Sentences with phrase «too high dropout»

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On the other hand, every guy who has contacted me first online has been a major loser: in prison, unemployed high school dropout, toooo smoooth ladykiller, mentally ill and unable to work, totally uneducated (can't spell or use proper grammar), or just too awkward socially (middle aged and never been married, but desperate).

Program when, as a program director at an education nonprofit in Mobile, Ala., he mobilized his community — not just those already working in schools — to tackle together a persistent problem: a too - high dropout rate.

The G.E.D. has been around for a long time, too, meant as a second chance for dropouts and others who just never got around to completing a regular high school diploma «on schedule.»

How, too, could the district move the needle on student achievement, on high dropout rates, and on families getting frustrated with dismal numbers and jumping ship for other districts or competing charter schools?

New York risked a high school dropout crisis if they set the bar too high.

The dropout problem is not one that can be addressed exclusively at the middle or high school levels; by then it is too late for some students.

Building a Grad Nation: 2014 Annual Report «The new «Building a Grad Nation» report ought to be required reading for those who believe that the high school dropout is too intractable to successfully take on.»

Advocates of teacher - training programs say one reason for the relatively high dropout rate is the traditional teacher education, which they say relies too heavily on classroom theory instead of arming newcomers with practical tactics to cope with a packed classroom of students with divergent abilities, language barriers or difficulty sitting still for 30 minutes.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

The combination of the high dropout rate from U.S. high schools and a harsh economy puts too many uncredentialed young people at great risk, argues Ransel, principal of an alternative high school in Las Vegas.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

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.

We know, too, that in high school dropout factories, students of color are often cheated out of getting highly effective teachers.

The newer high - quality programs discussed earlier are too new for a meaningful cost - benefit study, and their treatment groups may be biased by program dropouts, meaning that a valid evaluation of long - term costs and benefits may not be possible using these newer studies.

«The new «Building a Grad Nation» report ought to be required reading for those who believe that the high school dropout problem is too intractable to successfully take on.»

Building a Grad Nation: 2014 Annual Report «The new «Building a Grad Nation» report ought to be required reading for those who believe that the high school dropout is too intractable to successfully take on.»