Sentences with phrase «points by graduating»

However, even if you are unable to reduce license points by graduating from a traffic school course, you will still receive other benefits by enrolling in one.

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He graduated from - and later taught at - the US Military Academy at West Point, an institution guided by the motto «Duty, Honor, Country.»

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

«Provides support for graduate students by continuing to exempt the value of reduced tuition from taxes,» the talking points stated.

Regarding Schumer's point on enrollments, the number of computer science graduates bottomed out in the 2006 - 07 academic year, with only 8,021 students receiving bachelor's degrees in computer science at the 170 Ph.D. - granting institutions tracked by the Computer Research Association.

The Ramblers were led by senior forward Donte Ingram, a graduate of Chicago powerhouse Simeon Career Academy, who finished with 18 points and eight rebounds in the win.

Academy graduate Josh Sims set up the club's 499th home Premier League goal scored by Charlie Austin, with Boufal bringing up the landmark figure of 500 thanks to his spectacular long range strike which sealed all three points against Middlesbrough.

We now know to wait to start until they're around 6mo, at which point they're able to actually eat real food (for example, if they HAD started at 3 weeks, they'd have graduated to «finger foods» by about this time).

The study, by Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Education and co-founder of the advocacy group Challenge Success, analyzes the accuracy of four commonly encountered talking points relating to the AP program:

You may even be able to just skip the bottle at this point, since he's gotten used to doing without it during the day, but if he puts up a fuss, take a graduated approach: Begin to reduce the amount of milk in the bedtime bottle by at least two ounces every two days.

As an example we can take the exit polls from the 2012 presidential race, we see that while Obama won in most of the educational categories (look at the NYTimes) he did win by significantly higher margins in the postgraduate part of the population (+13 percentage points), lost college graduates by 4 %, and won people with some college by 1 %.

He pointed out we are yet to see the new wave of students graduate with higher debt levels than ever and there are still «serious questions» over how increased costs are impacting on the subjects chosen by students.

The duo also shot down the notion that actress Nixon is unqualified to run for governor by pointing out she's a Barnard graduate and has been an education activist.

In fact, in addition to the faculty union, skeptics of the program have included the CUNY Graduate Center's newspaper, the president of the SUNY Student Assembly, and SUNY's own trustees; an academic program coordinator at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College offered a point - by - point evisceration of the scholarship in an op - ed for Inside Higher Ed.

I personally am not against students / graduates contributing to the cost of their education to some extent — provided the repayment structure is fair, which Browne's system patently isn't once you consider Terry's point about early repayment by those who can afford it.

Malvern businessman and Chester County Democrats executive committee member Mike Parrish, a West Point graduate, former Army aviator and current Army Reserve colonel, is the first Democrat to announce his entry into the race, which is rated as Favored Republican by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report / Roll Call.

«In the last two weeks, Nigeria and Nigerians have been inundated with the news of the incredible performance of Mr. Ayodele Dada, a student of the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, who set a new academic record by graduating with a 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average.

University of Tennessee graduate Assemblyman Steve Englebright, D - Suffolk County, said he once watched Kentucky beat the Volunteers» freshmen team by 64 points.

The percentage of Buffalo Public School graduates who went on to a two - or four - year college increased to 67 percent for the Class of 2015, putting the district on the heels of the national rate for more affluent districts.And new data released Wednesday by Say Yes Buffalo show that the rate of college - going graduates has gone up 10 points since 2012, the year before the o...

By the time he graduated from University College London in 1999, Godinho Ferreira had grown tired of studying replication because the field had reached the point where «people would just repeat each others» experiments,» he says.

Clemens also points to a recent discovery made by Thomas Stidham, one of his graduate students.

After this success, Farquhar got out of the libration point business, but by that time Breakwell had enticed another graduate student to take over — Kathleen Howell.

That's the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Marketing Research: «Healthy Choice: The Effect of Simplified Point - of - Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food Choice Behavior,» co-authored by Hristina Nikolova, the Coughlin Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and J. Jeffrey Inman, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty and the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

The post points to a Quartz article that includes findings from a study by the American Association of University Women, which examined «15,000 graduates with bachelor's degrees who are 35 years old and younger» and found, across all fields, a 6.6 % «earnings difference between men and women 1 year after graduation.»

The person who points out that they graduated with highest honors from a prestigious university and doesn't want to be contacted by anyone with lesser achievements is unfortunately, probably not going to get many responses to the profile.

His tough leadership is initially resented by not only his pilots but his second - in - command (Hugh Marlowe), a West Point graduate and son of a general.

Because of the way the plot is structured, a blow - out is unavoidable, and it occurs at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas (weirdly graduated into a film's pivot point), where Jon's eagerness to sell out in front of cute, slack - mouthed publicists and Frank's paralysing awkwardness both lead to disaster.

Howe, a 32 - year - old graduate of Harvard and the American Film Institute, started the project by writing from the point of view of a childhood friend with mental illness.

But the picture suffers in comparison to films that address convoluted sociologies (people point to American Beauty, but really, this game goes all the way back to The Graduate) with fury and courage (like Todd Solondz's Palindromes and Happiness) or with surpassing originality and wit (like Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore)-- it suffers most, in other words, from believing that what it has to say is still interesting, still revelatory enough by itself.

In a report on the 2009 — 10 school year, the project says that, nationally, its students improved their scores in all four core subjects compared to their performance in their home school the year before — by from 6 to 11 percentage points — and that 96 percent of the students classified as seniors at the beginning of the school year graduated.

An increase of one standard deviation in the level of maternal schooling increases the likelihood of graduating from college by 14 percentage points, nearly three times as much as the corresponding effect for single - parent family structure (5 percentage points).

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.

He can easily point to each graduate by name and say what they do today.

As research points out, small schools improve life outcomes by helping more students graduate, thus providing them with the opportunities to attend college, find meaningful employment, and become productive citizens.

When informed that 75 percent of students graduated from high school, the public took that as neutral to mildly good news, as the percentage giving schools an «A» or «B» increased by a trivial 2 points and the percentage getting a «D» or «F» dropped by 1 point (both statistically insignificant changes).

«The whole point behind our research was to see if we could design games that would help the bottom third of students, students that even by middle school have given up on themselves and on school,» explains Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Other states, such as Georgia, have made college accessible by providing free tuition for high school graduates who are able to maintain a specified grade - point average.

Students who take Advanced Placement courses in high school appear more likely to graduate from college within four years and have higher grade point averages in college than similar students who aren't exposed to such classes, according to an unpublished study by researchers in Texas.

In addition, students who «concentrate» their CTE coursework are more likely to graduate high school by 21 percentage points compared to otherwise similar students — a truly staggering number.

Second, Mathews notes the gloomy appraisal of State ESSA plans that was issued last month by Bellwether and the Collaborative for Student Success, which declares that «States largely have squandered the opportunity... to create stronger, more innovative education plans» and that many «proposed graduation rate goals that far exceeded proficiency rates by 20 percentage points or more, creating the potential for states to graduate students that are not adequately prepared for their futures.»

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

Yet the evaluation also found that using a voucher improved students» chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

Schools with nearly identical graduation rates can differ by 50 or 60 points in terms of the percentage of graduates who go on to college (compare all the dots in the red circle).

Journalism also teaches effective writing skills, a point made by Nicole Font, who recently graduated with a teaching degree from High Point Univerpoint made by Nicole Font, who recently graduated with a teaching degree from High Point UniverPoint University.

La Vonne Neal, dean of the college of education at Northern Illinois University, pointed out that the pool of teaching candidates is automatically limited by the fact that only 52 percent of black males and 58 percent of Hispanic males are graduating high school at all.

A 2013 study by MDRC found that students attending new small schools in New York graduated at a rate nearly 10 percentage points higher than did citywide peers with comparable backgrounds and learning needs.

Thus they had only small differential effects on the occupational choices of talented women college graduates; the fraction of women entering the teaching profession from highly selective colleges fell by only 3.2 percentage points.

Meanwhile, the share of the highest - aptitude graduates who became teachers shifted downward by about 12 percentage points.

Over the same time period, state reports indicate that the high school graduation rate in New Orleans rose by 10 percentage points and the share of high school graduates entering college rose by 14 percentage points.