Sentences with phrase «readying kids for college»

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Getting the kids ready for college, huh?

And certainly by the time that kids are getting ready to leave home for college or for the work force, they should be able to start setting their own curfew.

When John Deasy talks about college and career readiness, he's talking about exactly the right issue, which is, will we get our kids ready for what they will need in the 21st century.

Whether you are a mom that needs to get your kids ready to go back to school or you are a college student that is getting ready for the new school year, we have a list of 5 must - haves that will get you through the upcoming months!

Raise the quality of instruction for college - ready kids.

But only a third of our kids graduate high school ready for college or a career.

My goal this year with both kids in college was to have the house ready for when they arrive for Christmas break.

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Bill and Melinda Gates, for instance, devote much of their gigantic philanthropy to getting black and brown kids ready for college, yet they earn her scorn for «corporate foundations, which indeed have those funds because they can avoid paying taxes that the rest of us must foot.»

We have to continue to raise expectations for our elementary and high schools so that many more kids graduate high school ready for college.

There's a reason why out - of - level testing, which was once the norm, has been outlawed by the feds for years — it becomes an easy way to get around the hard work of helping these kids to become career and college - ready.

In fact, the MDRC report adds to the growing evidence that, while New York City is graduating students at a higher rate than a decade ago, most of these kids are still not ready for college....

So for your social studies teacher who doesn't think being college - ready is right,... I would argue that it is criminal to have low expectations for kids because it guarantees that they won't achieve much of anything.»

I'm also so thankful to Governor Martinez for standing on the line so that my team and I could stand on the line to make real changes and ensure more kids are college and career ready.

She has two kids — one is getting ready for college, the other is a special ed student in middle school.

Unfortunately for them, one - off state tests don't yield comparable results, and discrepant proficiency bars are much of what went wrong with NCLB — so the drop - out states that devise their own assessments still won't know how their kids and schools compare with those in other states or with the nation as a whole or whether their high school graduates are indeed college ready.

College and career ready standards are raising the bar for our kids, and will give each child the tools they need to succeed on whatever path they choose.

And less than half of them graduate college - ready, as determined by the city's own Comptroller (whose kids, for the record, last year attended a private preschool — obviously, the man reads his own reports).

And throughout this country, these families are often not informed about their options for preparing their kids for success in school and in life, including opportunities to take Advanced Placement courses or participate in the growing number of dual - credit programs that allow them to take community college courses that they can use for getting ready for the rigors of higher education.

DC School Reform Now is educating, organizing and advocating to build support for public education strategies that prepare kids to become college and career ready.

«We have probably about 30 to 40 percent of kids who graduate high school ready for a four - year college program and they do okay.

Right now I'm very focused on the balance between getting kids up to speed and getting them ready for college.

Do we want our kids to graduate with meaningless diplomas, or do we want them to demonstrate mastery and earn a diploma that signifies they are ready for college and the careers of tomorrow?

The administration also failed to fully address other concerns: For example, it granted Georgia a waiver in spite of concerns that it didn't include graduation rate data for poor and minority kids into its proposed accountability system, the College and Career Ready Performance Index, which effectively meant that «a school could earn a high CCRPI with low graduation rates for some subgroups&raquFor example, it granted Georgia a waiver in spite of concerns that it didn't include graduation rate data for poor and minority kids into its proposed accountability system, the College and Career Ready Performance Index, which effectively meant that «a school could earn a high CCRPI with low graduation rates for some subgroups&raqufor poor and minority kids into its proposed accountability system, the College and Career Ready Performance Index, which effectively meant that «a school could earn a high CCRPI with low graduation rates for some subgroups&raqufor some subgroups».

«Our initial mission and responsibility was to get kids ready for college,» says Phyllis Tashlik, director of the consortium's Center for Inquiry.

Meanwhile, in a troubling portrait, only 26 percent of kids were considered ready for key college classes, in Illinois and the nation, based on ACT's analysis of student scores in English, reading, math and science.

MOOCs: A path to early college New programs use data to steer poor kids into college High school grads aren't even ready for low community college expectations, report says Conventional college route shifts to «education buffet»

Most importantly, we care about our kids - we're dedicated to getting them ready for success in college and beyond.

We want kids to graduate from high school ready for college, trade school, military or employment.

If politicians really want to understand how to prepare our children for college, maybe they should try a new — for them - approach and consult experts with a great track record of knowing what makes kids college - ready.

Maxwell is known for her work in STEM education, arts education, improving teaching and learning, college access, and preserving the state's safety net to ensure at - risk kids are healthy and ready to learn.

«I have no idea why they have made this decision, but I do know for a fact that we need to transform our education system state by state to assure that more than just 25 or 30 percent of our kids are college - or career - ready.»

Senior Policy Associate Carinne Deeds will be presenting alongside Erica Curry Van - Ee, Founder, Urban Curry Consulting (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Daniel Tsin, Director of Data and Accountability, Urban Alliance on the ways in which afterschool is providing social and emotional learning opportunities aimed at ensuring that all kids are ready for college, work, and life.

Ready to Code librarians help kids connect their interests to learning opportunities in college or to careers they may not have even considered, especially for youth from diverse backgrounds.»

We seemed to have been on the 3 year plan for ever due to some distractions, kids college, wedding, unemployment, but now both kids are off the payroll and we are ready to buckle down and get this debt paid off for good.

Horton's Kids empowers children growing up in one of Washington, DC's most under - resourced communities so that they graduate from high school, ready for success in college, career, and life.

Your kids will be ready for college in the blink of an eye.

It's August, which means kids and their parents are getting ready for college.

Many couples have been so busy focusing on the needs of their teenagers, getting ready for college or other dealing with other family issues, that it isn't until children kids are gone that many couples realize how much is really missing in their relationship.