Sentences with phrase «number of college graduates»

If the percentages are positive — such as high numbers of college graduates, personal incomes or status jobs — they are said to be due to individual achievement.

His schools, which focus on inner - city minority students, are now operating in 20 states and producing admirable test results and impressive numbers of college graduates.

We're in a state with a shamefully low number of college graduates — we can't change that unless more students graduate from high school college ready.

And it's a little bit troubling that African efforts to increase the number of college graduates have often led to extremely high graduate unemployment rates.

Previously, he was superintendent of Oakland Unified School District in California, where he championed Oakland Promise, a cradle - to - career initiative designed to triple the number of college graduates from Oakland's public schools within a decade.

Florida's system highlights information about former students, including the number of college graduates, how much they earn at their current jobs, and even how many went to prison.

At the Urban Institute, we've shown that there are huge representation gaps for teachers of color and that the supply of teachers of color is greatly constrained by the number of college graduates of color.

Join influential leaders in higher education to discuss President Obama's 2020 Goal of America to double the number of college graduates.

The United States needs to increase the number of college graduates.

Today's participants were asked to commit to new action in one of four areas: building networks of colleges around promoting completion, creating K - 16 partnerships around college readiness, investing in high school counselors as part of the First Lady's Reach Higher initiative, and increasing the number of college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Overview If the U.S. is to increase the number of college graduates and boost our national competitiveness, we must redouble our efforts to ensure all students graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary learning and careers.

Our aim is to increase the number of college graduates in the communities we serve.»

As the country embarks on a quest to increase its number of college graduates, a majority of students graduating from its high schools are still not prepared for university - level work.

At College Success Arizona, our ultimate goal is to dramatically increase the number of college graduates in the state, particularly among Latino and low - income students.

If the U.S. is to increase the number of college graduates and boost our national competitiveness, we must redouble our efforts to ensure all students graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary learning and careers.

The fact is that more and more people are going to college, in fact the number of college graduates in the U.S. over the past decade is up well over 30 percent, and with that increase in students comes a lot of new debt.

In an effort to boost the number of college graduates coming to the city, Hamilton, Ohio, is endorsing a program aimed to help newly relocated college graduates pay down their student loans.

However, analyses predict the number of college graduates with art degrees to rise as well.