Sentences with phrase «fewer years of schooling»

Young people raised in one - parent homes complete fewer years of schooling and are less likely to receive a B. A. degree

Now new research published in Education Next shows that by the age of 24, individuals who lived in single - parent families as adolescents have received fewer years of schooling and are less likely to attain a bachelor's degree than those from two - parent families.

These days, for example, marriage is more common among those with a bachelor's degree or more, who tend to earn more than those with fewer years of schooling.

Learning disabilities — such as being slow in reading and math — may go unnoticed until the first few years of school.

«When I was a kid I went to Kitty Hawk Elementary, and then when I showed up to work here I immediately remembered some of the ladies — these were ladies I watched retire in my first few years of school foodservice,» said Dodge.

It's in the news, when another study confirms that children from single - parent homes finish fewer years of school.

One promising practice from overseas is screening all kids at third or fourth grade — after they've had a few years of school — and directing special resources to the top scorers.

L earning to read is arguably the most important accomplishment of the first few years of schooling.

Research has shown that learning keyboarding in the first few years of schooling can benefit student's reading, comprehension, vocabulary and spelling skills.

The study tracked the students through the first few years of school, and then followed up with them after they had reached adulthood.

«In the first few years of a school choice program in Georgia I think you want to keep the amount of money that follows the child below $ 7,507 because it is difficult for public schools to reduce their costs more than that when a student leaves,» Scafidi said.

But Head Start's academic effects are slight — reduction of the gap by a few IQ points at the beginning of elementary school, which fades into nothing after a few years of school.

The more years children spend with no or minimal father involvement, the fewer years of school they complete.135

Not exact matches

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

Notably, many of her students are millennials who have worked for a few years and are back in school before returning to the workforce, Weiss explains.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

Gonzaga is the only private school among the Final Four teams this year, and that status makes it harder to track the details of coach Mark Few's compensation package.

A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Few of the people who apply to flying schools actually get in — Quebec schools, for instance, only train around 150 to 200 pilots a year, according to Service Canada.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

At CEIBS and other top business schools, few MBAs start businesses right out of school, but around a third do within 15 years, says entrepreneurship professor Rama Velamuri.

As a small business owner, you may think that hiring someone fresh out of college — maybe even fresh out of high school — could be a good change of pace for a position that normally requires a few years of experience.

Both hires go a long way in telegraphing the fact that the four - year - old Jack Welch Management Institute is one of the very few business schools that is run like a business, with a laser - like focus on customer service.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

A few years ago, Ragini Verma, an associate professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues identified differences in brain maps, or how regions connect.

While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

We talked for a few minutes about William's childhood (he dropped out of high school in Amsterdam at 15 to become a DJ), his past work experience (he was a party planner for years), and how he had heard about us (he attended Hustle Con last year).

The school credits its success to a suite of entrepreneurship programs and initiatives, many launched within the last few years.

«Any job where you get the majority of your training in school and the first few years of your career is not going to see much pay growth after that,» says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at PayScale.

Through the years, the Kelley School has fashioned a reputation as a true MBA innovator, from being one of the few programs that give a single grade for the entire core curriculum to having a series of first - year academies that provide experiential learning, consulting projects and coaching to students interested in six core areas that range from capital markets and strategic finance to consulting and supply chain management.

I would disagree with the sentiment that «Few people would not run a cost / benefit analysis of college or graduate school before spending years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars.»

Brandon Flowers of the band The Killers lived in Nephi for a few years and attended junior high school there.

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.'s and test scores, but we don't anymore, unless you're just a few years out of school.

«The last few years have been the most volatile for all of recorded history,» said Andrew Lo, professor of finance at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

«It may help a few districts get through the year, but many reports I've seen of schools welcoming the additional money have said they're still going to move forward with cuts.»

It was the 10 - year reunion for Scotlandville Magnet High School's Class of 1997 in Baton Rouge, La., and a few alumni were being singled out for professional distinction.

I then received my Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management a few years later.

A combination of a spendy lifestyle for a few years, putting both our kids through private schools and university debt free, supporting my parents for a few years, and some gifts to start our kids off in their first homes.

The Anderson School of Management report also issued a forecast for the Los Angeles housing market extending over the next few years.

Social Security sets out a few key rules for eligibility: The child must be unmarried, under the age of 18 or 19 years old, and in school no higher than grade 12.

Today, fewer than half of high - scoring students from low - income families even enroll at four - year schools.

«Because of the recent events, not just this year but even the last few years, all school districts I think are forced to be prepared for that,» Daggett says.

Even over a period of a few years, the market can show about as much maturity as a middle school lunchroom, complete with pubescent gossip and inane popularity contests.

Adding to a 529 plan in the later high school years means fewer years of tax - free growth.

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

A few years ago, a pair of high school friends that went by the collective name of the Neptunes mixed their way onto the popular music scene and became superstars along the way.

After a brief stint at Woman's College in North Carolina and a few years teaching «social ethics» at the Hartford Seminary, the relentless clacking of Berger's typewriter earned him a return ticket to the New School in 1963.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.