Sentences with phrase «help kids in college»

GLMA members across the state of Georgia know what it means to help kids in College and Career Readiness Programs learn the critical thinking, information literacy, media literacy, and technology literacy skills they need for their future paths.

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I didn't ask enough of these questions and I got hooked up with someone who was more interested in selling me products than helping me and my family win in retirement and college planning for our kids.

It is the goal of many people to build enough wealth to put their kids through college, payoff their mortgage, be in a position to help thei...

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Haley Zink, a 21 - year - old community college student who helped to organize a «sibling march» in St. Louis, Missouri, had a message for those who think this movement is just a bunch of loud kids: «I want to it be clear to everyone that, no we are not.»

I'll be helping my kids choose colleges in the next few years.

Most kids will largely drop the risky accent in college, though in some cases it helps to maintain just enough to keep one's regional or ethnic ident ity.

Now, as a solo mom with 3 college kids and a busy legal career in Los Angeles, I am making my way back to my precious food memories in the late night hours with a little a lot of help from friends and family by authoring «Bake This Cake» and «Bake This Bread» in order to bring life to historic cake and bread recipes.

They've clearly helped out newlyweds, college kids, the newly single, etc., and are obviously held in high esteem.

As kids get closer to high school and college applications, many parents struggle with the idea of pushing their kid into every activity, AP class or sport in the hopes of helping them get ahead later in life.

For kids off to college, and if cooking is allowed in the dorm rooms, these ideas will help her feed herself healthy food and stay safe!

Hovering over kids may help them do better in high school, but college then ends up being a disaster.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

For the kids we've been talking about, the same persistence and character strength that get them through college are going to help them in whatever else they do.

The stories Hyman has selected beautifully illustrate the book's central theme: that too many organizations and individuals are putting making money well before the health and safety of kids playing sports, in the process essentially robbing them of their childhood and separating their parents from their hard - earned money, money that would, ninety - nine times out of a hundred, be better spent on a certificate of deposit to help defray their child's college tuition.

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Hardly seems worth the money to tie ourselves to a system that, at best, may help already college - bound kids attend marginally better colleges but will likely cause at - risk youths, English language learners and students with disabilities to fail in school in even greater numbers.

Charging that the city's current education system doesn't do enough for kids looking to bypass college in favor of careers as plumbers, electricians and carpenters, state Sen. Simcha Felder said a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo should help even the playing field.

Competing in an American Parliamentary Debate Association tournament late last month at Smith College, the Cardozo law student launched into an impassioned plea for the teaching of masturbation in sex - ed classes, outlining his plan to extend a helping hand to frustrated kids and touching on more general themes in the field («a friend of mine just got chlamydia,» he says in an aside at one point).

Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos (R - Long Island) and Sen. Martin Golden (R - Brooklyn) said they would not support expanding a proposed education investment tax credit to help fund scholarships for the college kids of illegal immigrants — a plan some saw as a compromise to the DREAM Act that was voted down in the Senate last week.

A cartoon that Biblical scholar Kristine Garroway taped up in her college dorm helps to explain kids» invisibility at ancient sites: Two men in business suits stare intently at an unidentifiable round...

A cartoon that Biblical scholar Kristine Garroway taped up in her college dorm helps to explain kids» invisibility at ancient sites: Two men in business suits stare intently at an unidentifiable round object sitting on a table.

It helped me stand in front of a room full of college kids and tell my story, knowing that how I look isn't detracting from what I'm trying to say.»

The core of that mush is Thomas (Callum Turner), a kid who just graduated from college and is trying to make his own way in the big apple — without the help of his affluent parents.

Some kids aren't thinking about college at all, and in those cases, parents should start talking generally about the importance of college - going in about ninth grade, helping kids develop a college identity and a pathway for work and career.

With the help of others, he founded Jumpstart, an organization that matches college students and youngsters in one - to - one sessions that help the kids charge up for learning.

So they were very interested in how does the College Board at once be reliable as a measure of excellence while also helping more kids and a more diverse population achieve that excellence.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Why not embrace models, including in the charter schools sector, that work overtime to help low - income kids make the transition from high school to college or career?

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 KTC team, as well as KIPP teachers and counselors, continues to work with the kids in high school, helping them apply for college and financial aid, and host a college application bootcamp for high school seniors.

As Tulsa's original college preparatory public school, KIPP Tulsa opened in 2005 with a simple yet powerful concept: to help kids from educationally underserved communities develop the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed in college and beyond.

At The Hechinger Report, we've written about dozens of attempts to get kids like my former students to and through college: microgrants, college counselors, programs to help students graduate in four years, community college guaranteed transfer programs, pushy moms, and investing in individual students like they're a promising stock option, to name a few.

Second, measuring and promoting this kind of learning would accomplish Obama's stated goal of helping make every kid college - and career - ready in ways that test prep simply doesn't.

Our schools have a longer school day and year, helping us keep our kids safe and engaged, ensure their success in core subject areas, and give them an immersive, well - balanced education that includes exposure to the arts, daily physical activity, and field trips to museums, performances, sporting events and, of course, college campuses.

Those kids were never put in more advanced classes that might help them get a better score on college entrance exams, or get into four - year universities or avoid taking remedial classes after high school.

The school hosts student teachers from Hunter, NYU, Teacher's College, and Bank Street College, meaning kids have the benefit of an extra adult to help out in class.

With more than 200 schools nationwide, KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) began in 1994 with a simple yet powerful concept: to help kids from educationally underserved communities develop the necessary knowledge and skills to succeed in college and beyond.

Without standards aligned to what kids need to succeed in college, career and life, and ample supports to help them get there, that chasm will grow even wider.

Canterbury School, a preK3 - 12 independent, college preparatory school in Fort Myers, FL, is offering classes designed to help parents feel comfortable with their kids» using mobile devices and other technology in school.

With help from the Early College partnership and the liaison efforts of IDRA, this approach has resulted in «most kids exceeding their own expectations and ours.»

6to16 was inspired by practitioners who demanded new tools and supports to help more first generation college going kids get to and succeed in college.

New Orleans educators are helping more kids over the finish line in high school and onto college campuses.

When I started working in LAUSD, right after my college graduation, I was excited to help the next generation of kids from my neighborhood.

Especially for families in poor and minority communities who have seen generations of outsiders bearing gifts that do little to help them, the ability to help their kids choose their way to educational heaven (as legendary Morehouse College President Benjamin Mays would say) is expected and demanded.

Ready to Code librarians help kids connect their interests to learning opportunities in college or to careers they may not have even considered, especially for youth from diverse backgrounds.»

One can't help feeling her pride as an author mother who not only earned enough income to put her three kids through college, but also inspired her sons to take up a writing career, early in life!

In Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges — and Find Themselves, Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist David L. Marcus follows Oyster Bay's class of 2008 as it prepares for college admissions.

This is a good thing because we rely on my income to help pay the bills (and very soon, we will also have two kids in college.

Whether you invest in your small business, save it towards a long - term goal like retirement, pay off hefty consumer debt or help your kids with their college education bills, doing so can speed up your journey down the road to financial independence.