Sentences with phrase «as high school graduation»

The chest in the dormer is an antique Indonesian dowry chest that my parents bought for me as a high school graduation gift.

That's no longer the case as career coaching is now an affordable service used for every career stage, starting as soon as high school graduation.

Chicago's Board of Education recently added computer science as a high school graduation requirement for all public schools in the city.

My friends, of course, refer to it as my high school graduation picture.

They certainly didn't receive an electric typewriter with correction tape from their parents as a high school graduation present.

If your RESP investments are primarily in equity - based mutual funds and ETFs, you'll want to start making some changes as high school graduation nears.

But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now... not so much.

The car was for my daughter as a high school graduation present, they even decorated it all with ribbon and a big «congrats» sign and everything!

As high school graduation rates have increased, the well - being of youth has improved in many other important ways.

Under NCLB, states were responsible for improving student proficiency in ELA and mathematics as well as high school graduation rates.

Furthermore, the API said nothing about other essential components of a successful school such as high school graduation rates, attendance, suspension rates, career and college readiness, and English learner progress.

And we see the pushback happening in community after community... High schools are organizing — they're organized in Providence, where they've got the superintendent of schools on their side, arguing with the state board of education... They're saying don't use a standardized test as a high school graduation requirement... The kids know more than the state [commissioner] does, because a standardized test by its design will fail a very significant number of kids.

However, most districts are opposed to adopting the A-G as a high school graduation requirement for all students.

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city's schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools.

It was the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) that required schools, for the first time, to report truancy data to the federal government, alongside annual test scores in reading and math, as well as high school graduation rates.

High School Promotion and Graduation Requirements (also available in Spanish) This fact sheet lists criteria for promotion from 9th, 10th, and 11th grades, as well as high school graduation requirements (credits and Regents exams).

Title: «Requiring a civics examination as a high school graduation requirement» Sponsors: Rep. Michael Moffett (R - Loudon), Senator John Reagan (District 17) Continue reading LSR 2100 requires a civics exam as a high school graduation requirement

States with particular high stakes policies such as high school graduation tests tend to place students with disabilities in more restrictive settings.

The article looks at alternatives to standardized tests as high school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessments.

In addition, the Federal District Court decision in the landmark Debra P. vs. Turlington (1981) case directed that students must be provided with ample opportunity to learn the material tested when high stakes, such as high school graduation, are in place.

For this year, they will not be used as a high school graduation requirement or in teacher evaluations.

But currently, Latino students lag behind white students in some key measures of educational attainment, such as high school graduation, enrollment in two - or four - year colleges, and college completion rates.

The General Educational Development certificate doesn't provide the same pathways to earnings or schooling as a high school graduation.

Attainment is typically measured by benchmarks such as high school graduation, college enrollment, persistence in college, and college graduation.

Since improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased learning and could come at the expense of other academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT and ACT performance, and the percentage of students attending college.

Wolf and his colleagues plan to study the program going forward, including adding more important outcomes such as high school graduation and college - going.

Education researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in tracking students» long - term outcomes, such as high school graduation, college enrollment, college graduation, and earnings in the labor market.

His research on the impact of Head Start on long - term outcomes such as high school graduation and college attendance was published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

I bought this as a high school graduation gift for my daughter.

In an address at the studios of public broadcaster WCNY, she talked about the successes the city saw in 2014, such as its high school graduation rate finally rising above 50 percent.

She is currently working to get other states to pass a similar legislation in addition to a law that requires CPR training as a high school graduation requirement.

Not exact matches

The majority of CoachUp's athletes range from grade school up through high school — a natural pyramid, as Fliegel points out, with the best athletes most likely to continue through high school graduation.

As only a few U.S. states mandate financial literacy classes before high school graduation, Henske...

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

«Whether you would like to join me or not, feel free to do as you see best,» Angela Hildenbrand said shortly before she prayed at the Medina Valley High School graduation in Castroville, according to CNN San Antonio affiliate KSAT.

Although I never met Brittanie Cecil, and I've never been to Columbus, Ohio, I can not begin to express the grief that wells up inside my heart whenever I see the school photograph of the little teenager, on the cusp of adolescence, her blonde hair pulled back into a ribbon, and her blue eyes sparkling at the prospect of all those summer pool parties, those early - fall hayrides, her prom, her high school graduation with the cap and gown sailing high into a sky as wide and full as her hopes and dreams.

Fortunately, as I headed towards high school graduation, my mom and I started to wander into the world of gluten - free baking, and we discovered this scone recipe.

Proceeds from the night benefited NvRAEF's educational and scholarship programs, such as ProStart, a national high school culinary and restaurant management program that teaches students the skills and knowledge needed to enter the workforce or to continue to postsecondary after high school graduation.

or some other high school senior type activity as I'm pretty sure he wasn't an early enrollee so we won't get to see him until after graduation.

My son's high school graduation last week was a sea of faces filled with a mix of joy, exhaustion, sadness and uncertainty — not just the 18 - year - olds but their parents as well.

I've come to think of getting married as more akin to college or high school graduation than a romantic gesture or the real - life fairtyale we're led to believe it will be.

At any point in our parenting journeys, we can reflect back on our early days as mothers or fathers and glow in the knowledge of how much we have changed since that... first positive pregnancy test... or our oldest child's birth... or a seemingly endless night of breastfeeding... or our struggle with learning how to do positive discipline... or the first day of school... or our daughter's first basketball win... or our son's first crush... or our child's high school graduation... or our daughter's wedding... or our son's first child...

This can be harder than you think since Mother's Day and Memorial Day occur around the same time as most high school graduations.

Florida high school students who can't pass the two state tests needed for graduation could find it harder to earn a diploma starting next year, as the state moves to change what other exams — and scores — can be used in their place.

Other policy - oriented scholars may be interested in socially engineering more invested fathers with an eye toward enhancing child outcomes, such as increased high school graduation rates.

Following graduation from Arlington High School in 1921, she attended Metropolitan Business School in Chicago and then began a long career as a legal secretary.

All this week, state and local law enforcement will increase patrols near high schools as part of a statewide campaign to limit the impacts of impaired and distracted driving as prom and graduation season approach.

Carranza also previously served as the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, where he raised graduation rates to historic highs.

«Under Mayor Miner's leadership and Colleen Deacon's assistance as Sen. Gillibrand's point person in the region, the infrastructure in our city is crumbling, there is decreased police presence on our streets, the poverty rate is skyrocketing, and the high school graduation rate hovers around 50 percent,» O'Connor said.

The leaders agreed to announce the deal early as a favor to Cuomo so he could attend his daughter's high - school graduation, Cuomo said.