Sentences with phrase «to be ready for college»

We develop our courses to fully meet the expectation that our students are ready for college after taking the courses... Our courses are put through a fairly rigorous review.

As of the class of 2006, one in four Hispanic students who were ready for college didn't complete a bachelor's degree.

Among those who do graduate, many will not be ready for college or a career where reading and writing are required.

Overall, there's a lot you can do early on so both you and your child are ready for college.

As a result, gaps in understanding are compounded, predictably accumulating to the point that by the time students are 18, far less than half are ready for college - level learning.

Roughly one - third of those who took the popular college entrance exam were ready for college, based on ACT's readiness benchmarks.

A child can be ready for college intellectually, but without these basic skills there's a good chance they may not be successful.

As far away as it may seem right now, your child will be ready for their college years in no time.

The exit strategy is to sell this home when my son is ready for college.

An increase in graduation rates doesn't mean more students are ready for college.

What can be done to speed up those students who are ready for college - level coursework while in high school through strategies such as dual credit and early college?

Our children will not be ready for college and career, they will never get into college and never get a job.

Another teacher said that the system errantly showed that only 2 percent of the state's juniors were ready for college when the actual percentage ranged from the high 30s to the mid 40s.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

Colleges rely on Accuplacer test results to know if new students are ready for college level work.

The K - 12 education system creates a fog when it comes to academic preparation for college, meaning parents and families aren't fully aware about and often times misled on whether or not their child is ready for college by their senior year.

The final lie our state leaders are selling is that the new SAT will tell us who is ready for college success.

«We have strong emphasis on being ready for college and beyond, and that begins in our preK classrooms.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new analysis of data from the Education Commission of the States (ECS) finds that almost every state has some type of dual - enrollment policy, which allows high school students who are ready for college work to enroll in college courses while completing their high school programs.

But as I've argued before, even these heroic efforts are unlikely to add up to much until we dramatically boost the number of young Americans who are ready for college in the first place.

The top - line finding alone — that just 12 percent of high school graduates do not enroll in college within eight years of graduation — provides additional evidence that schools need to continue to focus on preparing all students to be ready for a college environment, whether or not they go right away (or ever).

Another way to make sure that more freshmen are ready for college is to encourage young people who aren't ready for college to head in different directions.

Yes, transformation of our mature and complex public education system will take time, but let's not lose sight of the goal — a Regents diploma that actually means a recipient is ready for college, career and citizenship.

Too many, he explains, «won't be ready for college because they have no clue about which high - school courses they need to take.»

ACT said that of the 1.2 million students throughout the country who took its tests this year, only 22 percent were ready for college - level work in English, mathematics, and science.

We are committed to doing everything that we can so that one day very soon every one of our scholars is ready for college and the world beyond.»

The 2005 ACT College Readiness Benchmark for Reading found that only one - half of the students tested were ready for college - level reading.

Only 6 out of 10 students in the state are ready for college - level work in English and 4 out of 10 students are ready in math.

Charters would be responsible for achievement and growth as well as for benchmarks that traditional schools don't have to meet, such as closing achievement gaps and graduating students who are ready for college without needing remediation.

Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic immigrants in Florida perform differently on reading and mathematics tests, and whether they are differentially likely to get into serious trouble in school, to be truant from school, to graduate from high school, or to be ready for college upon high school graduation.

I recently attended a national conference where hundreds of educators, parents, policy makers, and community leaders gathered to discuss innovative ways to ensure that high school students in this country are ready for college, work and life.

By the time your new grandchild is ready for college, the average cost of in - state tuition, fees, and room and board at a public college may be as high as $ 54k, with private universities averaging around $ 134k per year.

Only 38 Percent of African American and 42 Percent of Latino Parents Think High School Graduates are Ready for College; 83 Percent and 80 Percent, Respectively, Agree with Need to Grade Schools; Lower - Income Parents are Among the Most Likely to See Measuring School Performance as ImportantNew York — While three...

I want my daughter's future to be filled with choices and opportunities — and ultimately, I want her to be ready for college when she graduates from high school.

Raising standards and expectations for students is a monumental challenge, but it is a challenge that North Carolina must meet to ensure that our children are ready for college and entrance into the workforce.

So we have to relearn a lot of how students are going to need to learn if they're going to be able to be ready for college by the time they leave us.

The SAT can not determine whether a student is ready for college success.

Senior Policy Associate Carinne Deeds will be presenting alongside Erica Curry Van - Ee, Founder, Urban Curry Consulting (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Daniel Tsin, Director of Data and Accountability, Urban Alliance on the ways in which afterschool is providing social and emotional learning opportunities aimed at ensuring that all kids are ready for college, work, and life.

Most of the Baltimore region's high school students aren't on track to be ready for college courses or jobs when they graduate, based on the first round of scores on new state tests.

Your kids will be ready for college in the blink of an eye.

Preparing graduates who are ready for college, are independent learners, critical thinkers, and primed for careers in places like Research Triangle Park.

Sandoval says he is still working with state and federal officials to find ways to pool different funding streams to support the framework, and has found opportunities in the push to ensure students are ready for college and careers.

Wide ranged efforts to promote deeper learning in the STEM subjects will also help ensure that all students are ready for college or for the workforce when they graduate from high school and that they are prepared to take their place as productive, full participants in society.

«Bring this back to us when you're ready for college, and we'll have a scholarship for you.»