To be clear, we're not talking about a high-school dropout minding a cash register.
To be clear, we're not talking about a high school dropout minding a cash register.
He took questions from the crowd on topics ranging from the school dropout rate to immigration.
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We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation.
Consequently, black children also have a far higher high school dropout rate and a lower rate of college enrollment.
The former school dropout built a retail empire that made him into the richest person in China in 2006.
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Andrey Ternovskiy, an eighteen-year-old high-school dropout from Moscow, has a variety of explanations for why he created the Web site Chatroulette.com.
So this whole idea that everybody who is in rap is a high school dropout from the slums, that's not quite the reality.
We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation, and half of the students who begin college never finish.
The 32-year-old law school dropout runs one of the biggest sites on the Web for anyone seeking to pressure politicians, corporations or others with a public shame campaign.
High school dropout and native of the Midwest John Simplot (pictured above left) bought and sold hogs in his youth after moving to Idaho from Iowa at an early age.
In fact, during this recession, a high school dropout has been more than three times as likely to be out of work as someone with at least a college degree.
The high school dropout enlisted in the Army and was awarded the Bronze Star for valor in the Korean War after he helped rescue 40 men trapped behind Chinese lines.
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Starting from a much lower base, the high school dropout rate among whites also declined during that period (from 7% in 2000 to 5% in 2011), but did not fall by as much.
"In New York City, Italians once had a much higher high school dropout rate, " Camarota said, noting an Italian immigration flux in the United States that spanned the years of 1890 to 1920.
We know that if you've got a college education, you are going to make multiples of what you would make as a high school graduate, much less a high school dropout over the course of a lifetime.
He sees the root of the problem in the high-school dropout rate among dalits and tribals, but backs a voluntary system in which the government would offer tax or other incentives to firms that meet employment targets.
The crime itself was enough to grab headlines: Arias, a 32-year-old high school dropout, shot Travis Alexander in the forehead, stabbed him nearly 30 times and slit his throat from ear to ear, leaving the motivational speaker and businessman nearly decapitated.
The Philippines dropped all charges against Onel de Guzman , a 24-year-old computer school dropout suspected of releasing the "I Love You" virus that cost billions of dollars worth of damage when it deleted hard drives around the world in May.
But the focus of "Grand Ambition" is on the "owner class, " as exemplified by the taciturn Mr. Von Allmen, now 71, a high-school dropout who did some youthful bumming around before finding his calling in accountancy and eventually becoming a private-equity mogul.
Murdoch, a billionaire and high school dropout, is also the chairman of Dole Food dol (nyse: dol - news - people), which spun off CCS in 1992 to turn Lanai into a resort after its pineapple plantations there shut down.
At age 15, while making sandwiches at a Subway shop, she obsessively counted out olives as her high-school-dropout co-workers snoozed.
But the future of Indian Country rests on something more: the education we provide our children. (Applause.) We know that Native Americans face some of the lowest matriculation rates and highest high school and college dropout rates.
Most of the credit goes to my Dad, the seventh grade dropout who quit school to work at the sawmill.
If you're a dropout from high school it's 20 percent.
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On the other hand, students who are motivated to learn have higher achievement, show better understanding of the concepts they are taught, are more satisfied with school, and have lower dropout rates, according to a variety of studies reviewed by Edward Deci and colleagues.
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So I helped work with local churches in the region to -- and public school officials to get state funding for dropout prevention programs, and brought together African American and Latino leaders to help set up after-school programs -- because when we help keep kids off the street, when we give them a productive way to spend their time, then graduation rates go up.
It was a disgrace, she said, that black males in the Baltimore public school system had a 75 percent dropout rate.
Consider these facts: A minority student is four times more likely than a non-minority student to attend a high school with very low graduation rates (so-called "dropout factories") and three times less likely to attend a high school with very high graduation rates.
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