Sentences with phrase «where fewer graduates»

Baltimore is not alone among large urban districts in essentially having two tiers of high schools: a handful of selective enrollment high schools and a larger group of lottery - admission or neighborhood schools where fewer graduates go on to college.

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They do not trust that hard work will get them where they want to be, or believe that the best way through life is to graduate, get a career, marry, buy a car and house, and have kids, although they know a few people who have done this.

«I have only a few, in fact not more than 10,000 of them left in the entire globe where they have been schooling in the US, UK, Asian countries and South Africa — they have graduated and have come home.»

In Canada, Lesley McKarney tell us, teaching is one of only a few fields where recent graduates can expect multiple job offers.

Of the 15 hydrogeologists in the Denver office where Zeiler works, only three have Ph.D. s. That's typical of the field as a whole: AGI estimates that university programs graduate five times as many M.S. students as Ph.D. s. Its figures show that about 18,000 hydrologists and hydrogeologists now work in the environmental industry, a few thousand in the mining and petroleum industries, and about 850 in academia, the only sector for which a doctorate is required.

A graduate student working with Rudnick made the connection between the survey and the microwave map: The cold spot corresponds to a region of the sky, 40 times the area of the full moon as seen from Earth, where relatively few galaxies have turned up.

(We tried hard to find one calling the South Pole home, but after spending a few months bundled in coats and snow boots on Appian Way, it looks like none of our graduates have opted to work where the temperature sometimes falls to -135 degrees.)

Imagine a high school where every course is challenging, all students choose (and are academically strong enough) to be there, discipline problems are few, teachers are knowledgeable and attentive, pretty much everyone earns a diploma, and virtually all graduates go on to good colleges.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

But the Senate has nixed the so - called Murphy Amendment, which would require states to identify and intervene in their lowest - performing schools; high schools with fewer than 67 % on - time graduates; and any school where disadvantaged or disabled students fall short of standardized test goals for two consecutive years.

In October, he pitched a plan to Kline: The federal government could mandate specific circumstances in which states and districts would have to intervene in a school — for example, in high school «dropout factories» where few students graduate.

Most impressive is a new requirement that states intervene in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest and in high schools where fewer than 67 percent of students graduate on time.

Fewer than half of the male Black and Hispanic students graduate, which, given the correlation between education and incarceration rates, means that where the road to life - chances divides, these young men are more likely to be propelled along the route that leads through prison rather than that leading through college.

States must intervene to help the weakest 5 percent of all schools, high schools that graduate fewer than 67 percent of their students on time (the national norm exceeds 80 percent) and schools where a subgroup of students «consistently underperforms.»

GREENWICH, Conn. — Just a few minutes» drive from the polo fields, the fieldstone walls guarding 10 - acre estates and the Greenwich Country Day School, from which the elder George Bush graduated in 1937, is far denser terrain, where the homes are smaller and closer together and part of a public housing complex that seems escaped from New York City.

Graduate and medical students who don't know where they'll be in a few years are common residents of Waypoint Homes, as well.

making illegal campaign contributions as the head of a Private College where very few students actually graduated, yet they were enticed to enroll and take out huge student loans with promises of high paying jobs in the Medical Field!

A recent study found that very few college students factor in cost when deciding where to attend school.College costs are skyrocketing, leaving more students graduating with a mountain of debt.

After graduating, he moved to the Pacific Northwest for a few years where he enjoyed living near the Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains.

After graduating, she moved to the pacific northwest where she practiced emergency medicine for a few years.

With that done you get chucked into a few races in the Red Bull championship, before graduating to the Moto3 class where the career mode beings proper.

I meet David Schroeter last summer at the Lychee One Gallery during the group exhibition «Summer Blue», where he was presenting few of his paintings right after graduating from the Royal College of Art.

If we follow the US's lead then we will be in a position where there are fewer «old boys» clubs at firms and graduates from across the spectrum will want, and be able to, bring their unique talents to the profession.

After graduating from Furman University in 1990, Kevin worked as a sportswriter for a few years before attending the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he graduated in 1995.

Graduate and medical students who don't know where they'll be in a few years are common residents of Waypoint Homes, as well.

The South East, Yorkshire and Scotland were the areas where the fewest percentage of graduates worked in their chosen industry (43 per cent).

Usually, graduates will take a slightly meandering path through a few different roles first, where they're able to build up their skills and their contacts before moving into something they're truly passionate about.

While there are lots of jobs around, there's also a lot of young talent, especially in a competitive commercial area such as sales where a range of exciting sales jobs and focused graduate programmes currently exist for the chosen few.

Professors may teach large classes of several hundred students (often with the help of graduate teaching assistants), smaller classes of about 40 to 50 students, seminars with just a few students, or laboratories where students practice the subject matter.