Sentences with phrase «whose highest level of education»

Nearly half (46 %) have parents whose highest level of education was high school or less.

CPE's report investigates the 12 percent of high school graduates who didn't enroll in college, and it reveals some interesting, though not necessarily surprising, trends: They are more likely to be male, two out of three come from the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, and about half have parents whose highest level of education is a high school diploma or less.

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The data shows similar employment barriers also exist for the children of immigrants, especially those whose parents are visible minorities, despite the fact they achieve higher levels of education than Canadian - born children.

The award recognizes «an AFW member whose leadership has advanced the role of women in the WSU system and / or who has demonstrated leadership in higher education, the community or her profession at the local, state, regional, national or international level.»

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

If anything, it is the «advantaged» U.S. students (those whose parents have a high level of education) who are falling short in international comparisons.

Dr Raju, whose portfolio covers all aspects of India's schools and higher education policy, led the high - level delegation, which included senior government officials and 22 Vice-Chancellors.

That ranged from a high of 87 percent among students whose parents had the highest level of income and education to 58 percent of those whose parents were the least educated, poorest, and largely unskilled.

Then again, it is the ministry whose three objectives «focus on establishing high levels of student achievement; reducing the gaps in student achievement; and ensuring high levels of public confidence in public education» [vi].

When the children at risk were placed in high - quality classrooms, these gaps were eliminated: children from low - education households achieved at the same level as those whose mothers had a college degree, and children displaying prior problem behavior showed achievement and adjustment levels identical to children who had no history of problems.

Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman, whose state's performance on NAEP this year was questioned by this publication after revelations of high exclusion levels (including a 27 percent exclusion rate for eighth - graders in special ed on NAEP's reading exam, and an 18 percent exclusion rate of 14 percent of eighth - grade special ed kids from NAEP's math exam):

(a) There is established within the Federal Government an Interagency Committee on Handicapped Employees (hereinafter in this section referred to as the «Committee»), comprised of such members as the President may select, including the following (or their designees whose positions are Executive Level IV or higher): the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, the Administrator of Veterans» Affairs, and the Secretaries of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare.

The recipient may be a public librarian, academic librarian, school librarian (public or private), an educator (pre K - 12 or any level therein, or higher education), or youth literature advocate whose vocation, work, volunteer service or ongoing promotion of books with and / or on behalf of youth is significant and sustained.

The Graduate Diploma offered by INTO City, University of London provides a route for those students whose higher education qualifications do not meet the entry requirements for their Masters programme Level.

«A longitudinal study of 584 children from intact families indicated that children whose fathers are highly involved with them attain higher levels of education and economic self - sufficiency than children whose fathers are not highly involved.

Absenteeism appears to be higher amongst those whose carer has low levels of school education and who has experienced racial discrimination.