Sentences with phrase «lives than graduates»

At a minimum, we can encourage young people to stay in school, since high school dropouts are far more likely to struggle economically throughout their lives than graduates.

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Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

Zuckerberg encouraged the graduates to find a purpose in life that was greater than themselves to effect change in their communities.

Our recent survey of more than 1,500 young U.S. business school students and graduates finds that both men and women count on having flexible careers that provide room for life outside of the office.

McRaven, whose address to graduates at the University of Texas at Austin has been viewed more than 10 million times, shares 10 principles for living a better life.

While the monthly payment may be more cost - effective than a standard or graduated repayment plan, borrowers may pay more over the life of the loan in interest accrual.

You will pay more over the life of your loan than on the 10 - year Standard Repayment, 10 - year Graduated Repayment, or 25 - year Extended Standard Repayment plan.

The graduates who go forth each year are more skilled in consoling the dying than in converting the living.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Williams graduated from Grambling in 1977 and has maintained close ties to the school and to its living icon, Eddie Robinson, who has won more games, 405, than any other college coach.

I have graduated from college and graduate school but have yet to nail down gainful employment making more than I do now to be able to plan a life without him.

After studying the life pathways of KIPP graduates, Levin found that the ones with grit and resilience fared better than the more academically gifted.

Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has lived in Miami for more than 17 years and is bilingual English / Spanish and a graduate from the prestigious International Maternity and Parenting Institute alongside being CPR certified.

All states also have laws that allow minors to consent for care if they're emancipated, living apart from their parents, pregnant, high school graduates, or older than a certain age.

Less than 1 percent of the apartments listed on the real estate website are affordable to a new graduate who wants to live alone with a average salary of $ 51,000, which is currently the national average for recent graduates, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

The state would cover two years of loan payments for graduates of New York State colleges who make less than $ 50,000 a year, continue to live in the state and are enrolled in the federal Pay as You Earn program.

The grant - holder salaries are meagre, being less than those of any other graduate worker (see figure) and unless a student lives with his or her family it is difficult to survive.

Establish a minority support group or other cultural outlets, since some minority graduate students drop out of graduate school because of dissatisfaction with the social life rather than the intellectual environment.

Here's the result that has gotten the most press: Academic research careers were less popular with the late cohorts than the early ones in all disciplines, suggesting, perhaps, that graduate students are disillusioned by exposure to the lives and careers of their faculty advisers.

Before the agents pounded on his door and turned his life upside down, Xi oversaw a team of 10 graduate students, one undergraduate, three postdocs, and two non — tenure - track faculty at Temple and received more than a million dollars a year in research funding.

Kate Stoll, an NSF - based AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, said, «We know that graduate education affects graduate students and their lives more than anybody else, so we want to create more opportunities for them to reach out to us.»

But more often than not, «work is partitioned off into silos but the staff doesn't have to deeply collaborate or rely on team members for success,» says Steven Casper, Henry E. Riggs Professor of Management and associate dean for faculty development of the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (KGI).

But the facility still employs many graduates — a lot of whom would rather live in a broom closet on campus than move on.

African Americans are more likely than whites to believe eating a poor diet in childhood (55 % to 42 %), not getting vaccinations as a child (54 % to 43 %), living in poverty in childhood (47 % to 31 %), not graduating from high school (46 % to 26 %), and being born premature or underweight (34 % to 20 %) are extremely important.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

Inspired by the rescue of more than 30 Chilean miners in 2010, a team of university graduates in Chile has developed a potentially life - saving jacket to be worn by miners deep underground.

«David has chosen to devote his life to the animals and plants of the Amazon,» notes Redford, who has known Oren since they were graduate students together more than two decades ago at Harvard.

Unlike our undergraduate years, where friends and associates came from all walks of life and disciplines and, more often than not, you've lived around these random people for a year or two, graduate studies seem to require a special kind of isolation.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

Whether you are (or you've got) a recent high school graduate, about to enter post-grad «real world» life, or just now care a heckuvah lot more about your personal finances than ever before, you need a checking and savings account.

I've been doing crosswords rather than sudokus... the life of unemployed graduates ey?x

Your life after graduating from college was a little different than most.

More than likely, he's graduated from the playboy stage and is ready to share his life with the right woman.

Now, as the online community is introduced to consumers much earlier in life than even just five years ago, we see kids graduating from MySpace to the very casual dating and down market hook - up sites, then up to Match.com and finally to Perfectmatch and eHarmony.

A graduate of Yale with more connections than capital, Carraway comes to New York in 1922 to work in the bond market and ends up by chance living in a humble cottage next door to Gatsby's huge baronial establishment in fictional West Egg, the nouveau riche enclave on Long Island.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

Only about 4 percent of U.S. students go to colleges that accept less than 25 percent of their applicants, and most American kids either don't attend or don't graduate from four - year colleges, says developmental psychologist Richard Weissbourd, who studies the social and emotional lives of teens.

By the final time span, living with a single parent all three years between ages 14 and 16, rather than none, was associated with reduced probability of graduating from college of 16.6 percentage points compared to a reduction of 8.1 percentage points in the first period.

Perhaps most intriguingly, MDRC found that the young men who years earlier had graduated from a career academy were 33 percent more likely to be married, and living with their spouse, than their peers in a control group.

With the nation's economic recovery seemingly stuck in low gear, the need to better understand the link between learning and a career seems more critical than ever for high school students preparing to graduate and enter the next phase of their lives.

During the 1980s, the likelihood of graduating from college was 8 percentage points less among those who had lived in single - parent families than their peers with two - parent families.

Yet, with all of these obstacles, Match's graduates «had to adjust to the [college] model rather than the model adjusting to their complicated lives,» Hill said.

A sophisticated evaluation by MDRC found that young men who had graduated from a career academy were 33 percent more likely to be married and living with their spouses than selected peers in a control group.

«This is a small teacher education program with very high - quality graduates, who are staying longer than the norm and making a difference in the lives of kids.

A 1993 book, «Genius Revisited: High IQ Children Grown Up,» which tracked 20 years of graduates, concluded that Hunter alumni were no different than similar students, their life results mapping onto a normal bell curve.

Parental Involvment Still Important for High Schoolers The Pitt News, 11/23/2014 «The research team, which consists of Wang, Tara Hofkens, a graduate researcher in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center, and [Professor] Nancy E. Hill, a professor of education at Harvard University, asked more than 1,400 families in the Eastern region of the United States about how involved the parents were in the school lives of their teenagers.»

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate and entrepreneur knew that to make a sustained impact in the learning lives of young people he needed more connection than a few hours each week.

Students who graduate from high school live longer, healthier, and more productive lives than their peers who do not.

Rather than looking to emulate the English model of the 1990s, the U.S. might instead consider emulating some key features of the modern English system that have helped moderate the impact of rising tuition, such as deferring all tuition fees until after graduation, increasing students» ability to cover living expenses, and automatically enrolling all graduates in an income - contingent loan repayment system that minimizes both paperwork hassle and the risk of default.

Rather than looking to emulate the English model of the 1990s, the U.S. might instead consider emulating some key features of the modern English system that have helped moderate the impact of rising tuition, such as deferring all tuition fees until after graduation, increasing liquidity available to students to cover living expenses, and automatically enrolling all graduates in an income - contingent loan repayment system that minimizes both paperwork hassle and the risk of default.