Sentences with phrase «seen high dropout»

However, gradually the course has seen high dropout rates.

Not exact matches

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

«She won't mind that I'm a high school dropout when she sees my pecs!»

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.

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.

So Starr directed his staff to prepare a report on the question, and they looked at the experience of the class of 2011, dropouts and non-dropouts, from all of the county's 26 high schools, to see what they could learn.

Even where state compulsory attendance laws extend to age 17 or 18, our sky - high dropout rate (see Figure 2) proves those statutes are unenforceable.

So few people know how big these dropout numbers are that, in a recent book, Michael Dyson scolds Bill Cosby for (accurately) lamenting the fact that only half of African Americans graduate from high school (see p. 78).

If the 90,488 high school dropouts from the Class of 2010 had earned their diplomas instead of dropping out, Florida's economy would have seen an additional $ 24 billion in wages over these students» lifetimes.

Rather, it is states which have historically tested least and are less likely to attach high - stakes to their tests that generally score highest on NAEP [see Neill, Civil Rights], have lower dropout rates [Clark], and send more students on to college [see article on evaluation of state college systems, Education Week 1/6/00].

But in the 1970's, East Lake fell on hard times seeing poverty, crime, and high school dropouts rates spiral out of control.

Some might assume that gifted students will excel no matter what kind of schooling they receive while others might be able to see that gifted students are often bored in traditional classrooms which leads to a higher dropout rate.

Dr. King would have been angered to see that we all too often under - invest in disadvantaged students; that they still have fewer opportunities to take rigorous college - prep courses in high school; that too many black, and brown, and low - income children are still languishing in aging facilities and high schools that are little more than dropout factories.

Judge Easterbrook of the 7th Circuit, who was otherwise being taken to task today for a podium comment, see f / k / a's post, Frank Easterbrook calls juries «twelve high school dropouts», was straight forward in his explication of the law of the workplace as he affirmed summary judgment for an employer, even though concluding:

Single parenthood is not the only, nor even the most important, cause of the higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, or other negative outcomes we see; but it does contribute independently to these problems.