Sentences with phrase «years of college behind»

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Standing behind them was Ralph Sampson, three - time college National Player of the Year and future four - time NBA All - Star.

I was 23 years old, under $ 130,000 of college and law school debt - and I had just launched DiscoverOrg: a company with no brand recognition, no financing, no real experience behind it.

In his sophomore year of college he played behind All - America outside linebacker Cornelius Bennett, now with the Atlanta Falcons, who set a school single - season record with 10 sacks.

As a high schooler back in Fort Wayne, Marcus had dreamed of suiting up in the Big Ten for Purdue, and with two years of junior college behind him he went looking for a Division I NCAA school.

Second - year Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema left behind one of the stablest jobs in college football to take on a rebuild in the SEC West.

The team, if not staffed by highly experienced players, is led by a coach with many years of college competition behind him.

Perhaps Spurrier's drive to win is his way of compensating for losses during his long - ago college career or for the frustration of sitting on the bench behind John Brodie for the better part of his nine years with the San Francisco 49ers.

I, on the other hand, dropped out of college after a year and a half, followed a boyfriend to Colorado, married him and did a lot of silly stuff before landing on my feet as a journalist in my mid-20s, a divorce already behind me.

«I'm proud that college affordability topped our list of priorities last year, but we can not leave any student behind,» Klein said.

Behind the scenes, local letter writer Mitchell Langbert, a Brooklyn College professor and former Republican committee member who tried starting a Catskills chapter of the Tea Party last year, has been stirring the pot... by passing on information he's been researching and by fueling his local blog on a regular basis.

You have about five years of college experience behind you.

Years of low pay as a graduate student and postdoc probably mean you are hopelessly behind many who started work right after college.

Katie Woolley is a couple of years behind Cooke — a Ph.D. student at the college — but she is already just as cynical: «Before you've even finished your Ph.D.,» she says, «you know the odds are against you.»

The story behind the job is that every Wednesday of my senior year of college, I drove about 70 miles round - trip to my unpaid internship at a gallery in Santa Monica.

Im a 21 year old proud mom of a girl and boy.Im in college getting my bachelor's degree in criminal justice.I love singing and dancing.I do nt mind dating somebody in the army and ill stand behind u 100 %

Lion's Den (Unrated) Argentine crime saga about a pregnant, 25 year - old college student (Martina Gusman) who ends up raising her baby (Tomas Plotinsky) behind bars and falling in love with a fellow inmate (Laura Garcia) after murdering the father of her child and his gay lover (Rodrigo Santoro) in a jealous rage.

In form and content, Annihilation resembles Stalker, with Natalie Portman's Lena, a cellular biologist and college professor with a military background, who enters the «Shimmer,» an ever - expanding, rainbow - colored barrier of possibly alien origin, to undercover both the true nature of the Shimmer and the mystery behind her husband Kane's (Oscar Isaac) year - long disappearance and sudden reappearance.

Studies continue to show boys and men falling behind: young women caught up with young men in the percentage of those with four years of college in the early 1990s, and by 2009 far surpassed them, 36 percent to 27 percent.

But currently, Latino students lag behind white students in some key measures of educational attainment, such as high school graduation, enrollment in two - or four - year colleges, and college completion rates.

Two - thirds of the money comes from private donors, for whom Canada fine - tunes his pitch: Giving $ 5,000 a year to help a kid go to college beats the $ 50,000 it would cost to keep him behind bars.

Like No Child Left Behind, ESSA requires states to test students every year, but provides a bit more flexibility for states to try out new kinds of tests or use a nationally recognized college entrance test at the high school level.

The brains behind the Common Core standards, David Coleman, became president of the College Board last year.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

«It is remarkable to see a system of schools that is not only taking students who are one or more grade levels behind in math and reading, but also making sure that every single graduate is accepted into a four - year college,» said Miller, who opened the envelope and revealed the winner.

While many of our students arrive at their first day of school many years behind on academic achievement measures, over the course of their tenure at a school, students should close the gap between their own achievement profile and that of a college - ready student profile.

Even teachers who have been out of college only a few years might feel as though they have fallen behind.

But in the last few years, the White House has become a vocal supporter of Common Core, including provisions in its Race To The Top grant program and No Child Left Behind waiver program that states implement «college and career ready standards.»

Even more shocking to such thinking is the fact that American 15 - year - olds from college - educated homes rank 26th in the world in reading, trailing behind a long list of nations that include Poland (eighth) and Turkey (23rd).

The modern economy has left behind the nearly two - thirds of workers without a college degree.5 Over the past 50 years, job creation has mainly been in industries such as health care; business and financial services; education; and government services, where a large proportion of jobs require some postsecondary training or college degrees.6 Meanwhile, the share of jobs in industries that historically have not required any postsecondary training has shrunk dramatically.

Slipping behind the wheel of a 2014 Jeep Wrangler is like sitting down to a home - cooked meal after a year away at college.

My 12 - year - old self crafted a fiscal strategy that, when combined with my offer of a 49 - percent share of ownership in the car in return for my parents» contribution of 80 - percent of the purchase price, would see me behind the wheel of a Typhoon by the time I hit college.

Professional Writers and Authors: does this label exist because you went to college and sat behind a desk for 4 - 6 years and received that shiny piece of paper called a degree?

For fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even - tempered, mild - mannered man: a stay - at - home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college.

** Previously published as Her Heart's Secret Wish ** With a renowned reputation as a player, she had everything figured out...Twenty - year - old college student, Natasha is the life of every party and the reason behind many celebrations.

The Vet School Open House is a huge student - organized event every year where we open the doors to our college and let the public get to see exclusively behind the scenes of Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sccollege and let the public get to see exclusively behind the scenes of Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical ScCollege of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.

Named since 2012 after Audrey Irmas, board member of the Center of Curatorial Studies Bard College and the philanthropist behind the $ 25,000 prize, the CCS Award for Curatorial Excellence has been celebrating the work of influential curators internationally for 18 years.

Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from photographic sources.

Because the recent high school or college graduate presents a unique set of challenges to resume writing, many other areas of a person's history may end up on the resume that probably would not for those who have a few years of work history behind them.