondary education start to shift.

For decades, community colleges got a bad rap as a second - class education meant for those who couldn't afford or who couldn't meet the high academic requirements of more traditional universities.

As your children get older, the need for funding for college education will present itself.

If you are starting your college education and have not established enough credit, having a creditworthy cosigner will increase the chance of you getting approved for a loan with a lower interest rate since you will be seen as a lower - risk borrower.

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