This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship.
What incentives did Bianca have to leave home and spend such an outrageous sum at a four-year school?
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"There was definitely pressure" to go to a four-year school, he told me.
Today, less than 30 percent of students in the bottom of the income scale enroll in a four-year school, and of those less than half graduate.
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She'll finally get her associate's degree in May, and then she plans to move on to a four-year school, the University of Central Florida, to study forensics.
Those agreements allow students to receive their associate's degrees if they earned enough credits toward them but didn't actually obtain them before heading to a four-year school.
These campuses enroll 46 percent of all U.S. college students, playing a key role in educating the students who can't afford or can't get into a four-year school.
It's true that those with bachelor's degrees typically earn more over a lifetime than those with a two-year degree, but that's little consolation to those who are discouraged from going to community colleges and end up dropping out of a four-year school without a degree.
Anderson told the story of Frank Reed, a fifty-four-year-old American private-school director who was taken hostage and held in solitary confinement for four months before being put in with Anderson.
While high-quality, part-time pre-school education (for three- and four-year-olds) seems to help children cope with school, dumping babies in nurseries all day long before they are one is also pretty clearly bad for them.
Phil Hindle said it was "really challenging" to get his six-year-old son Sam ready to go to Coten End Primary School, in Warwick, each morning and then to take four-year-old son Rowan to Emscote Primary School.
College-readiness figures like the ones my opponent cites look only at 17-year-old high-school graduates who satisfy minimal entrance requirements for four-year colleges.
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In 2010 around half of American three- and four-year-olds went to some sort of pre-school, their parents say.
They offer an affordable option for middle-class high-school students who want to attend a four-year college but cannot afford the tuition.
The government has promised that there will be free places available in pre-school classes for all four-year-olds and two thirds of three-year-olds by 2002.
Does the school offer a specific four-year degree in entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial studies, or a concentration in entrepreneurship within the framework of an undergraduate business degree?
Take a well-known statistic: As recently as the 1970s, there was little difference in the lifetime earning potential between a high school grad and a four-year-college degree holder.
The children of the rich have a four-year advantage because they attend nursery, prep school and kindergarten even before they go into Grade 1, while the children of the poor go straight into Grade 1.
Nearly three-quarters of five-year-olds are enrolled in public kindergarten or nursery school, yet that number drops to 44 percent for four-year-olds and a mere 20 percent, or just one in five, of three-year-olds.
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And he likely would have been flummoxed by the ever-increasing expense of higher education: The cost of a four-year private college rose 4.2 percent between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 school years, according to the College Board's Trends In College Pricing.
"There's over 400, 000 low-income high school seniors every year who (are) qualified to go to a four-year college, and for whatever reason they just don't go, " Carter said.
And I think you can bet that this administration continues to work on solutions to improve the delivery of the educational system beyond high school but not in a four-year college environment, and to ensure that individuals have the training necessary if they're not going to go on to a four-year education to be able to undertake the jobs of the 21st century.
According to IPEDS, about 70 percent of undergraduate students attended public four-year and two-year institutions during the 2007-2008 school year.
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In 1995, the top five draft selections were four first-year college students and a student in his final year of high school.
When most new jobs in America require more than a high school diploma, higher education -- whether at a four-year college, at a two-year program -- it can't be a luxury.
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The two-year grand jury investigation resulted in charges being brought against four priests and a Catholic school teacher last month.
Mr. Castro, a 52-year-old musician and former school-bus driver, faces four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, said city prosecutor Victor Perez.
In fact, on average, the holder of a four-year college degree will earn 62% more over their lifetimes than a typical high-school graduate.
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