Sentences with phrase «school graduated high school»

Charter schools graduate high school students at higher rates than traditional district schools - 79 % versus 66 % for traditional schools.

Though 86 % of its student body is low - income, 93 % of its middle schoolers graduate high school, and more than 83 % of them go on to college.

«Only 53 percent of students attending BIE schools graduate high school — far below the national average of 81 percent.

But in my experience, a modicum of education is possible in almost any situation, and surely we could be providing a much higher quality of education than only 1 in 10 low - income kids graduating from college, and most kids in high poverty schools graduating high school reading on an eighth grade level.

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His father Fred never graduated from high school and held a series of blue - collar jobs including truck driver, factory worker and cab driver.

Last year, a high school in Ohio named more than 200 kids in the graduating class «valedictorians» because they didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

«I graduated from high school at age 16.

The «Modern Family» goof took the GED to graduate high school by the time he was 13 and hoped to take some online college courses.

After graduating from high school, he went to the Air Force Academy.

After graduating at the top of his class in high school, Spacey went on to Julliard to study acting.

After some training courses, high school graduates can work as oil and gas well drillers or servicers — supervisors typically work their way up through the various drilling crew jobs.

Soon, she graduated from high school and signed a $ 13 million deal with Puma.

It's with this goal in mind that he founded The Flatiron School alongside Adam Enbar, a graduate of Harvard Business School, who two years set out to rethink traditional higher education.

Amine Issa graduated from high school at 15 and received a PhD in biomedical engineering at 26.

Once an optional stop on the career path, internships are increasingly becoming de rigeur for young people — often high school, undergraduate, and graduate students — looking for hands on experience in a wide range of fields.

Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

Kaspersky himself is a graduate of the KGB Higher School, from which he received degrees in mathematical engineering and computer technology.

In starting Pinrose, Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates Erika Shumate and Christine Luby had a vision to make high - quality fragrance a playful, effortless, everyday experience for the modern millennial.

After graduating from high school (he played percussion in the marching band), Surace earned an engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and began his career working for large companies: IBM, Seiko Epson, and National Semiconductor, which relocated him to Silicon Valley.

We may graduate high school and college in larger numbers, but from the moment we receive our diplomas, the divide begins.

Google is hiring more teenagers than college graduates, and even a 12 - year - old who is just beginning high school.

Seaton said only four states require high school students take a personal finance course to graduate and another 16 mandate some financial literacy components in classwork.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

Applicants must be graduating high - school seniors who are entering their freshman year at an accredited two - or four - year university, college or vocational institute in the fall of 2013.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

Both of my parents are American, but we lived in France, Democratic Republic of Congo and then Kenya until I graduated high school.

After graduating from Vashon High School, I began college at Kalamazoo College where I studied abroad in Costa Rica for a whole trimester.

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

If the connection to Walmart caused some Etsy sellers to cry hypocrisy, the investment was nonetheless a triumph for Etsy and for Kalin, who barely graduated from high school and who essentially conned his way into a college education.

When I was 15 and my brother was 17, he passed away in a car accident just a couple days before graduating from high school, and obviously it changed me dramatically.

Last year, only 44 percent of high - school graduates were prepared for college - level math and 36 percent were prepared for university - level science courses, according to the National Math and Science Initiative.

«I was an unremarkable student throughout high school and college, so when I graduated I was excited to discover this strange place called the «real world.»

After graduating first in her Manhattan High School class, Cool headed to Harvard in 2003, where she studied economics and quickly became a staple in campus women's groups.

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At the last minute however, he says an academy official realized that Frazier had skipped two grades in school, and was therefore graduating from high school at 16.

He received his BA with high honors in Economics at Princeton University and studied business and finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business before leaving to co-found MetaReward.

It's perhaps what you'd expect from a kid who skipped four grades, two in elementary and two in high school, and graduated from the University of British Columbia four years early at 18.

What about all of the aspiring entrepreneurs about to graduate from high school?

His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.

My oldest daughter is a junior in high school, and it is staggering how much the cost of higher education has escalated since I finished school a decade ago — to say nothing of the job market my daughter expects to see when she graduates.

You can think of the obvious problem with that: Imagine if you're a marginal high school student and you know that when you turn 18 or a certain age you're going to get an income whether you graduate or not.

The Census Bureau calculated that over an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1.2 million; those with a bachelor's degree, $ 2.1 million; and people with a master's degree, $ 2.5 million.

Each year, about 65,000 undocumented students who have lived in the U.S. for five or more years graduate from American high schools.

Six of the 25 schools whose MBAs graduate with the highest average loans are public, including Kenan - Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, where the average debt burden is $ 93,898 and 61 % of all graduates are in hock.

Lauren graduated high school in the Bronx, New York, but later dropped out of college to join the Army.

That's why PayScale surveyed 2.3 million graduates of more than 2,400 colleges and universities to report their pay, major, highest degree earned, and associate's or bachelor's school name where appropriate.

In a finding that will be little surprise to high - schoolers looking for a part - time gig or college and university graduates seeking a first permanent position, StatsCan says young employees are most likely to be paid the minimum wage:

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

Roughly 70 % of high school graduates in the United States seek a bachelor's or an associate's degree, but not all attend an institution with cachet.