Sentences with phrase «than a high school education today»

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

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January 25, 2018 — MILFORD, MA — Today, Consigli Construction Co., Inc. hosted more than 40 teachers, guidance counselors and administrators from 11 local high schools at its Milford headquarters for a professional development workshop in partnership with the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).

Single parents who are older than recent high school graduates might worry that they will be the only ones their age in college, but returning to higher education is not uncommon today.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

Tisch says that only slightly more than one third, or 37.2 percent, of today's ninth graders will graduate high school college or career ready, and most of those who attend higher education institutions will have to take costly remedial classes.

Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce estimates that more than a third of jobs today only require a high - school diploma or less.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

It should include more (and better) specialized charters created in systematic ways: schools that focus on STEM, career and technical education, high - ability learners, special education, socioeconomic integration, and other realms within the K — 12 universe that cry out for better options than what's there today.

In response to the policy pamphlet, the Church of England's chief education officer Reverend Nigel Genders said: «The Church of England continues to be committed to the provision of high quality RE in schools, which is vital for a balanced understanding of the world today where more than 80 per cent of the population are people of faith.

The Bush administration released a fiscal year 2008 budget request today that includes new money to help struggling schools and a renewed push to retool high schools, but would provide less money overall for the U.S. Department of Education than a fiscal year 2007 spending bill approved by the House last week.

Today, the nation's high school graduation rate is at a record high — more than 84 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education — dropout rates are hitting historic lows, and more students than ever are attending college.

(New York, NY)-- More than 200 students and parents joined leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY on the steps of City Hall today to bring attention to a hidden tax that is costing New York City high school graduates an estimated $ 63 million annually.

A high school education in the 1890's provided a more solid understanding of mathematics, geography and literature than does most college degrees today.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

For the stakes on gradespan testing to be even higher than they are today, one has to assume that such testing is used not only to monitor the education system but also to actively punish schools with low test results.

More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation's schools are still plagued by inequalities, yet the High Court today declines to intervene on behalf of equal educational opportunity for all children.

«With more than 700,000 adults taking high school equivalency exams annually and pass rates well below 70 percent in many states, ensuring success on these tests is not only crucial to the personal and professional success of adult learners taking them — it's also vital to the continued strength of our national workforce and economy,» said Peter Cohen, president of McGraw - Hill School Education Group, in a press release school equivalency exams annually and pass rates well below 70 percent in many states, ensuring success on these tests is not only crucial to the personal and professional success of adult learners taking them — it's also vital to the continued strength of our national workforce and economy,» said Peter Cohen, president of McGraw - Hill School Education Group, in a press release School Education Group, in a press release today.

Becoming a parent should be more intentional, and these relationship decisions should be embedded within what Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill have called the «success sequence»: completing at least a high - school education, getting a job, marrying, and then having children — in that order.50 For some twentysomethings in a good relationship, this may mean marrying earlier than today's social norms suggest.