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Even those who do well in school, like the three girls in the article, will struggle: only about a quarter of low-income eighth graders with above-average scores get a degree, yet 30 percent of students with lower scores but more money will.
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The for-profit sector has been tarnished by minimal admission standards, low rates of degree completion, and high loan default rates, hardly the kind of brand association a world-renowned university would seek out.
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They concluded that changes in low-level clouds contributed most to differences in the degree of warming those models predicted.
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That compares with studies of adopted children, and of first-and second-degree relations, which produce figures as low as 30%, and at the highest 50%.
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Joyce is an immigrant from a low-income family with big dreams of pursuing a PhD after graduating in 2010 with a degree in genetics.
WHITEHOUSE: Engage and Connect
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In reality, more than half of low-income college-ready students don't enroll in four-year bachelor's degree programs because they can't afford the cost.
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The determining factor in medium preference may not be the degree of industrialization, but rather whether the country falls into a high-context or low-context culture.
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The Aspen Prize recognizes community college excellence in the areas of student learning, degree completion, labor market success in securing good jobs after college, and minority and low-income student success.
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They remember the Poll Tax - and they also know that local taxation raises a relatively low proportion of council funding but provokes a huge degree of voter ire.
BBC: Planning for the future
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Of those who are staying, Low's options were the most unusual, as he has completed a law degree, has a part-time summer job with a firm of solicitors and has had an offer of more work.
BBC: Lloyd-Weston joins Cheltenham as three extend deals
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By developing low-cost distance education programs new companies have found new markets, especially among working adults who want to get a degree without giving up their full-time jobs.
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