At my last school job, the students were typing papers on iMacs that were six years old.
By the age of 11, he had already settled on his future career when he took an after-school job at a tailor's.
Either way, I started figuring out that if I wanted something, I would have to go after it, whether that was an after-school job or leadership positions at my school.
Still, judging by the bot manning the bar at the APEC forum in Busan, South Korea, we're inching ever closer to the day when ex-jocks don't have a guaranteed post-high school job at that local bar that sells booze to underage football players.
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But acting to Reagan was the equivalent of a high school summer job.
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The teen number includes both full-time students looking for full- or part-time work, and teens who are out of school and job hunting.
The New Options Project, an investment of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is currently testing tools to break down barriers to employment among out-of-school, job-seeking young adults while meeting employer demands for qualified entry-level workers.
And for junior and senior year, graduate school, and job training, there is a lifetime learning credit.
We have people coming home from wars, coming home from prisons, coming out of high school with no job prospects whatsoever.
The students at Stanford Business School and the job-hopping members of the Five O'Clock Club might have a clear idea of the bargain they strike with employers.
More and more college grads are leaving school with no job prospects and thousands in student loans, and the importance of a college degree seems like a Catch 22.
Today, options are so limitless that many (privileged) young people try to avoid making these decisions entirely staying in school longer, job hopping, dating around, pushing the average age of first marriage and child higher and higher.
The city's nearly 30, 000 teachers walked out on September 10, objecting to a longer school day, evaluations tied to student performance and job losses from school closings.
If a school were not doing the job, Mom could remove her child and place him in another school -- public, private or parochial.
Unfortunately, increased minimum wages induce some teenagers to drop out of high school and take a job.
The bottom line, Davis-Alldritt said, is that the school nurse's job tends to be at risk during budget cut time.
This credentialing business can go on even in the absence of any subject matter connection between the school course and the job.
Consumer credit already expanded much more than expected last month as Americans took on debt to pay for things like job and school.
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These are the same men and women who allowed us to have the opportunities to go to school, get a job and buy a home.
"I can finish school, get a job, buy a house, " said Angel Silva, a 23-year-old Los Angeles college student brought from Mexico when he was a infant.
Hult International Business School is also keeping job prospects in mind when considering international applicants, and has begun to discourage students from outside the European Union from enrolling at its London campus.
Instead of telling people they need to go to school or get a job to acquire critical career skills, we can encourage them to take advantage of the learning opportunities that are all around them.
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All of us want our kids to grow up more likely to read and write and do math at grade level, to graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.
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Admissions and career services teams at University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business joined forces about a year and a half ago, as the school adapted to a job market that no longer favored its finance-focused talent.
The changes come on the heels of a 5, 000 word New York Times story published in January, which looks at law school grads who have piled on debt to go to school and face bleak job prospects.
In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own.
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Recently, Kristin Rubin got a job with the charter school the kids attend, and the family now has health insurance through her job.
Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem.
But he found his summer job with the school system a bit less exciting.
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