Sentences with phrase «graduate school credit»

The dean ultimately allowed the candidate to proceed without having passed his comps; and, moreover, seems to have forgiven a failure by the candidate to rack up enough graduate school credits to meet the faculty's requirements.

Not exact matches

He dropped in and out of school — never graduating despite having well over 100 credits.

One of The Foundling's recent graduates, Allen, had only a high school degree and a few college credits; he certainly did not have your typical computer engineering resume.

If your teen is not graduating because of lack of credits, is there a summer school course he can take that will allow him to walk with his class?

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Classes that he took at Harvard Extension School while growing up in the Boston suburbs translated into college credits, and he graduated from Berklee College of Music in just two - and - a-half years, his mother said.

It retains the historic tax credit, which was used to restore the Hotel Syracuse, it no longer taxes the tuition waivers that some graduate students use to pay for school and it allows taxpayers some flexibility on whether they want to deduct their state income, sales or property taxes - capped at $ 10,000.

Cathie Black another example, a bachelor's degree in English, former advertising and media mogul, appointed to be the NYC Schools Chancellor lacks credits, coursework, relevant graduate degrees and professional experiences in public education yet she is suppose to lead the largest public school system in the nation.

Students who graduate from the Queensbury - based community college can now transfer a maximum of 66 credit hours to Siena College, a four - year school in Loudonville.

Local school districts prefer to analyze their August graduation rates, which include students who were unable to graduate with most of their peers in June but made up the necessary credits over the summer.

She graduated from high school with 2 years of college credits.

The implication is that students who are able to transfer all or most of their community college credits are more likely to graduate than peers who started their postsecondary education at a four - year school.

A college dropout, Shoemaker credits Weiss with getting him into graduate school at MIT without an undergraduate degree.

The course, Geology of the Moon (ERTH 580 - 50), offers MSU graduate credits in earth science for middle school teachers.

A graduate of NYU's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in Theater, the emerging ingénue's TV credits include guest starring roles on such shows as «CSI: NY,» «CSI: Miami,» and «Numbers.»

Carbone, a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with several cinematographic credits to his name, also knows how to shoot pretty pictures.

The locale gets Mom thinking... perhaps it's time to go back to school herself and get those last credits she needed to graduate with a degree in archaeology.

Currently, high school graduates can use federal student aid money to pay for up to 30 credits of remedial coursework, so long as it is part of a degree - granting program.

The pressure to inflate grades, bogus credit - recovery courses, and plain - old D.C. - style fraud don't happen just because school districts are under pressure to graduate students, contends Greene.

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If they earn enough credits to graduate before the school year is over, the services coordinator steers them to mentorships, trade training, or jobs.

These students were also more likely to accumulate significantly more math credits and to graduate from high school on time.

They score higher on the 10th - grade math exam, are more likely to graduate from high school on time, and accumulate more math credits, including in subjects beyond a 10th - grade level.

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Robert Foster, of rural Caldwell, Idaho, added online courses to his high school schedule to make up for missing credits and graduate on time.

Ninety percent of the students at the school are Latino, 73 percent qualify for subsidized lunch, and 65 percent arrived lacking credits they would need to graduate on time.

They had failed one or more grades in elementary or middle school and were way behind in accumulating the 44 high school credits they needed to graduate.»

CFA students wind up with 15 college credits, on average, before completing high school, versus 4.5 credits for students who go the standard community - college route; of nine students in the CFA pilot program, six are on track to graduate high school next year already having earned associate's degrees.

He also credits his daughter's success in college — she graduated cum laude from the University of Florida — to her online schooling, where he says she learned to be independent and more responsible for her learning.

High schoolers can graduate after 11th grade — most of them have enough credits, and 10 to 20 percent do leave early — or they can devote 12th grade to individually designed post-post-AP classes and a senior project.

Or look at Niobrara County's Wyoming Virtual Academy, which receives a high number of high school transfer students who are behind in credits and not on track to graduate.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

Tessa Beaver was way behind in credits when she came to Centerpoint Alternative High School in Caldwell, Idaho, but graduated early by supplementing her regular class schedule with online courses.

This question is for Representative Patrick Garofalo — how many credits are needed to successfully graduate high school?

Each year, thousands of high school graduates arrive on university campuses already having earned college credit through their AP classes.

But they did not complete more credits and were no more (or less) likely to graduate from high school or enroll in college.

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.

In the past two years, more than 95 percent of Hidalgo students completed high school, and, starting with the class of 2010, students can earn enough college credits to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate's degree.

In addition, some students graduate in three years or earn a year of college credit while still in high school because eight credits can be earned each school year.

At most universities, according to Jennifer Husbands, founding director of the HTH Graduate School of Education (GSE), one unit or credit equals 10 or 15 hours of class time and 5 hours of independent work.

But in just a few years, the high school's dropout rate has decreased by over half, and both student engagement and the number of students who receive college credit before they graduate have increased.

The Common Core site also states that «these standards define the knowledge and skills students should have within their K - 12 education careers so that they will graduate high school able to succeed in entry - level, credit - bearing academic college courses and in workforce training programs.

This year's 11th graders are the first subject to new state rules requiring students to score well on new state tests to graduate, beyond earning credits and strong grades in their schools.

Supporters can credit the voucher program with improved reading scores and high school graduation rates: 82 percent of students offered a voucher graduated from high school, compared with 70 percent of those who lost the lottery.

For example, many California alternative schools exist specifically to serve students who are behind on credits, and thus are unlikely to graduate within four years.

A reporting project by a group of students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism tackled some of the nuances of the debate, looking at a range of schools from those clearly gaming the system (much to the frustration of teachers) to those that reflect the ideals behind credit recovery.

Q Can NISL programs be used as credits for graduate school degrees?

McDaniel College, Montgomery County Education Association (MCEA), and Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), through the Office of Human Resources and Development, partner to offer a five course, 15 - credit graduate certificate program in Equity and Excellence in Education.

Using data from the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship program, we find that low - income Florida students who attended private schools using an FTC scholarship enrolled in and graduated from Florida colleges at a higher rate than their public school counterparts.

Well - known blogger Joanne Jacobs, for one, is skeptical that credit recovery can motivate students who've failed before: «I see potential for a game of let's pretend: Students pretend they've learned, online providers pretend they've taught and schools pretend all their graduates have a high school education.»