Geoffrey Canada, the president of the Harlem Children's Zone who was featured in the 2010 education documentary "Waiting for Superman, " moved from the Bronx to Wyandanch to live with his grandparents and attend high school, between 1967 to 1970.
Consider these facts: A minority student is four times more likely than a non-minority student to attend a high school with very low graduation rates (so-called "dropout factories") and three times less likely to attend a high school with very high graduation rates.
So I became class president in middle school and went on to attend Lowell High School in San Francisco where I continuously was challenged academically, yet given a solid foundation for a commitment to lifelong learning.
The lead plaintiff in this class action, Van-Ness Crawford, has three sons who are forced to attend a high school at which more than 80% of the students are failing mathematics.
While many American kids simply attend their neighborhood high school, eighth graders in big cities like New York face a staggering number of choices.
" He plans to attend his 40th high school reunion in June with pride: "I know I'll be one of the only people who can say they weigh less at that reunion than they did in high school.
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She said she also got a better rate by booking a seat on one of the earliest trains to Washington, where she was going to spend the holiday with her family and attend her 20th high school reunion.
Thanks to the guidance of First Graduate, a non-profit that helps students become first-generation college graduates, I was able to attend an excellent private high school.
The latest idea, to be voted on in May, would create a student count, for the purpose of assigning classes, by taking the actual enrollment, and then adding the number of athletes who live outside their school district boundaries, or attend a public school outside their high school district boundary (for those students attending, say, a magnet or charter school outside their neighborhood).
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The tests are also used by New York City to help determine promotions to the next grade and summer school attendance, and scores can help determine what middle or high school children attend.
High school players can attend the game itself if the expenses are low enough.
He also just made the decision as to which high school he would attend in the fall.
High school athletes give a verbal promise to attend a college and then back out for another school time and time again.
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The plan is for her to finish her final two years of high school in Hawaii and then attend college.
There is now a seat for virtually anyone with a high-school diploma who wants to attend college.
They offer an affordable option for middle-class high-school students who want to attend a four-year college but cannot afford the tuition.
Nationwide, 44% of high-school freshmen go on to attend college and 21% earn a bachelor's degree in six years, the College Board said.
Dawn decided to appeal to her second choice school, Cheam High School, which is a bus ride away but the school Catherine most wanted to attend because many of her friends had a place.
Illegal immigrants will supposedly benefit from the new policy if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16, if they are 30 or younger, if they have lived in the country for at least five years, if they have no criminal record and if they attend or graduated from a U.S. high school, or have served in the military.
Laurie Duncan always knew she would attend a top college and had prepared for that inevitability throughout high school.
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We also suffer from a college attainment gap, as high school graduates from the wealthiest families in our nation are almost certain to continue on to higher education, while just over half of our high school graduates in the poorest quarter of families attend college.
The former foster child had never considered college as part of her future when she was encouraged to attend her first Strive for College session in her junior year of high school.
No one has identified any high school athletes who bought steroids, or what schools they attend.
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In 1970 along with seventeen or so of my high school classmates, I headed off to Worcester Massachusetts to attend The College of The Holy Cross.
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With the help of high-school administrators, Strive for College targets youth who attend schools where 50% or more of the students are eligible to receive free or reduced lunch.
Many of my peers at my public high school were talented and had the grades and test scores to attend four-year universities and colleges, but lacked the guidance or resources to navigate the admissions process.
This is the time of year when high school seniors and their parents make their final decisions about which college they will attend over the next four years.
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Thanks to increased income, his children were freed up to attend the university, said the 53-year-old Zhang, whose own education ended with high school.
In high school, she was the only girl to take physics, and she later went on to attend MIT when the student ratio was 10:1 women.
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