Sentences with phrase «making it to graduation»

If you can make it to graduation day — no easy task — your job prospects are good.

Many students now take more than four years to get a degree, sometimes as long as six years, and sometimes the freshmen never make it to graduation, dropping out before the degree is in hand.

Now several of the groups have formed a consortium to help students make it to graduation day.

They got it, this being the first time they felt they had a right to actually question THE MAN or get real information about why their kids never seemed to make it to graduation.

As I have said before, no one makes it to graduation alone.

We are laser focused on that number, working during high school to be sure they are prepared, to ensure they attend colleges and programs that have good track records with low - income students, and to make sure they are accessing all possible supports in college so they make it to graduation.

Considering that almost 20 percent of our children don't even make it to graduation day, this means that maybe one - third of our kids nationally are getting to that college - ready mark.

As you all know, and as I have said before, no one makes it to graduation alone.

Considering that almost 20 % of our children don't even make it to graduation day, that means that maybe a third of our kids nationally are getting to that college - ready mark.

The financial difficulties faced by students from low - income families in making it to graduation are well documented, but recently, less tangible factors — like sense of belonging — have also been shown to impact college completion rates.

Higher education reformers are keen to find fixes for remedial education, some of them aggressive state policies, because students who are assigned to the courses are unlikely to make it to graduation.

To be clear, our findings do not indicate that every performance - based funding policy fails, but that the average performance - based funding policy has no impact on the number of students making it to graduation.

According to school - provided data, 100 % of the students who were in sixth grade at Drew made it to their graduation ceremony six years later.

«Any individuals who are unsuited to a career in teaching tend to be filtered out quickly during ITE and will not make it to graduation or through the world - leading teaching induction programme that operates in our state schools.»

There is also a school - wide social worker and every teacher «adopts» two or three seniors, according to McKoy, to make sure they make it to graduation.

However, making it to graduation does not always mean that students will be ready for the path in life that they want to go down.

The typical response to this kind of bad news is for teachers unions and legislators to claim that taxpayers are «underfunding» public schools; and that's why so many kids don't make it to graduation.

What if we could give ESAs to those BIE students in Arizona who would not have made it to graduation otherwise?»

Students who get academic help have a better chance of making it to graduation.

Whatever the need may be, our goal is to help students make it to graduation and achieve their dreams.

Girls have a definite advantage when it comes to making it to graduation day, with 84 % finishing school in 2012 versus 77 % of their male peers.

Making it to graduation day is a major milestone for teens, but many of them struggle to decipher the words on their diploma.

«With a starting class of 500 kids in my engineering program, only 40 made it to graduation.

We can't lose sight of the fact this data is for the one - in - four students who actually made it to graduation.

It is relevant information for students to know if previous students ever made it to the graduation finish line or just obligated themselves for student loans and did not achieve a diploma in return.

You are not going to make it to graduation in climate science unless you can walk the walk and talk the talk.

If you've made it to graduation, you've definitely learned this skill — time management.

Those students who make it to graduation day deserve something to say «Congratulations!»

Not exact matches

I watched tough men melt as they made commitments to their children and wives upon their graduation ceremony.

Citizenship and Immigration Minister John McCallum's announced changes will likely make it easier for international students to stay after graduation

Because the average salary for a woman still lags behind men's (the American Association of University Women says women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man makes one year after graduation) and lenders favor two - income households over single earners, Lautz says women are «making the most sacrifices to get into a home, but they're still placing a high value on owning a home of their own.»

In honor of graduation season, CNBC Make It spoke exclusively to some of the nation's top business leaders and personal finance gurus, career coaches, bestselling authors, CEOs, self - made millionaires and billionaires and Wharton's No. 1 professor.

Jessica McCormick, chairperson for the Canadian Federation of Students, says that some students are discouraged by how difficult it can be to find a job in their chosen field upon graduation, especially with the added stress of having to make student loan payments.

Sauder's 12 - week global immersion program, which culminates in a two - week trip overseas like the one Ma made to Shanghai, is required for graduation.

If the graduation rate at that high school is 50 percent, by increasing that rate to 60 percent, you will have made a tangible impact.

- an assumption is made here that the student will take advantage of a six - month repayment grace period after graduation (interest accrues during that period and is added to the amount owing)

After graduation, most student loan borrowers have a 6 - month grace period in which they don't have to make any student loan payments.

After graduation, although wanting to make fitness her full - time career, Kara settled for a more traditional career path.

It's important to note that while you don't have to begin making payments on most federal loans until after graduation unless your loans are subsidized, you'll begin racking up interest charges as soon as you take them out.

AIM is a great tool for those students attempting to make themselves more marketable upon graduation as AIM aligns itself with success and strives to be the difference between simply getting a degree and getting a job.

Never go over the limit, keep your balances low, and make payments on time — and you'll be on your way to a low - stress financial life, even beyond graduation.

Option for students to make full, interest - only, or flat payments while in school or to defer payments until after graduation

Option for students to make full or interest - only payments while in school, or to defer payments until after graduation

The ability to make a payment towards loans while in school has been available for both federal and private loans, but generally not promoted by private student loan providers, with most student borrowers electing to defer loan payments until after graduation.

Why could they not focus on the graduation of students without feeling the need to be intrusive and over-bearing with their religious views to the point that a legal case could be made against them?

For example, in Lee v. Weisman the Supreme Court protects a dissenting student from the burden of having to hear a prayer at graduation exercises, while in Lyng v. Northwest the same court approves the building of a logging road through sacred lands, making it impossible for a whole tribe of Indians to practice their religion.

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

The soldiers that oversee AIT graduations are NCOs, and if our country has been at war for ten years, then it is only reasonable to conclude they all have multiple combat tours and have made countless sacrifices.

I made Bon Appetit's Strawberry & Rhubarb Crumble (May 2010, p. 132) for my stepson's graduation party; he loves strawberries, is off to the U.K. for the summer and it was a recipe from British cookbook author Tamasin Day - Lewis, so I thought it was a good fit for the party even though it wasn't particularly diabetic - friendly.

Those breads make me think of happy moments — birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, accomplishments of any kind all celebrated with bread and butter to start the evening.