By the time high school graduation came around, I'd already started looking into junior-year-abroad programs.
In addition to the traditional high school graduation requirements, we do have AJ ROTC programs.
Texas public schools rank in the bottom third for both spending per pupil and high school graduation rates.
The high school graduation rate for Baltimore City schools is 56.4%.
Since that dinner after my high school graduation, I have lived in two countries, six cities and eight different apartments.
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The teen book club on campus encourages youths to enroll in the community college after high school graduation, and Quick did.
Holloway, from the affluent Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Mountain Brook, was on a high school graduation trip with classmates and parent chaperones.
Rising high school graduation rates translate into a crush on college admissions offices, notes Brian Bethune, an economist at Global Insight, a consultancy in Waltham, Mass.
He envisions it as a way to close the achievement gap for poor and minority students, improve high school graduation rates and ultimately strengthen the workforce.
The goal is to make sure that all African American students receive an education that fully prepares them for high school graduation, college completion, and productive careers.
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There is also increasing evidence that interventions can produce middle-to longer-run effects on school achievement, special education placement, grade retention, disruptive behavior and delinquency and high school graduation.
According to the Federal Reserve, these students have a high school graduation rate six to eight percentage points lower than those who have home access to the Internet.
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Accepted students are guaranteed a spot through high school graduation.
Public high school graduation rates peaked around 1970, and data show that reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) fell slightly between 1992 and 2008.
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But then, after high school graduation, her worst nightmare occurred.
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She missed the deadline for going back to get the legal paperwork done by one day, and she is in danger of missing her high school graduation on Saturday.
Get Schooled uses the power of media and popular culture to motivate and inspire young people, their families and teachers to improve high school graduation rates and college-going rates.
Last summer Kirk Gibson, the manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks, raised some eyebrows when he decided to skip his son's high school graduation in Michigan in order to spend more time at the office.
Participants who pass this test are awarded high school graduation certificates by the Department of Education, which enable them to continue to higher education or seek formal employment at a similar level to formal school graduates.
Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.
Because the standards of the Bac have been lowered over the generations so that politicians could meet their goal of high school graduation rates, the top schools in the country routinely have 100% Bac passage rates, and often even 100% honors Bac rates.
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In other words, their standard of living will always be tied to their wealthiest parent's current lifestyle, long after the divorce is a distant memory, pending their eventual emancipation (ranging from high school graduation to age 21, or beyond, depending on where you live).
But they have not surpassed whites either in high school graduation or college attendance--only in a statistic that combines both a measure of educational success (going to college) with one of failure (dropping out of high school, which reduces the denominator and thereby increases the overall number).
In the middle of the prior decade, NBA players and owners, amid concern over the flight of high schoolers directly into the pros, changed its eligibility requirements so that a player had to be 19 years of age in the calendar year of the draft and a year removed from high school graduation.
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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.
At the time of his high-school graduation, in 2010, his parents bought space in the West Windsor and Plainsboro High School North yearbook.
Despite a diverse population of students, a quarter of whom were immigrants, the province's high-school graduation rate rose from 68% to 82%.
But Ms. Kirschner has since used it for a son's high-school graduation bash and other family events as a way of signaling where guests should enter.
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Hazara girls have one of the highest high-school graduation rates in the country, and Hazara women have become some of the most visible symbols of the new Afghanistan.
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