Not long ago a fashionable anxiety in many western countries was that youngsters were being over educated that is, schooled beyond society's needs.
They tended to be cynical, hilarious, and over-educated, with years of therapy and contemporary literature behind them, and I was afraid to mention that I was slipping off to church and singing about Jesus on Sundays instead of sleeping late, cooking brunch, and reading the New York Times Book Review as I'd been raised to do.
Mortenson claims that he has educated over 60, 000 of young children and mostly girls and built over 170 schools in Karakoram -the north west of Pakistan and the Wakhan valley of Afghanistan near the Russia and China border during the last 17 years.
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O. of Interface in 1988, concluded that Adelson had not only an enormous appetite for risk and a keen intellect but also the instincts of a street fighter which gave him an edge over many of his more educated peers.
According to her new year-long study of over 4, 000 college-educated professionals and 268 senior executives, conducted by CTI and in partnership with Marie Claire magazine, looking like a leader is the first step to becoming one.
Those who regard Britishness as important tend to be aged over 55, male and under-educated.
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Asian immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants tend to be better educated: half of all Asians over 25 have a college degree, almost twice the national average.
The results are visible in increasing levels of public dissatisfaction in Britain with waiting lists in the health service, congested roads and trains, over-crowded classrooms and an under-educated population.
Mr. Goldstein who has educated tens of thousands of sommeliers over the years, by his own estimation believes that sommeliers are to blame for the overemphasis on overly exact wine-and-food pairing: "The modern-day sommelier feels very strongly about you having the right wine with the right food they become quite draconian, " he said during a phone call last week.
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Over the past few decades Latinos and college-educated whites have flocked to Colorado.
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Sujono and Leung are among the growing number of affluent, Western-educated Asians who are choosing traditional therapies over high-tech modern solutions.
The authorities hand control over to teachers, most of whom are highly educated and motivated, so they can learn from each other and follow the best practices.
Since well-educated blacks are scarce, companies fight over them.
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My research based on 5 million American workers in 240 metropolitan areas over 20 years shows that increases in college-educated workers in an area result in better jobs and significantly higher wages, especially for workers with a high school education or less.
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But since new entrants to the field will be better-educated, the standards of the profession will rise over time and consumers will get better care, she says.
The Lib Dems hope that in Labour-held Bristol West, which is one of the few three-way marginal seats, an affluent, well-educated and left-leaning electorate will desert Labour over the war.
Another hot political debate is over the continuing drift of rural Icelanders, especially the young and educated, to Reykjavik.
Working with sparse footage from the 1980s and '90s, O'Kane still manages to make us fall head over heels for the rag-tag bunch of Antioch College-educated misfits better known as the Gits.
Sure, the studies show that over time index investing will give you the same returns as letting an educated human pick stocks for you.
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Over the past few decades many more of them have been getting more highly educated and taking paid jobs.
McKinsey estimates that over the next decade rich countries and China will need 40m more college-educated workers than they will be able to produce.
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Kids are all over the place, having a ball and presumably also getting educated, at least subliminally or unconsciously.
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Over time, the United States could end up with a workforce that's not as highly educated, not as skilled.
The proportion of pupils educated in schools which are in a poor or bad state fell by more than half over the same period, from 37% of pupils in 2007 to 16% in 2012.
He did better than Mr Kerry among whites with a college education, a group that voted for Mr Bush in 2004, and which helped to carry him over the finish line in Virginia and Colorado, states with higher than average concentrations of the college-educated.
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