Sentences with phrase «completing high school he studied»

Gov. Michael F. Easley has proposed an expansion of a state program that allows North Carolina students to take college courses, and even earn associate's degrees, while completing their high school studies.

His journey to reaching this goal was indirect: After completing high school he studied fashion, immediately hated it, and a year later enrolled in a fine - art degree.

Not exact matches

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

He subsequently made up his high school deficiencies while studying architecture at New York University, but before he completed his degree at NYU he got a fellowship and went to the Ecole des Beaux - Arts in Paris.

«We found that study participants were more apt to engage in transactional sex — the exchange of sex for drugs or money — if they did not complete high school and if their neighbors did not complete high school,» said the study's lead - author, Robin C. Stevens, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director of the Health Equity & Media Lab.

In the study, 138 junior and senior high school cheerleaders with concussions underwent pre-season baseline neurocognitive testing and completed at least one follow - up evaluation within 7 days of injury using Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT).

In the new UCSF study, the researchers examined survey data from middle and high school students who completed the National Youth Tobacco Survey in 2011 and 2012.

For the study, 157 public high school principals in Indiana completed an anonymous online survey.

Doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health have completed a study to determine the relationship between diet and hypertension (high blood pressure).

Studying my soul away, graduating from high school and completing my final exams hasn't left a lot of time for baking, blogging and social media - ing.

These intangible middle class advantages include such things as a computer with internet access at home, a quiet place to study and complete homework, working parent (s) above the poverty line, no pressure to get a low - level job in high school to help pay the rent or support the family, and no fear of the streets upon which they live.

NOVA crafted a program that supports high school students as they complete their studies, and sticks with them through community college.

IB seniors at South Side take the same Theory of Knowledge exam as their cohorts at Flathead High School, in Kalispell, Montana, and Menntaskólinn vid Hamrahlid, in Reykjavik, Iceland — but along the way the three classes may study altogether different texts and complete wildly diverse assignments.

Nationally, 40 percent of undocumented adults ages 18 to 24 did not complete high school, according to Gonzales» current longitudinal study of about 2,700 undocumented youth, the National UnDACAmented Research Project (NURP), which is investigating how DACA affects this group.

The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families who used vouchers to go to Catholic schools were much more likely to complete high school within four years than similar students who were in the city's public schools.

In this study we use data from Chicago and Florida to estimate the effects of attending a charter high school on the likelihood that a student will complete high school and attend college.

In a report summarizing the study upon which its recommendations are based, the Citizens» Council for Ohio Schools notes that fewer than half of the Ohio students who completed high - school vocational programs in 1982 found jobs in the field in which they trained.

Using the most conservative 4 % voucher advantage from our study, that means that the 801 students in ninth grade in the voucher program in 2006 included 32 extra graduates who wouldn't have completed high school and gone to college if they had instead been required to attend MPS.

A third of high school graduates in 2005 did not complete a standard curriculum, which includes four credits of English and three credits each of social studies, math, and science.

And before they receive their high school diploma, students must complete separate performance assessments (known at the Urban Academy as academic proficiencies) that demonstrate their skills and knowledge in six academic areas: mathematics, social studies, science, creative arts, criticism, and literature.

Studies conducted over the past several years have repeatedly demonstrated that far fewer American students are completing high school with diplomas than had previously been realized.

The authors recommended that a condition for receipt of a high school diploma be that students complete four years of English and three years of mathematics, science, and social studies, and many states complied.

A recent study showed that when students have a more engaging teacher, their attendance increases and their chances of completing high school improve.

On this score, the fact that the share of private school high school students completing the Josephson Institute's study (more than 15 %, according to these tables) is roughly double the share of American high school students actually enrolled in private high schools provides ample reason to be skeptical.

In my last year in office, we initiated the next steps of middle - school reform by requiring students to complete three credits each in language arts, math, science, and social studies before they move to high school.

Our children, at a very minimum, must complete a full high school course of study.

Through a series of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies completed in New Jersey and other states since 2011, my colleagues and I have begun the process of demonstrating the predictive accuracy of family and community demographic variables in Grades 3 - 8, and high school

This study investigated the relationships between completing the high school portion of a college - and career - preparatory program of study and high school achievement outcomes in a large urban district in the West.

And while I am the first to say we need better data and analysis in Oakland, according to the latest Oakland Achieves study, 95 percent of African - American charter high schoolers completed the A-G requirements, which is a higher rate than White students districtwide.

In that case Jepsen and Malloy used public funds to come to the defense of Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, when Pryor decided that while the law required that Paul Vallas could only stay on as the head of Bridgeport's school system if he completed a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education, Pryor would allow Vallas to stay if he only took a three - credit independent study class instead.

After graduating from high school, he completed a yearlong studied abroad program in French language and history in Paris, France and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with a minor in education at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB.)

After studying tens of thousands of Texas students who completed college courses in high school, this research found that these students attended and completed college within the state at much higher rates than students with similar backgrounds who did not take college courses in high school.

In another study by Hicks et al. (2004), 158 high school social studies teachers completed a survey examining the extent to which they used web - based primary sources in their teaching.

Overview This study mission for state policymakers focused on how policies can strengthen the alignment of expectations and resources across the educational pipeline so that young people complete high school prepared to succeed in a range of postsecondary education opportunities.

Drew is a 2003 graduate of Nitro High School, a 2008 Graduate of Concord University where he majored in Social Studies and Special Education, as well as completing four years of collegiate baseball, and a 2010 graduate of Marshall University with a Masters Degree in Leadership Studies.

This research study from the Urban Institute examines the impact of Accelerating Opportunity (AO), an initiative that enables learners to complete high school equivalency programs while simultaneously working toward an industry credential.

In our study, 84 percent of CSFB alumni were enrolled in some type of college five to 10 years after completing eighth grade, 2 percent were still in high school, 1 percent entered the military, and 14 percent did not attend college immediately after graduation.

What follows is a tightly designed course of study that allows undergraduates to complete a rigorous major in mathematics or one of the sciences while embarking on a set of clinical experiences with middle or high school students.

Doubet completed her master's degree in education and doctorate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Virginia, where she worked closely with Carol Tomlinson and studied the effect of differentiated instruction on student performance in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

The next step is to complete a school funding study like many high performing states have done.

15 Marguerite Spencer, a Professor at University of St. Thomas, finds children studying in integrated schools have «[a] higher level of parental involvement, higher graduation rates, complete more years of education, earn higher degrees and major in more varied disciplines, gain greater access to professional jobs and have higher incomes 16.

For instance, the academic intensity of a student's high school curriculum is one of the most important components in predicting whether a student will succeed in college, so a state may choose to focus one of its goals on students completing a college - and career - ready course of study.

(Calif.) Students enrolled in linked learning programs over the past four years outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms when it came to earning high school credits and completing advanced college readiness courses, according to a new study released Tuesday.

For instance, high school graduation and the attainment of a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED) indicate that students have completed a course of study that should enable them to enroll in college and / or start a career.

Why not graduate high school with college hours already completed so they can study in their career field even sooner?

It is the policy of the Chicago Public Schools to recognize and grant credit for high school studies completed elsewhere on a year - by - year equivalent basis.

Many traditional high schools and private schools also grade themselves by calculating the number of their graduates accepted into colleges — but then rarely follow up to ensure that those students even enroll in their freshman year of college, let alone complete their studies to earn degrees.

The emphasis should be not on remediation but on preparing students to complete high school and on preparing students to enter college ready to pursue a chosen course of study.

How much should we rejoice in more teenagers graduating from high school, when some of them have most certainly completed a watered - down course of study?»

Both national longitudinal studies reach similar conclusions: «The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree» (p. xviii).