Sentences with phrase «younger than some high school»

To put that in perspective, he's actually younger than some high school players from the 2014 class.

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school level.

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Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

Millenials» unique media habits show up in other ways: Nowadays, for example, high schoolers do their initial research into potential colleges and universities on the Internet rather than during an actual trip to a campus; and young media users rely on YouTube videos to learn everything from magic tricks and hair and makeup tips, to cooking secrets.

when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

Further, older students are more than twice as likely as younger students to have attended a vocational or technical high school or a two - year or community college, and much less likely to have attended a private, nonreligious grade and high school.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?

For girls especially, a freshman with talent will be on varsity, so often the JV team is made up of young women who just want to see what high school basketball is like — and most of them discover it's harder than they thought.

It is vital to learn these lessons in high school as the adult world is much less forgiving than high school — and young adults with behavioral or developmental problems often experience deeper feelings of failure as they move into their adult identity.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Not surprisingly, the 9 - 12 year old players in the current study were found to experience linear acceleration magnitudes between those found in 7 - 8 year old players [2] and high school players, although, for rotational acceleration, the 95th percentile magnitude found in this study was less than that found previously in younger players.

In high school I actually wanted to be an OB / GYN, but I knew from a young age that family and being with my family was more important than any job.

In high school and college, young people are usually communicating with peers who are nearby and living lives with similar patterns, but as they all move into adulthood, their lives will scatter and diverge in ways that often make delayed / deferred communications more useful than immediate communications.

As teachers returned today to a high school where a shooter killed 17 people, Florida's governor, Republican Rick Scott, proposed banning the sale of firearms to anyone younger than 21 as part of a three - point plan to prevent gun violence.

We have a skills gap that continues to grow; 41 % of New Yorkers have a high school diploma or less and the young adult unemployment rate is more than double the state rate at 10.5 % with New York City at a rate of 14 %.

Young women hold their own in high school in science, math, and technology, achieving higher grades than men but scoring lower on math SATs.

When Weinberg and his collaborators Eric D. Gould of Hebrew University and David Mustard of the University of Georgia examined young males with no more than a high school education the demographic group that commits the most crime they found that average wages and unemployment rates were directly linked to the incidence of property crimes.

What's more, they added, the sample is heavily weighted to men who played football in college or professionally, exposing them to far more hits to their heads than those who played only on youth or high school teams: These younger players accounted for only 16 brains in the sample of 202.

Surprisingly, it is not just high school athletes suffering concussions; athletes ages 12 to 15 make up almost half (47 percent) of the sports - related concussions seen in the ER, a statistic made even more disturbing by the knowledge that younger children with concussions take a longer time to recover than older children.

When the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't afford to buy a home in suburban Shaker Heights, which boasted one of the country's best school systems, Robert Black decided it would be better to rent than to own until his younger son graduated from high school.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

Young adults ages 18 to 25 are the group that has the highest level of tobacco use, reporting rates of smoking that are nearly 50 percent higher than either high school seniors or adults over age 26.

A new study finds that young adults under 25, including high school grads and college students, are more likely to rate hookah and e-cigarettes as safer than cigarettes, when compared to 25 to 34 - year - olds.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

Covariates included the child's sex, calendar conception year (categorical variable), gestational age, maternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)(BMI < 18.5 = underweight; 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 = normal weight; 25 ≤ BMI < 30 = overweight; BMI ≥ 30 = obese), maternal age at delivery (younger than 20, 20 to 24, 25 to 29, 30 to 34, and ≥ 35 years), maternal education at delivery (≤ high school graduate, some college education, college graduate, postgraduate, or unknown), maternal race / ethnicity (Asian, black, white, or other), and gestational diabetes (yes / no).

Dating a guy younger than you in high school.

Two jokes hit home, both involving Stifler (Seann William Scott), the former high school menace who is now, as a young adult, even more libidinous and irrational than before.

Agent Carter ended up being a fun, if slim, brace of period - isms and classy action with a decidedly enhanced visual style over the pictorially - lifeless S.H.I.E.L.D. Hayley Atwell was better than the show she was in, but the series» widely - spaced high points - in particular, a visit to the Black Widow training school for young evil - doers in Soviet Russia - were pretty high.

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

Perhaps the biggest irony of the film is that Dash (still looking fantastic at 40) and Rudd (in his late 30s), are playing not only younger than they are in their respective roles in the film, but the characters themselves are stars of a TV show that requires them to be high school age.

A by - product of pandering to a young, young audience, its biggest sin is that it alleges a greater basis in reality than its more «adult» contemporaries: The movie endeavours to give credence to the familiar tropes of storybook romance and rags - to - riches by applying them to the politicized zoo known as high school.

Other than the basic premise, that being to hire young - looking police officers to enroll into high schools and investigate crime, 21 Jump Street the movie doesn't have that much in common with the TV show.

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Since then, and now more than ever, my professional goal has been to work to promote more reading in high schools, particularly for young people of color.

A noble objective indeed, but so hard to attain — in a land where high school diplomas signify scant «readiness» and more than a quarter of young people drop out before getting them — that today's push for both universality and readiness impels a lot of folks to cut corners.

We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.

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This increase in concern among school leaders correlates with a recent Department for Education (DfE) research finding that young people's health and wellbeing was worse in 2014 than in 2005; girls in particular recorded higher levels of psychological distress.

She imagined a career in business, but by the time she was 20, she found herself back at her old high school teaching students only two years younger than herself — and she hated it.

Warren Sparrow identified the difficulties that many young boys have in education: «A strange phenomenon in South Africa is that there are more boys than girls in primary school, but this gets reversed in high school and tertiary institutions.»

Ninety - seven percent of young adults from families with high incomes completed high school; more than 90 percent of them earned a regular diploma and 4 percent followed an equivalency test alternative.

Young adults who had participated in sports activities when they were in high school report higher levels of civic engagement than those who did not participate, according to a study from the University of Maryland College Park.

In 1995, more than 1.7 million young adults ages 18 to 24 earned high school credentials by passing an equivalency exam such as the General Educational Development (GED) test.

Less than 4 percent of U.S. young adults with a bachelor's degree are unemployed; it's 14 percent among those without a high school diploma.

The program increased college enrollment by 20 percent for young adults already out of high school with particularly large results for those with annual incomes less than $ 22,000.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Enlisting in the military after high school is an option for both sexes, but more young men than young women sign up for the armed forces.