Sentences with phrase «still dropping out of high school»

But here at the Alliance we continue to keep the eye on the fact that over 4,000 students every day are still dropping out of high school.

But with roughly 5,500 kids across the state still dropping out of high school every year, Professor Reville and others acknowledge that Massachusetts, widely recognized as having the nation's leading education system, still has a long way to go.

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Yahoo is expected to leave Tumblr safely in the hands of founder David Karp, the new poster boy for dropping out of high school at 15 and still managing to do all right.

Unfortunately for them, one - off state tests don't yield comparable results, and discrepant proficiency bars are much of what went wrong with NCLB — so the drop - out states that devise their own assessments still won't know how their kids and schools compare with those in other states or with the nation as a whole or whether their high school graduates are indeed college ready.

The Virginia Early Warning System (VEWS) relies on readily available data — housed at the school — to predict which students are at risk for dropping out of high school; target resources at the school - and division - level to support students not on track to graduate while they are still in school and before they drop out; examine patterns and identify school climate issues that may contribute to disproportionate dropout rates.

Their students may be doing better than traditional public school students, but they're still dropping out of college at alarmingly high rates, and earning low wages.

But we still have about 750,000 kids every year, every year, dropping out of high school.

Ryan's path to success was anything but ordinary — he grew up in an LA gang, lived with a meth addicted father, landed in jail numerous times, and dropped out of high school his freshman year, yet still managed to transform his life from that of a criminal to a professional.

Mr. Wylie, who has described himself a «gay Canadian vegan,» dropped out of high school but discovered a genius for coding and, still in his teens, began working for political campaigns.

The school originally chose to redesign itself into an SF institution because, besides having many special programs to help high - risk youth, it was still experiencing extremely high drop - out rates, low rates of college enrollment among its graduates, and poor academic performance of its students.

A woman with a graduate degree whose husband dropped out of high school in 1960 could still enjoy household income 40 % above the national average; by 2005, such a couple would earn 8 % below it.