Sentences with phrase «setting than a college»

There's no better setting than a college campus for stirring up drama.

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There's also some stacking going on, meaning if you set expectations in daughters» heads that they should go to college AND they should not get pregnant as teenagers, they're more likely to make it to age 20 without having a child than they would have been if you'd only pushed the «don't have a baby until you're old enough to be ready» message.

Datskovsky: What you've suggested so far — building cash reserves, establishing a 401 (k) plan, and continuing to save for college — will more than eat up the money you think we could set aside.

But this year's edition was set to be more than just a game; it was scheduled as a two - week event featuring additional games from the American Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League, plus a college tournament and Leafs - Wings alumni game.

You will have noted, for example, that the study of God (rather than religion) is not an occupation high on the list of priorities set forth in the development plans of most of our colleges and universities.

Countless college students aspire to be «personnel directors» or «counselors» in large organizations rather than to become entrepreneurs running their own shops (unless they plan to set up their own psychological «practices»).

College students, introduced to Edwards via other routes than the sermon on «Sinners in the hands of an angry God,» can set Phyllis McGinley right.

Monica has invented a new set of shoulder pads that he estimates more than 300 players in the league now wear — and they're not just for NFL players; Monica has sold the pads to Ohio State, Michigan, UCLA, and about 115 other Division I college programs.

But at Alabama, with a wonderfully accurate passer (two of them, actually), the best receiver in college football (Amari Cooper), a deeper - than - acknowledged receiving corps, a great offensive line, and a ridiculous set of running backs, it all works.

Since the highest four - year pro success rate from any QB in this sample is 46.1 percent (from both Cousins and, thus far, Dak Prescott), and since 35 of 38 quarterbacks in our draft sample were at least three percentage points lower in the NFL than in college (most were much further away than that), let's set an artificial bar at 49.1 percent.

Bridges brings high - level college experience and a valuable 3 - and - D skill set, with more offensive upside than Michael Kidd - Gilchrist and a considerably high overall floor as the Hornets try and chart their next direction.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

We've already started to set out some of this, pledging to raise corporation tax by less than 1.5 percent to give an Education Maintenance Allowance to college students and grants to university students so that every young learner can afford to support themselves as they develop skills and get qualifications.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN)- New York State is set to offer free tuition to public colleges for families making less than 125 - thousand dollars a year.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

A reclusive secretary and bookkeeper with no personal ties to either Canisius College or D'Youville College set aside most of her more than $ 2 million worth of savings to pay for scholarships at the two institutions after her death last May at the age of 92.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

More than 200 college - age study subjects were hooked up to equipment that tracked a set of psychophysiological markers, such as blood pressure and heart rate as well as other cardiovascular measures that can be used to differentiate a threat response — a state of negative arousal — from a challenge response — a state of positive arousal.

Due to the communal living setting of dormitories (and less than stellar hygiene habits of most college students) I had recurrent strep throat infections and even contracted mononucleosis, a viral infection caused by the Epstein - Barr Virus (EBV), which is implicated in triggering many autoimmune conditions.

This might be a good time to tighten up those privacy settings of yours or at the very least remove the less than flattering photos from your drunken college days.

College dating follows a completely different set of rules than any other dating scene.

More than anything, he's a naïve, early 20 - something college graduate who thinks he knows everything, who just happens to be setting out to prove as much.

Rather than document the cold realities and indulgent pleasantries of another big city with bright lights, Hill is set on exploring the very place that so many creative - types vacate upon the arrival of their first Visa card or college acceptance letter: the American South.

Set in 1951, the coming - of - age story sees Marcus (Logan Lerman) move away to college to avoid being drafted to Korea — only to find that his school is even more oppressive and straight - laced than his family home.

In math, PARCC's college - ready cutoff score is set at a higher level than the MCAS proficiency cutoff

Perhaps, so the argument goes, rather than finding agreement on the academic content, states should merely lay out a set of college - and career - ready standards.

We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.

Just as a draft of K - 12 common standards designed to prepare students for college and the workforce was set to be released for public comment this week, a new report finds that more than half the states have revamped their high school standards to emphasize such readiness upon graduation.

But in mathematics, PARCC set a higher standard for college - ready performance than MCAS» «proficient» standard — and meeting the PARCC standard provided a better indication of whether a student was prepared to earn a «C» grade in a college math course.

In math, PARCC's cutoff score for college - and career - readiness is set at a higher level than the MCAS proficiency cutoff and is better aligned with what it takes to earn «C» grades in college math.

However, we found one important difference between the two exams: PARCC's cutoff scores for college - and career - readiness in math are set at a higher level than the MCAS proficiency cutoff and are better aligned with what it takes to earn «B» grades in college math.

Where does this put Bush with respect to the Common Core curriculum that has been adopted by more than 40 states and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), the consortium of states working to develop a common set of K — 12 tests?

Future First, which sets up alumni networks in more than 375 state schools and colleges across Britain, is now partnering with the charity SGOSS, which recruits volunteers to serve on school governing bodies across England, to encourage more ex-state school students to support their old school by volunteering to join the governing body.

Illinois sparks controversy by setting its bar for proficiency higher than the college - readiness score on the SAT.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Action By More than 80 Colleges and Universities: Over 80 colleges and universities are — in addition to their efforts in other categories — taking actions like engaging in new efforts to recruit students who might not otherwise attend their university, expanding need - based aid for low - income students, setting new goals for increasing the share of low - income students, committing to additional community college transfers and taking new steps to improve outcomes for low - income students once they arrive on campus.

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

And in fairness, MCPS sets an even higher standard for college readiness than the testing organizations do (1650 on the SAT versus 1550, and a 24 on the ACT).

according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.47 Students in economically integrated schools also have higher college attendance rates than students in segregated school settings.48

When school quality increases with the educational standard set by schools, education before college needs not be a hierarchy with private schools offering better quality than public schools.

graduated from high school and both enrolled and persisted in four - year colleges at rates that were four to seven percentage points higher than a carefully matched set of students in Milwaukee Public Schools.

What they are: The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic standards in language arts and math that have been adopted in more than 40 states and intended to be the guideposts for children from kindergarten through 12th grade to ensure that they are ready for college and employment.

The edTPA is a performance assessment utilized by more than 600 college campuses in 40 states to evaluate teaching candidates according to a common set of pedagogical strategies.

Individuals who have graduated from an accredited college or university, but possess a bachelor's degree in an area other than education and have not earned a traditional teaching certificate, can still teach in the state of Tennessee by earning an alternative certification and fulfilling requirements set forth by the state.

Requirements to teach college, for example, can be much different than those of the high school or middle school setting.

This summer, meanwhile, the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation is finalizing new standards, which Education Week called «leaner, more specific and more outcomes - focused than any prior set in the 60 - year history of national teacher - college accreditation.»

In some countries, teaching young people of school age may be carried out in an informal setting, such as within the family (homeschooling), rather than in a formal setting such as a school or college.

As a result, more than a hundred secondary students in grades 6 - 12 have increased their Lexile reading levels to be «on track» for college and career readiness — that is, meeting or exceeding the Lexile goal set for their grade level.

In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

Indeed, the Government Accountability Office in 2010 reported that parents who set up these accounts had triple the median income than those who did not and were twice as likely to be college educated.