Sentences with phrase «get a college education on»

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Changing technologies and globalization have put a premium on completing a college education in order to get and keep higher - paying jobs, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Monday.

So if you need a way to finance your child's college education or your own retirement, using the equity in your house to get a home equity loan could be a better alternative in the long run to taking on more credit card debt.

This is the same type of pathetic commentary women on my college campus had to endure whenever the «SWAT Team for Christ» arrived to remind all the women that we were going to Hell for 1) daring to get an education and 2) because we weren't actively trying to find husband and bear children.

Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?

When you have a college education based on the self - serving incredulousfantasy of religion, you got ta expect a few problems

Their parents, who are determined to get a reliable return on the increasingly hefty investment of a college education, share and reinforce their fears.

Coach Dayak who has guided their youth career says, «it has been a pleasure and honor coaching these fine young women, they will always be a part of me and me of them, I can't wait to watch them continue on with their college careers and glad that their outstanding soccer abilities has help them get a college education and know that they can achieve whatever goal they set on or off the field.

And while many parents may focus on trying to save for their kids» college education, Chadd says parents like him have other concerns: «A child with autism typically may not got to college.»

Of course, when he does that he runs the risk that those programs don't get restored and, in this case, deserving students may lose out on a college education, which could drastically hurt their career opportunities.

Someone who leaves prison with a college degree has a real shot at a second lease on life because their education gives them the opportunity to get a job and avoid falling back into a cycle of crime.»

President Obama's planned trip to Buffalo, Syracuse and Binghamton will focus on the importance of getting an affordable college education.

Morgan Hook, a spokesman for SUNY Poly, said in a statement that the college's new president is «eager to quickly get SUNY Poly back on track by restoring the reputation of the Institute through a renewed commitment to research, education and transparency.»

«More than 150 colleges and universities got failing scores on an annual test of their financial stability by the U.S. Department of Education in results, released this year, that date from 2011,» The Hechinger Report article adds.

Exam results are often posted on bulletin boards in schools and colleges in India When Debarghya Das» friends approached him to obtain their final grades from the education board before the official announcement, he gave it a try and got nowhere.

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.

What's gone wrong at our colleges and universities — and how to get American higher education back on track

Instead of focusing on finding a husband, in 2013 we can go to college, date different people and get a kick ass education while we're at it.

Cherry Director and Screenwriter: Jeffrey Fine A college freshman gets a different kind of education when he falls for an older woman who has returned to school and her teenage daughter develops a crush on him.

To get a picture of changes to the pool of potential teachers, we merge institutional selectivity measures from the College Board with the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data on yearly changes over time in the college majors of graCollege Board with the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data on yearly changes over time in the college majors of gracollege majors of graduates.

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.

This past year, while a student in the Education Policy Management Program, Cotignola was also an intern with I'm First, a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C. that focuses on helping first - generation college students get to and through college.

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.

At Penn State, Burton began reflecting on his own education and became eager to help «minority kids get into college and stay there.»

More tellingly, the door has been opened for enthusiastic Trump appointees to get creative about pressing states to adopt school voucher programs, abstinence - only sex education, biologically - aligned locker rooms, curbs on PC - speech - restrictive policies on college campuses, and whatever else they can dream up.

In a spirited hearing on reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, 10 representatives of the United States Students Association, many of them low - income or at - risk students, detailed how federal aid had helped them get into college and how it had helped them stay there.

I got to the end of chapter eight, «This Is Not a Test,» and could discern only three reform ideas from Friedman: embark on an «all - hands - on - deck, no - holds - barred, no - budget - too - large crash program for science and engineering education»; make community college affordable for everyone; and scold parents into doing a better job.

But, before the eight states that have signed onto the NCATE vision get too far ahead of themselves, and before districts, colleges, or the U.S. Department of Education start jumping on this bandwagon, I sure hope everyone will take a deep breath and make sure they've got a vision to for making sure this well - intentioned effort has a happy ending.

He is concerned with the disparity between what one learns in schools and at college that is usable («use value»), and the rewards one actually gets from one's education, which is based on the credential («exchange value»).

Getting everyone on board Dominic Tester, assistant head teacher at Costello Technology College in Basingstoke and freelance education ICT consultant is well aware of this situation.

Excellent - there does seem to be a shift that's occurring in some colleges of education to include more training on virtual ed., but from what I've seen, it doesn't seem to be the norm across the board and lots of teachers need and want more training beyond what they're getting in their preservice education.

* The University of New Hampshire's high prices are an extreme example of rising college costs, Stateline reports: http://bit.ly/1PNC4Xj * New book accuses Education Dept. of fudging numbers on student - loan defaults, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: http://bit.ly/1PBlTSV * SUNY Poly expansions in Plattsburgh, Chautauqua County get $ 325 million in state budget proposal, The Albany...

This year, the special education students went on a few college trips, and teachers are told that they need to work with the students on college readiness skills, getting them ready to take the ACT.

Because fewer students passed the test than passed the previous high school exam, the Maryland Board of Education is now considering whether to lower the score needed to pass the test or to issue two different diplomas, one for students who pass the PARCC exam and are ready for college and one for students who get a lower score on the test.

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.

Halfon claimed that the majority of schools were too focussed on getting pupils to university, whereas every further education college he had visited deliver «state of the art» careers guidance.

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.

The first installment in this two - part series on competency - based education highlights several groups that are helping community colleges get direct - assessment learning programs off the ground.

«Oregon's higher education course placement agreements are a strong step forward in high school to college alignment, signaling to high school students that their hard work on the Smarter Balanced assessments and rigorous coursework in the 12th grade provide concrete benefits once they get to campus.»

This blog post examines ways education leaders in Oregon are working to address the problem of rural students struggling to get a head start on college while still in high school.

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.

Summary: This article reports on research done at the University of Missouri College of Education indicating that students who got attention from their teacher for bad behavior were more likely to engage in disruptive behavior in the future.

A 2008 report by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) evaluated the elementary education programs at 77 colleges and universities and found that «almost anyone» can get through the math requirements.

Nadya Miranda thought she had found a safe haven for her daughter: a Success Academy charter school in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, where she hoped her daughter would get a good education and be put on a path to college.

This session, we're demanding that families and community members get access to clear, user - friendly data on how well students are being prepared for college and career and pushing for the state to release an annual report on the education and skill levels required for the fastest growing jobs in our state.

Included in the document are fact sheets on statewide assessments, school grades, how high school students can get college credit in high school, in - state tuition, workforce education, developmental education and much, much more.

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.