Further, older students are more than twice as
likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.
Not exact matches
Our long experience with educating mathematical ecology
students provides some lessons that are
likely to be useful to potential
students who wish to compare training opportunities,
as well
as for
young independent researchers who are seeking an institution with which to affiliate themselves in order to develop their own interdisciplinary research and training programs.
A new study finds that
young adults under 25, including high school grads and college
students, are more
likely to rate hookah and e-cigarettes
as safer than cigarettes, when compared to 25 to 34 - year - olds.
Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when
students classified at a
young age
as having a speech or language disorder are less
likely than other
students to apply to charter schools.
Project U-Turn, a collaboration among foundations, parents,
young people, and youth - serving organizations such
as the school district and city agencies in Philadelphia, grew out of research that analyzed a variety of data sources in order to develop a clear picture of the nature of Philadelphia's dropout problem, get a deeper understanding of which
students were most
likely to drop out, and identify the early - warning signs that should alert teachers, school staff, and parents to the need for interventions.
Overall, low - income
students who attend private colleges are modestly more
likely to be economically successful
as young adults — 32 percent land in the top 20 percent of the income distribution, compared to 28 percent of low - income
students at public colleges.
«One of our key hypotheses is that early in high school, when
students are developmentally
younger, we might see more peer socialization
as the driving force behind adolescents» ethnic - racial identity development, but then
as students get older, we may see more selection processes, with
students being more
likely to befriend those who are more similar to them with respect to their sense of ethnic - racial identity,» said Umaña - Taylor.
Staffers visit kindergarten classrooms to identify children who, even at their
young age, are seen by their teachers
as likely future candidates for prison or early pregnancy (because the
students carry a great deal of family and social baggage and because, even
as five - year - olds, they are extremely hard to manage in the classroom).
Establishing these specific graduation targets is clearly an effective measure given that
young Hispanic
students are now half
as likely to drop out of high school
as they were 15 years ago.
Social - emotional learning programs improve the social skills and academic achievement of
students and can improve school climate by reducing violence, bullying, and other conduct problems.83 These skills are particularly important in early childhood education,
as students as young as kindergarten who have strong prosocial skills are more
likely to obtain a high school degree, college diploma, and full - time job when they reach adulthood.84
It showed that the
younger demographic of consumers in the 18 -29-year-old range — arguably some of those same teenagers and college
students who may have been reluctant digital readers at the beginning of the e-reader device surge — are three times more
likely than any other age range of adults to use an online source such
as social media or retailers» online storefronts to browse and discover new books to read.
As more college - age Millennials and recent grads enter the new - and used - vehicle market, they are expected to demonstrate less brand loyalty and more wariness of overspending than their forebears, and with good reason: Saddled with
student loans,
younger buyers are less
likely to make an aspirational purchase and more
likely to look for a competitive price on a reliable car.
Among
young households headed by a college graduate, those with
student debt are more
likely than non-
student debtors to have outstanding vehicle debt (43 % vs. 27 %), significantly more
likely to have credit card debt (60 % vs. 39 %), and just
as likely to have housing - related debt (56 %).
Without exception,
young student debtors are at least
as likely as young non-
student debtors to owe each type of debt, and they are often more
likely to have such debts.
Among
young households whose heads lack at least a bachelor's degree,
student debtors are more
likely than those without
student debt to owe on vehicle loans, credit card debt and other types of debt and are just
as likely to have a mortgage and other installment debt.
Student loan refinancing is most
likely the first major financial decision you've made
as a
young professional — and it was a smart one.
As a
student or
young adult renting your first apartment or townhouse, you are
likely just getting used to the idea of being out on your own.
Among the share of buyers who said saving for a down payment was the most difficult task, millennials were most
likely to cite
student debt (53 percent)
as the debt that delayed saving, while credit card debt was indicated more by Gen X (44 percent) and
younger boomers (36 percent).