Jennings, a high school dropout known for his handsome face and urbane delivery on World News Tonight , was always self-conscious about his good looks and his lack of education, ... He spent his adult life soaking up knowledge.
Quotes about dropout (16 Quotes)
It is a mistake to treat the dropout problem as a fundamentally different kind of problem than other problems in our schools - it's a different symptom of the same disease.
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.
You think about the lack of engagement, the high dropout rate, the low college-going rate - something had to happen.
Their parents and grandparents did not face the same job market. It's estimated that by the year 2010 only eight percent of the jobs in this country will be able to be handled by a high school dropout. Approximately thirty years ago 30 percent of jobs could have been handled by a high school dropout.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
If you're a native high school dropout in this economy, you've got a slew of problems of which immigrant competition is but one, and a lesser one at that.
Now, you don't have to have a high school diploma to go to community college. Kids can go to tech schools. They might be called a dropout when they're not.
This board has been looking for ways to address the significant dropout rate in this community.
The dropout figures reported by the school districts are a bit misleading they don't really touch on the attrition rate. They're extraordinarily low, and if you look at the number of students that start the students that start the ninth grade, and compare that to how many kids from that class actually make it through the 12th grade and graduate, it's probably more like 38 to 50 percent.
I didn't understand it. It is a very complicated issue and I didn't believe we should be rushing to vote in 45 minutes. I'm not a dropout ... or maybe I am. I didn't understand it.
I knew that after The College Dropout I had the world listening. So what I had to do was not just outdo The College Dropout and the accolades that received. My (goal) was to make an album with no fast-forward material, cause how often can you say I like every song on the album So its me up there, setting new goals for myself.
When all you had to do was punch a hole in the ground and strike oil, it was easy to have the highest high school dropout rate. But you can't drop out and invent a new microchip. Texas is changing, but the constant is hatred of government, and that's a mistake in the 21st century.
It's a very complex proposal and I really didn't understand it. I didn't think I was a dropout but maybe I am. I didn't understand it.
Earlier this week, Mike Bloomberg discovered there was a 'crisis of affordability' in New York. Today, he's discovered that there's a dropout crisis,
We need to address the root causes of poverty by creating more affordable housing, by streamlining the enrollment process to get more people health insurance and by stemming the dropout crisis and graduating more kids with the skills they need to succeed,