Sentences with phrase «local graduating high»

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Perhaps a good place to start is by focusing on 10 students in your local high school, with the goal of increasing their chances of graduating.

Are the graduates coming out of local high schools and colleges prepared to work in a technology - based economy?

A graduate of Davidson College, Steve was first bitten by the media bug in high school while working as a freelance writer for the local newspaper.

My son has just graduated from high school and will be going to a local college in the fall.

When my eldest daughter (a recent High School graduate) attended the local elementary school, there was a small rose garden near the front entrance.

Born in Orchard Place, Ill., Mrs. Grandt graduated from Arlington High School in Arlington Heights and worked as a secretary for a local construction company before she became a homemaker.

The Board of Regents today adopted regulations to expand the criteria under which students with disabilities may be eligible to graduate high school with a local diploma.

So they passed over Will Yandik, a relative moderate whose family farm went back several generations and who had graduated from a local high school before getting bachelor's and master's degrees in the Ivy League.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

As the campaign draws to a close, Derrick has increasingly highlighted his local credentials, introducing himself as the son of a SUNY Plattsburgh professor and as a Plattsburgh High graduate.

A graduate of Irion's UCSC program, Chang worked at local newspapers during high school and college, so «I already knew I was a good writer,» he says.

After graduating high school, Pray enrolled in a bioinformatics course at the local community college.

Its activities include assisting undergraduates with the graduate admissions process, mentoring local high school students, connecting black graduate students with faculty of color, as well as several social activities, including bowling, barbeques, and an annual formal with alumni.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - led research also suggests that employing local community health educators instead of more formally educated nurses to counsel young at - risk mothers could be cost effective and provide badly needed jobs to high school graduates from the same impoverished communities.

NUS awards Research Scholarships to outstanding local and international graduates for research leading to a higher degree at the University.

Three Waggoner Center graduate students provide evidence - based, harm reduction education to local middle - and high - school students.

Researchers included students with post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate status, and even some assistance by a local high school junior.

I did Lauren's first gynecological exam and Pap smear when she was seventeen, and I can't help think about how she graduated in the top tenth percentile of her high school, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and received a full scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, but ended up attending the local city college so she wouldn't leave her single mom alone.

Baywatch: Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon (Dwayne Johnson, a graduate of Bethlehem's Freedom High School) and his new colleague (Zac Efron) must stop a local crime ring.

It begins in a small town in Texas, where Grace (Selena Gomez) works as a waitress at a local diner with her best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) and is about to graduate from high school.

After graduating from high school in Overland Park, Kan., Sudeikis attended a local junior college on a basketball scholarship.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school model.

Its graduates won scholarships to top local private high schools and to several of the country's elite prep schools.

Most High School Seniors Aren't College or Career Ready, says «Nation's Report Card» NPR Ed, 4/27/16» «In our era of incredibly volatile state and local testing practices, it is our North Star,» says Andrew Ho, a measurement expert at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who sits on NAEP's bipartisan governing board.»

In Louisiana, you can take a welding course from a local professional certification and training center so that you can graduate with a high school diploma and a professional certificate.

Despite graduating in the top of his class, his high school guidance counselor told him that the local city college was his only realistic option.

After graduating, Johnson returned to the police force and introduced his project to several local high schools through afterschool programs.

What initiatives are you working on to ensure high school graduates have the skills to enter local universities and succeed in the modern workplace?

The Ministry acknowledges that employers seek graduates with higher - order skills like critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, entrepreneurship, as well as the ability to be financially literate and to participate in their local community through active citizenship and civic engagement.

I'm also a mother of two - one in college, who graduated from a public high school, and another just starting at our local public high school.

In Detroit schools, only 25 % of students graduate high school, and out of those who graduate only half have basic literacy skills, despite education being as well funded as most schools in Western Europe, and being better funded than schools in all but the most wealthy local suburbs.

Under the new law, states and districts are required to provide comprehensive support and improvement to: the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools, high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students, and schools in which subgroups perform at the same level as students in the lowest - performing schools despite local interventions.

The primary duty of instructional personnel is to work diligently and faithfully to help students meet or exceed annual learning goals, to meet state and local achievement requirements, and to master the skills required to graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary education and work.

Grants of $ 90,000 over two years to USA school districts and local education agencies for support programs that encourage high school students to enroll and graduate from post-secondary institutions.

The Association has called on Congress to support the efforts of states and local education agencies to increase student engagement and lower dropout rates using research - based approaches that ensure high school graduates become productive citizens.

Students completing all local and state requirements, including the TAAS / TAKS, will be eligible to graduate with a high school diploma.

To graduate students who are prepared for later life, IDRA research indicates that schools must have: (1) competent caring teachers who are paid well and are supported in their work, (2) consistent ways to partner with parents and engage the local communities to whom they account, (3) ways to really know students and have students know that they belong, and (4) high quality, enriched and accessible curriculum (Robledo Montecel, 2005).

The CSFB alumni survey found scholarship recipients enrolled in college at a higher rate than either the Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local studies.

A longtime local and Park City High School graduate, Erin Grady, was named to serve the unexpired term of school board member Julie Eihausen.

(D.C.) In Utah, first - year federal grant funding of $ 2.2 million was used to create a partnership between seven rural school districts, three charter schools, the Ute Indian Tribe, Utah State University and four local business organizations aimed at helping more low - income and at - risk students graduate from high school prepared for college.

School completer graduated from high school or completed some other education program that is approved by the state or local education agency.

Despite local and state governments devoting considerable resources to these programs, only about 25 percent of the students enrolled in them earn a high school degree, and because the programs typically emphasize process (attendance and following instructions, for example) rather than academics, virtually none of the graduates acquire the learning typically expected of high school graduates.

A local school system that will see only 9 percent of its students graduate from college within five years of graduating high school.

«Through their input, we can look forward to having a powerful statewide assessment that will inform local decisions to improve curriculum and instruction, raise student achievement, and ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for college or career.»

Thanks in part to a federal grant and local innovation, southeastern Oklahoma has a better chance to graduate more high school students with career goals and get more qualified health workers in the region.

In drawing the fault lines between white parents and Asian parents in the district, the Times completely overlooks the local elections that were held this past November, where the candidate (a graduating high school student, actually) who was demanding higher standards and higher quality lost to the candidate urging a more holistic approach (exactly what the superintendent is now enacting).

The Everyone Graduates Center at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University seeks to identify the barriers to high school graduation, develop strategic solutions to overcoming these barriers and build local capacity to implement and sustain the solutions so that all students graduate prepared for adult success.

We are collaborating with our local colleges to expose students to university - level work before they graduate from high school.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»