John Ledford has done pretty well for a 35-year-old college dropout who never stopped watching cartoons.
Adeo Ressi is a college dropout who got into the education business in a global way.
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The college dropout was an overwhelming commercial and critical success, and West found fans outside hip-hop circles.
His partner, Rudy Theale, 25, is a community college dropout and inveterate tinkerer.
Shigeta, a college dropout, started shilling phones via his Hikari Tsushin in 1988 and rapidly grew with the bubble economy.
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The college dropout founded Gateway--until a few years ago known as Gateway 2000--in an Iowa farmhouse with his brother Norm in 1985.
Introduced to Hefner by a friend, Madison was a 22-year-old Hooters waitress and college dropout when she got her first invitation to go clubbing with the Playboy mogul and several Playmates.
After all, Microsoft founder BillGatesBill Gates is a college dropout.
The college dropout quickly gained a reputation as a demanding manager, a brilliant pitchman and someone who seemed to have a knack for knowing with the future would bring.
"Your brain is a muscle, too, " says Newton, a college dropout and former graphic design teacher who was once the science adviser on the Discovery Channel's hit series MythBusters.
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Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a portly college dropout who lives, at the age of thirty-five, with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow) and works for his father, unhappily, in a commercial real-estate company.
Mark Zuckerberg, of course the young, male college dropout.
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Shaw feels students need more rigorous majors to prepare them for the job market, but the late college dropout Steve Jobs pointed to a calligraphy class that he audited as one of his major commercial inspirations.
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But the future of Indian Country rests on something more: the education we provide our children. (Applause.) We know that Native Americans face some of the lowest matriculation rates and highest high school and college dropout rates.
In the United States, we seem to have our own tradition of the college-dropout-turned-business-mogul.
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Either way, the answer to rising college costs and dropout and debt rates is not to cut from education further or turn people off to college altogether.
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The president has also called for federal budget funds for charter schools, where he sees thriving education innovations taking place, and for proven programs focusing on dropout prevention and college enrollment.
We need to have a big tax cut for high-income people, and we need to cut all these investments and cut all this education and repeal the student loan law, make college loans more expensive and increase the dropout rate.
Consequently, black children also have a far higher high school dropout rate and a lower rate of college enrollment.
But we have to remember there's still educational disparities like higher dropout rates in certain groups, lower college enrollment rates in others.
If they don't see college as a real option they are even more likely to dropout.
This week, in an email conversation, he set the record straight on his college years (turns out the guy holds two degrees, the dropout story is just a myth), shared some insight into the long-term plan for Skillshare and why traditional education will never be able to keep up with technology.
We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation, and half of the students who begin college never finish.
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