Sentences with phrase «little success in college»

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Pressures begin to weigh in on her shortly after graduating from college, stuck in a joyless job, with a roommate (Garofalo, Romy and Michele) that has an ever - increasing set of emotional baggage, and a misanthropic new addition to the apartment in the form of Troy (Hawke, Mystery Date), the guy with the 180 IQ and little success to really show for it.

A growing body of research suggests that college remediation programs — meant to bolster the skills of students deemed underprepared for the rigors of postsecondary study — seem to make very little positive difference to students, and may even have a negative effect on overall success in college.

«The strategy of a quick tour in high school through all the major areas covered by college physics courses bears little relation to future success,» Sadler noted.

I love hearing what makes the Scholars tick — the questions they have about their homework, the stories they tell about the previous day's bus ride, their excitement over a good grade or accomplishment, their desire to do their best, their frustrations, their hopes — it all comes out in the little conversations I have with them every time I am at the College Success Academy.

Melissa Fries is executive director of CAP, a college success program in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps students complete their college degrees as quickly and with as little debt as possible.

«While there is little that we can do locally to stop Lansing from setting up districts to fail by establishing a definition of college readiness and then measuring success in a way that does not do justice to that definition, we can control how we interpret such data and establish ways of more effectively judging the college readiness of our students.»

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