Sentences with phrase «number of young people graduating»

We need to speed up economic growth in order that we can provide decent jobs for the large number of young people graduating from our universities every year.»

The numbers of young people graduating has shot up thanks to a host of «equity» focused reforms, such as re-engagement programs, the turnaround of chronically struggling districts, and strong regulation of traditional public and charter schools, wrought under a landmark Massachusetts Education Act.

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The company's hope is that a large number of these graduates will be «Opportunity Youth:» young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not enrolled in school or are out of the workforce.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

[7] The Grad Nation report argues that the number of young people miscounted as graduates was not large enough to offset the good news.

The goals included: narrowing the gap in literacy and numeracy achievement in primary schools and at GCSE; ensuring young people develop key strengths such as character and good mental health; narrowing the gulf in the numbers of youngsters continuing their education and training after GCSEs; and narrowing the gap between rich and poor students graduating from university.

The articles that follow provide concrete, detailed lessons from research and best practice about how to make afterschool and summer programming more effective in a number of key areas that help young people to be more successful in school and to graduate from high school — the first rung in the ladder leading to full participation in 21st century economic and civic life.

«Their commitment will hopefully serve as a catalyst for other similar partnerships in New Orleans and nationwide aimed at increasing the number of young people who graduate from four - year colleges.»

The number of young people applying per job opening has more than doubled since 2009, as graduates struggle with an over-saturated market and the effects of the recession.