Over 1 million students don't finish high school each year -- nearly one in three.
His wife and daughter followed that April, while his youngest son stayed behind in New Canaan to finish high school.
The girls can finish high school on site, take computer classes or learn vocational skills like sewing or jewelry-making.
And even among the employed, those who finished college make twice as much as those who failed to finish high school.
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Among Americans who did not finish high school, 38 percent have wireless net access and 20 percent report being cell-only wireless users.
That former group of white people who do not finish high school is now about halved as a percentage of the population.
She says she is going to finish high school and then really go ahead with her modeling ambitions and is considering acting.
Legal immigrants to the country are more likely to have failed to finish high school than either native-born Americans or immigrants to other English-speaking countries.
However, even if you didn't finish high school or have other factors you can't change, you can still challenge your brain to preserve mental function, Fiocco says.
Some of the highest smoking rates are in Southern states, and the proportion of women who failed to finish high school is also highest in the South.
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Their rigorous measurement scheme has revealed that schools still need to do a lot better teaching aboriginal and immigrant children and ensuring that more students finish high school.
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As soon as they finish high school or as soon as I finish grammar school, I have to work through high school and sometimes not even go to college.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
Why not set it up so departments inside companies can champion a class of low-income kindergarteners, setting aside college money (in the form of equity in their own company) for whomever stays on to finish high school?
She is also a vocal supporter of the DREAM Act, a bill that aims to offer an opportunity for legalization to illegal immigrants who finish high school and go on to college or enlist in the military.
"We chose not to put lots of shares in trust for our children because we wanted them to finish high school, go to college, get married and be goal-oriented, " says Knight, whose company ranks 70 on our 200 Best list.
In a landmark study, the Brookings Institution found that young adults who finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children have just a 2% chance of falling into poverty and a 74% chance of ending up in the middle class.
The plan is for her to finish her final two years of high school in Hawaii and then attend college.
On marathon day, they joined a group of close friends who had met at Stoneham High School, gathering near the finish line to cheer another friend, a firefighter from Somerville, Mass.
The goal: provide high school students a safe, drug-free environment where they can finish their education.
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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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