Nevertheless, the U.S. was often near the top of the class in global tests of academic achievement.
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Among groups leveraging online communities the most, education came in at the top of the class, comprising 11 percent of all social communities, according to the recent Ning survey.
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Barcelona remains near the top of the class.
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In other words, the Farmville developers of the world deserve their share of the credit for hoisting Facebook to the top of its class.
Meanwhile, university officials in California voted earlier this month to overhaul their current admissions system, which guarantees a student a place at a UC campus if he ranks in the top 4% of his high-school class or in the top 12.5% of the graduating class statewide.
Since 83% of the students accepted to the class of 2014 ranked in the top 10% of their class, finding qualified applicants was easy.
Ms. Malcorra had worked hard to move herself from the working class neighborhood where she grew up, graduating among the top of her class (and as the only woman) of electrical engineers at the University of Rosario, followed by a successful 15-year career at IBM.
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In the 2007--08 year 57% of the students enrolled were in the top quarter of their high school class, up from 54% the year before.
Mr Romney was the archetype of this new breed: he graduated in the top 5% of his class at the Harvard Business School.
His performance lifts the movie to the top of the rueful-retrospection class.
If parents are given the freedom to choose the schools that work best for their children and teachers are given the freedom to teach in ways they know work, our kids will vault to the top of the global class.
While the president promised to make his top priority the success of the middle class, Republicans declared the president's failure their No. 1 objective.
The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.
In 1997, the Texas legislature instituted the Top Ten Percent Law granting students in the top ten percent of their class automatic admission to any state university.
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With the support of family, friends and teachers, Sonia earned scholarships to Princeton, where she graduated at the top of her class, and Yale Law School, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, stepping onto the path that led her here today.
He said she had raised her grade to an A this semester, one of the top in the class, he said.
Mr. Weiner said she had raised her grade to an A this semester, one of the top in the class, he said.
Those at the top of the Klout class, whose high scores for Twittering, Facebooking, and social networking show a demonstrated ability to win over friends and influence people, get invited to exclusive parties and showered with promotions by companies hoping to benefit from a positive tweet about their product or company.
But not every young black American wants to be an athlete and presumably one of the main reasons for the falling numbers of top-class African-American boxers isn't that they're linemen or running backs in the NFL, or centres in the NBA. Rather, it's because they've taken Ali at his word.
Akaysha Joiner, the Aurora girl whose father attended CU in the 1980s, graduated at the top of her high-school class.
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Scot Alister McRae is on the verge of a home victory in the production class which would put him top of the title race.
He grew up in Jodhpur, in the desert state of Rajasthan, where both his parents were college professors, and was at the top of his class in high school.
The settlement, according to plaintiffs attorneys, is one of the top 25 securities class action settlements of all time.
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The Sandberg children attended public school, and Sheryl was always at the top of her class.
In 2004, Monsoor graduated from the basic SEAL training course as one of the top members of his class.
Democrats also typically seek a growth strategy that boosts the incomes of the middle class, not just of the top 1%.
Ten years ago--the young girl studied hard, learned English, and finished high school in the top of her class.
Republicans, on the other hand, have nominated somebody who believes that we should actually significantly increase the tax benefits that go to those at the top of the income scale and ask middle-class families to pay more to subsidize those tax benefits for the wealthy.
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