Sentences with phrase «country are ready for college»

I recently attended a national conference where hundreds of educators, parents, policy makers, and community leaders gathered to discuss innovative ways to ensure that high school students in this country are ready for college, work and life.

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I'm a caring fun loving easygoing country boy out of college boy getting use to city living tired of messing around with girls and am ready for a real woman

Report: 41 % of Delaware Graduates Not Ready for College (The News Journal) Bob Schwartz comments how to better prepare young people for the economy our country is moving into.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

Schools are changing in response to this reality, and in Transforming Schools Using Project - Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards, Bob Lenz, Justin Wells, and Sally Kingston draw on the example of the Envision Education schools, as well as other leading schools around the country, to show how the concept of deeper learning can meet the need for students who are both college and career ready and engaged in their own education.

ACT said that of the 1.2 million students throughout the country who took its tests this year, only 22 percent were ready for college - level work in English, mathematics, and science.

And throughout this country, these families are often not informed about their options for preparing their kids for success in school and in life, including opportunities to take Advanced Placement courses or participate in the growing number of dual - credit programs that allow them to take community college courses that they can use for getting ready for the rigors of higher education.

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 democracIS 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 democracis 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.

These standards represent a unified set of expectations across the country of what academic content knowledge and skills are required for students to be ready for credit - bearing college courses and careers.