Sentences with phrase «school diploma does»

But in the vast majority of states, simply attaining a high school diploma does not qualify students to attend a public university, according to a study released Monday by the Center for American Progress.

Among other findings, 61 percent said that high schools were not equipped to meet the needs of struggling students, and 65 percent said that a public high school diploma did not prepare graduates for the workforce.

Not exact matches

The minimum education is typically a high school diploma, and much of the learning is done on the job.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

But it didn't specifically give a waiver to about 1,500 underclassmen — half the student body — who are, sooner or later, on the hook for taking exams required for a high school diploma.

Before closing, some schools may have issued a diploma or certificate to students who did not complete the program of study.

No, the funniest things is listening to DICKWADs like you, with high school diplomas, who probably can't even do their own tax return, ridiculing a Scientist.

Please tell me you don't have a high school diploma, you moronic ass wipe.

Their greatest triumph, to me, is one they don't know about: I attended an elementary - school graduation out in the suburbs, and when the kids shuffled up to get their diplomas, they did so to a song in which Andre sings, explicitly, that he has no use for a committed relationship and would prefer to have sex in his Cadillac.

But the new report also highlights an important fact that conservatives would do be smart to pay attention to — the people who are having second and third marriages tend to be those with high school diplomas only:

Education requirements needed to fulfill the CPM qualifications didn't include high school diploma until last year.

Only 6 percent of college - educated single women had children from 2006 - 2008, according to the National Marriage Project, a pro-marriage think tank housed at the University of Virginia, versus 54 percent of women who didn't graduate from high school and 44 percent of those with high school diplomas.

At the time of the survey, they didn't even need a high school diploma.

The Buffalo public school district's adult education division, in cooperation with the South Buffalo Education Center, has moved a program into South Park High School where those who did not earn a high school diploma can now school district's adult education division, in cooperation with the South Buffalo Education Center, has moved a program into South Park High School where those who did not earn a high school diploma can now School where those who did not earn a high school diploma can now school diploma can now do so.

Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10 students who walk across a stage and receive a New York City high school diploma need remediation in college, how can we say that this public school system is doing its job?»

The infamous Central Park Five, who missed the graduation ceremonies for their own high schools because they were in prison for a crime they did not commit, accepted honorary diplomas from Bronx Preparatory High School.

I agree with Dave's point of view that having a diploma from a famous school does not get you immediately a job.

Minyard believes criticism of coroners is «malarkey» — in fact, he doesn't believe coroners even need a high - school diploma to do the job.

«However, short - term certificates often don't provide any benefits over a high school diploma.»

I don't care if a man only has a high school diploma, but he has to be good with words and be curious about language.

In the early 1980s, 25 percent of high schoolers didn't take algebra, and students could earn a high school diploma after completing just two years of math.

Implicitly, the committee assumes this consequence does considerable harm to the affected students, given the substantial economic rewards that accrue, on average, from receiving a high school diploma.

A recent investigation revealed that several high schools in Washington, D.C., skirted district rules to graduate large numbers of their students who didn't meet the standards for earning diplomas.

Most didn't hold a high school diploma until 1940.

That's in large part owing to a provocative body of research showing that students who don't read with proficiency by the end of 3rd grade are far more likely to experience poor academic outcomes, including leaving school without a diploma.

Being held back did delay students» graduation from high school by 0.63 years, but being older for their grade did not reduce their probability of graduating or receiving a regular diploma.

As parental education has been shown to be a reliable indicator of a student's readiness to learn at school, the researchers categorized students into 1) those with a parent who had a college degree, 2) those with a parent who had only a high school diploma, and 3) those whose parent (s) did not have a high school diploma.

CPE's report investigates the 12 percent of high school graduates who didn't enroll in college, and it reveals some interesting, though not necessarily surprising, trends: They are more likely to be male, two out of three come from the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and about half have parents whose highest level of education is a high school diploma or less.

The percentage of white children in single - mother families where the mother does not have a high school degree has remained essentially unchanged at about 18 percent, but has increased from 10 % to 21 % for those families where the mother has a high school diploma (but not a college degree).

Some competency - based schools are even doing away with age - based grade levels entirely, treating learning as a continuum, and holding multiple graduation ceremonies each year to award diplomas when students are ready.

The 9 million jobs that have disappeared since the 2007 - 09 recession have given rise to a do - it - yourself economy that encourages entrepreneurship but also casts doubt on the value of a high school diploma.

On the other hand, if over time struggling learners don't pass these tests, there's a good chance they won't graduate from high school with a college - ready diploma.

• At day's end, there are just three ways of awarding «credit» for work done in (or out) of school (and conferring diplomas or equivalency certificates based on that credit): «seat time» as traditionally measured in Carnegie units; the judgment of classroom teachers; or «demonstrated mastery» based on credible external assessments.

Those countries actually don't have anything called a high school diploma.

Catholic schools contribute almost twice as much to a student volunteering as does raising a parent's educational level from a high - school diploma to a college degree.

Under federal law, youngsters who don't have a high school diploma can't apply for student loans, grants, and scholarships.

And all graduates leave the school with a career portfolio that, in addition to a high school diploma, includes certifications showcasing professional expertise and letters of recommendation from teachers and the company where they did their school - sponsored internship.

In other words, state governments, at the behest of the feds, are using tests to measure something they actually don't measure very well, and then penalizing schools — and in some cases, denying students diplomas — based on the results.

Chester believes that earning a high school diploma in Massachusetts and many other states doesn't necessarily prepare students for life after school.

It's amazing, Wiener says, considering that many of the mothers of Crossroads students were teen mothers who did not earn high school diplomas.

NCLB did not include such a requirement, and according to a September 2012 study of the Center on Education Policy, only about half of states (26) on their own require that students pass state high - school exit exams to earn a diploma.

At the end of the six - year program, not only do they come away with a high school diploma, an associate's degree in a chosen field, and career - ready credentials, but they also take over the deeds to like - new duplexes that they've collectively renovated, allowing them to begin establishing wealth by building equity while also receiving passive income and leading long - term revitalization efforts in their communities.

The report, sponsored by the Business Roundtable, a Washington - based association of corporate executive officers, and undertaken by the Center for Labor Market Studies, at Northeastern University in Boston, contends that between 25 percent and 30 percent of high school students in the United States do not graduate with high school diplomas.

For someone who started college but didn't graduate, the number dropped to about $ 33,000; someone with just a high school diploma earned about $ 27,000.

A high school diploma, they say, remains the gold standard for jobs that do not require a college degree.

Those veterans who didn't hold a diploma could even use the scholarships at Catholic high schools.

Did such exams, as supporters hoped, make the high - school diploma more valuable, thereby improving the job prospects of graduates?

Did such exams make the high - school diploma more valuable, thereby improving the job prospects of graduates?

The best answer to this latter question, I believe, is no, and it comes in two parts: 1) however much the economy is changing, not all high - school graduates need to be ready for college and career, in whatever way that term is reasonably defined, and 2) practically, since roughly two - thirds of our high schoolers do not graduate college and career ready, today we would deny well over a majority of our students a diploma if we were to impose these more - rigorous requirements on the attainment of a diploma.

So, as much as we may want ever - increasing numbers of students to graduate high school ready for college and career, amping up the criteria for attaining the general diploma to such a high degree, at least too quickly, is neither the right thing to do, nor is it practically or politically sensible.