Sentences with phrase «largest high school before»

Young eventually rose to become principal of the system's largest high school before being named assistant superintendent in 1887.

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Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

Everywhere I've lived before — save a few apartments I stayed in right out of high school — I've pretty much always had a large area for gardening.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

Ruth Bang, an SU freshman, graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School only months before it became the site of one of the largest school shootings in United States hiSchool only months before it became the site of one of the largest school shootings in United States hischool shootings in United States history.

If the latest push for tighter gun restrictions has any better chance of success than the ones that came before, it is in large part a result of the fierce lobbying effort by the student advocates, including those from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of this month's mass shooting.

Her own research interest is immigration and domestic violence; Kupchik's project, at a high school with a large population of Mexican immigrants, offered her an opportunity «to go into the high school and look at a population I had not really focused on before,» she says.

Public high school students in large U.S. cities are more likely to drop out than ever before.

To repeat: The «college preparation gap» is larger now than in 1992 even though the college preparedness rate has remained relatively flat, due to the fact that the proportion of recent high school graduates enrolling in college rose sharply between 1994 and 2009 — from 61 percent to 70 percent — before easing back down to 66 percent in 2013.

Friday Night Lights is a film about high school football in Texas in which student athletes compete on Friday nights before large crowds.

25 percent: That is the alarmingly large number of American high school students who quit before earning their diplomas.

Rates vary considerably by race, ethnicity, and social class, and large numbers of girls as well as boys leave school before earning a high school diploma (see Figure 3).

One of the schools was too large and impersonal; the second closed long before McKnight had earned enough credits to graduate, so school officials encouraged her to transfer to the third school, NET Charter High School, which, as part of its curriculum, offers online classes to students who have fallen bschool officials encouraged her to transfer to the third school, NET Charter High School, which, as part of its curriculum, offers online classes to students who have fallen bschool, NET Charter High School, which, as part of its curriculum, offers online classes to students who have fallen bSchool, which, as part of its curriculum, offers online classes to students who have fallen behind.

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouSchools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouschools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

School Mergers - The Mayor's policy would consolidate up to a dozen small schools into larger schools before the 2015 - 16 school year, but evidence shows that small schools have higher graduation rates and college enrolSchool Mergers - The Mayor's policy would consolidate up to a dozen small schools into larger schools before the 2015 - 16 school year, but evidence shows that small schools have higher graduation rates and college enrolschool year, but evidence shows that small schools have higher graduation rates and college enrollment.

The students, participants in Ivy Tech Community College's growing dual credit agreement program, will be part of the college's largest graduating class this month — two weeks before they receive their high school diplomas.

Expecting high schools to close possibly large gaps with only four years left before we want students to be ready for college and careers is a big gamble.

As an author and television journalist, Cheryl Wills ventured into the nation's largest public school system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New Yorkschool system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New YorkSchool in New York City.

Just before winning the Goldman Environmental Prize in April, we spoke to student activist Destiny Watford to learn how — together with student group Free Your Voice — she united her community to stop the nation's largest incinerator from breaking ground near her high school in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.

The iPad is a terribly expensive device for schools to purchase in large quantities and with a high quality, lower priced option available with a great app store behind it, I think that next year's survey of educator plans for mobile device purchasing will look drastically different than this year's survey, taken before Google Play for Education was even available.

The counterpart increase in the OR for mother antisocial behavior before end of high school was even larger, 3.6.

As a result, more states and localities will use the homelessness questions this year than ever before, generating the largest pool of data ever collected on high school students experiencing homelessness.