In a high school graduating class of about 125, most students had gone on to college, and few went into the military, which wasn't a particularly big part of the culture.
In place of racial preference, the top 20% of each high-school graduating class in Florida will automatically be admitted to a state university.
Our children are coming out of high school -- in some cases, they're not even graduating high school, but even if they graduate from high school -- ranked lower on math and science scores than many other advanced industrialized countries.
This might be because I went to a very small high school with a graduating class of 13 or because I like to explore topics by asking questions.
And it got me thinking about looking back, asking these seniors in high school, these graduating seniors to look back at themselves in seventh grade, because it's such a potent time in our lives.
"Only 28% of ninth graders in the Detroit public schools are graduating high school, " he notes.
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After graduating high school, Duncan spent four years in the U.S. Navy.
He credits graduating high school to the U.S. Marine Corps, saying his teachers felt sorry for him because he was heading to Vietnam.
All of this directly relates to higher education because such a formative experience in the year after graduating high school increases the value of college.
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Saad has vowed after graduating high school, he will leave Iraq.
Adam Anthony Arndt, 31, knew Michelle Lynne Miller because he supervised her recruitment as she planned to enlist in the Army Reserves after graduating high school, police said.
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As the community begins to recover, be sure to acknowledge the high school seniors who are graduating in the next week, as this is an important milestone to be commemorated.
Along with bringing together all the players in the mining industry, the event was also geared towards young students who will soon be graduating high school and looking towards potential careers.
And before I knew it, you know, when I'm graduating high school, I've been doing something that I loved since you know, I was seven years old and it basically cultivated a dream for me.
Ms. Zhou came to Shenzhen in 2005 after graduating from high school in rural Sichuan province.
After graduating from high school, Purkayastha enrolled in Manhattan's Baruch College but dropped out during orientation week to focus fulltime on truffles.
Checque joined the Navy in 2002 after graduating from high school, according to a brief service record provided by the Defense Department.
After graduating from high school and having no money for college, Ed spent the next year working in the timber industry and saving his earnings.
Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.
Too many of our students are not graduating from high school, and they never receive the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in higher education or in the workplace.
He had grown up in Corsicana and, after graduating from high school, in 1963, he had joined the Navy, serving as a medic in Vietnam, where he was wounded on four occasions.
He had joined the service after graduating from high school during the Great Depression and had been discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II.
The limited options for women who did work, and the postwar propaganda about the glories of homemaking, convinced the young women who were graduating from high school and college in the early 1960s that once you married, the good life was the stay-at-home life.
He joined right after graduating from a high school in Marietta, Ohio, in 2010.
Donito Willey(ph) will be graduating from Jefferson High School in a few weeks.
After graduating from Sebastopol High School, unable to afford college, he found work as a printer with the San Francisco Newspaper Agency.
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Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high-school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.
Emily Nickerson served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in a high school just outside of Madrid after graduating with a double major in English and Spanish.
And I'm going to tell them that in my own life, 35 years after graduating from my high school class, I moved back to my hometown, which I never thought I would do, and I married that kid.
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