But he lost interest, became a university drop-out and gave up his dreams of mathematical stardom.
School enrolment rates are therefore substantially lower in these areas, and drop-out rates are relatively high.
Cipriani went well wide with a long-range penalty attempt, but the resulting 22m drop-out proved a turning-point.
Girls are at a disadvantage in other ways, too, and have a higher drop-out rate than boys.
Mr Poe, on the other hand, is a secondary-school drop-out and political newcomer.
The drop-out rate in the district is more than twice the state average.
But among the children of Hispanic immigrants, the drop-out rate is much lower.
For teens, there are drop-out and adolescent-pregnancy prevention programs, as well as after-school and literacy programs, among many other services.
They lag behind both whites and blacks by almost every measure: higher drop-out rates, lower test scores, fewer college graduates.
In reality, even the apparently non-selective universities apply a form of selection by quietly putting up with very high drop-out rates.
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Such a drop-out rate has its roots in the earliest years of school, when under-performing students are pushed through the system.
Lower down the ladder institutions are experiencing drop-out rates of around 25%.
Italy were not going to lie down and forced a goal-line drop-out.
Colleges and universities are faced with very real concerns about drop-out rates which are higher in America than anywhere else in the developed world.
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The drop-out went all the way down the pitch and rolled agonisingly over the deadball line providing the ideal attacking platform for Wasps.
Despite the state of the economy since 2008, he said TA recruitment had seen little change in terms of take-up or drop-out rates.
As well as boosting demand, these schemes have helped to raise standards (because beneficiaries must reach minimum entry requirements) and cut drop-out rates.
The high-school drop-out rate, for example, would fall only from 17.3% to 16.1%, and the proportion of teenage mothers from 20% to 18%.
They like the folksy, guy-next-door manner of a high school drop-out who was a television reporter before entering politics as mayor of Calgary.
The measuring sticks for the rankings are nutrition, daily calories, drop-out rates and both short- and long-term weight loss scores from published clinical studies.
To them, Mr Shigeta will always be a spiv with a flaky past a high-school drop-out who was bound to come to a sticky end.
From being the son of (ethnic-German) immigrants from Hungary, a high-school drop-out, a taxi-driver and self-styled street-fighter, to lauded statesman: it all sounded rather romantic.
The visitors' first try came after a Bradford goal-line drop-out and continued pressure that saw Tommy Lee find Mariano who muscled through two defenders to score.
By contrast, client ratings of the alliance predicted premature drop-out and substance abuse and dependency symptoms post-treatment, and cannabis use at 3 and 6 month follow-up.
In particular, the participants in Kinkajou centres learned material twice as quickly as those in control centres, and displayed lower drop-out rates (66.5% lower among women).
Universities with a high drop-out rate tend to keep quiet about it or, if they do own up, to market it as a sign of academic rigour.
Unlike Mr Estrada, who served as a mayor, senator and vice-president before his presidential bid, Mr Poe, a high-school drop-out, had never run for office before.
In fact, the quality of education that students receive generally is poor and the drop-out rate under 12 years is up to 50 per cent in some areas.
Varndell opened the scoring when Jeremy Staunton's drop-out kick fell straight to him in space and he seared away from the covering tacklers to cross in the corner.
Fly-half Connor converted and landed a penalty and right on half-time wing Stephen John capitalised on a poor Williams drop-out to touchdown wide out with Connor adding the extras.
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