Sentences with phrase «school dropout who»

In truth, she was a high school dropout who had one year of practical nursing.

I'm a high school dropout who owns a trucking company, and I like physics more than anything and want to understand as much as I can.

He was a high school dropout who worked at the post office.

Only a few generations ago, it was okay to enter the workforce as a high school dropout who could only read at a third - grade level.

Conviction Premise: Hilary Swank stars as a high - school dropout who gets her degree and goes to law school so she can free her wrongly convicted brother (Sam Rockwell) from prison.

He upgrades his equipment and hires Rick (Riz Ahmed), a homeless high school dropout who has never held down a steady job.

Crime comedy inspired by a bizarre true story, following a chubby high school dropout who starts trafficking marijuana over the Canadian border for...

Dangerfield stars as Thornton Melon, a high - school dropout who made the big - time by launching a chain of clothing stores for the overweight.

Nick (Jake Johnson) is a law - school dropout who is now a bartender; like Jess he is also nursing a broken heart, but in his case he was the dumpee.

Now, not every kid who is spanked turns into a depressed, angry high - school dropout who beats people up.

Wide Awake, Half Asleep: I am a chiropractic school dropout who loves natural healing.

He sees Lowry as the example: a high - school dropout who spends most of his waking moments at a keyboard.

Had Willms chosen another field, his story could be inspirational: he's a high - school dropout who built an enterprise with a half billion dollars in revenue.

The hardest hit would be low - skilled workers like high school dropouts who lose their jobs or hours and have a big struggle to find something else, he said.

Here I am, a stay - at - home mom, daughter of a stay - at - home mom, and I read an article like that and think, «uh oh, is my choice to stay at home going to make my [maybe someday] daughters into high school dropouts who aspire for nothing more than childbearing?»

Sixty - eight percent of the high school dropouts who participated in the study said their parents became involved in their education only after realizing their student was contemplating dropping out of school.

The fact that nearly half of the former high school dropouts who join ChalleNGe are white shows that a broad swath of America's teenagers would profit from a healthy dose of academic and social development.

For example, North Country Charter Academy, a competency - based alternative high school in northern New Hampshire, serves high school dropouts who arrive with a wide range of existing credits and levels of mastery.

In fact, I know several self - taught investors who are high school dropouts who are doing just fine.

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We had one woman working with us who wanted us to do something with high school dropouts in Canada, which we did, stupidly.

Do you REALLY think a high school grad or dropout is going to raise a kid who'll value education?

A plan for providing volunteer tutors for children from disturbed homes who are potential school dropouts has been implemented by the Friendly Visitor workers.

There's James Heckman, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at the University of Chicago, who found in the late 1990s that students who earned high school diplomas through the General Educational Development program, widely known as the GED, had the same future prospects as high school dropouts, a discovery that led him to conclude that there were qualities beyond courses and grades that made a big difference in students» success.

Many studies show kids who are struggling academically actually do worse when their peers move up a grade and they are left behind and can even lead to a school dropout in the future.

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

Most of them are considered to be non-literate, school dropouts, or young females who have escaped from outmoded socio - cultural practices such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation (female circumcision) among others.

Born to a teen mom, I was adopted at birth by my maternal grandmother, a high school graduate, and her second husband, an eighth - grade dropout who die d of alcohol - induced cirrhosis when I was a year old.

On the other hand, every guy who has contacted me first online has been a major loser: in prison, unemployed high school dropout, toooo smoooth ladykiller, mentally ill and unable to work, totally uneducated (can't spell or use proper grammar), or just too awkward socially (middle aged and never been married, but desperate).

Kid Cannabis (Unrated) Idaho crime caper revisiting the real - life exploits of an 18 year - old, high school dropout (Jonathan Daniel Brown) who quit his job as a pizza delivery boy to build a multimillion dollar Marijuana empire.

WHAT IF is the story of medical school dropout Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe), who's been repeatedly burned by bad relationships.

The film centers around med school dropout Wallace (Radcliffe), who strikes a close relationship with quirky animator Chantry (Kazan).

Noah Wylie plays Leonard, a disgraced schoolteacher turned drug dealer who sees his own chance at redemption by saving a high - school dropout from giving up on himself.

Hilary Swank stars in this true - life drama as Betty Anne Waters, a high - school dropout and a mother of two who decides to qualify as a lawyer, just so that she can overturn her brother's murder conviction.

Kid Cannabis sees Brown play Nate Norman, a high - school dropout from Idaho who builds a multi-million empire and a rivalry with various drug lords by trafficking marijuana across the US / Canada border.

Some of that gap can be explained by high school dropouts — kids who left school before twelfth grade and would not be expected to get a college degree.

The U.S. Army hopes to recruit as many as 6,000 dropouts who would earn high - school - equivalency diplomas during their time in the military, under a three - year pilot program announced this month.

Who Are Today's School Dropouts?

The G.E.D. has been around for a long time, too, meant as a second chance for dropouts and others who just never got around to completing a regular high school diploma «on schedule.»

Adding latrines also decreased dropout rates, reducing the fraction of students who dropped out by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.

Armed with this information, staff members at the school district, city, and partner organizations have been developing strategies and practices that give both dropouts and at - risk students a web of increased support and services, including providing dropout - prevention specialists in several high schools, establishing accelerated - learning programs for older students who are behind on credits, and implementing reading programs for older students whose skills are well below grade level.

In my travels, I've spoken to people who run alternative schools, people who work in recovery programs to reclaim existing dropouts, and people involved in a variety of dropout prevention programs.

According to data revealed at a Columbia University Teachers College symposium on «The Social Costs of Inadequate Education,» dropouts die 9.2 years earlier than students who graduate high school and annually cost $ 4.5 billion in lost income taxes and earnings.

Alarmed by the high dropout and failure rates for college students who start out in remedial classes, Florida lawmakers voted last year to make such courses, and even the related placement tests, optional for anyone who... earned a [high school] diploma....

To hide the actual dropout rate, most school districts report as dropouts those who entered the year as seniors but did not remain in school until the end of that year.

High school dropouts unable to compete for high - paying, high - skilled jobs, earn roughly $ 9,000 less a year than classmates who graduate.

«When we went off the reservation, we did not have these kinds of dropout rates,» said Mitchell, who graduated from Shead High School in nearby Eastport in 1966.

Cascio found that white children who participated in state - funded universal pre-kindergarten were less likely to be high school dropouts and likely to be incarcerated or otherwise institutionalized as adults.

By implementing these changes together, they hoped to eliminate dropout factories, improve educational options available to students who had been historically assigned to failing schools by virtue of where they lived, and raise graduation rates.

But almost as persistent as the district's low test scores and high dropout rates were the number of school superintendents — eight in seven years — who promised change and failed to deliver, swallowed up by petty politics and power struggles.

With it, sometimes, comes the idea of creating new education options for out - of - school youth and dropout recovery programs for those who have fallen by the wayside.