They have the ability to calculate the percentage of students in a specific high schools' graduating class who are in need of remedial coursework in college, who drop out of college, who earn successful grade point averages in their freshman year, and much more.
In addition to dress stores keeping registries of which dresses they have sold to students at specific high schools, the teenagers have created their own registries among themselves.
Greencorps Youth Program – Open to youth from specific high schools in high-crime communities, Greencorps provides them with training in horticulture and bicycle repair.
And Burke Mountain Academy (BMA) was the first sports-specific high school developed in North America, dating all the way back to 1970 when it opened for elite ski racers.
ACTC received a $150,000 gift from Ashland Inc. in December 2003 that created a permanently restricted endowment fund, the proceeds of which were distributed to ACTC and other KCTCS colleges to support math and science initiatives with a specific focus on high school and middle school students.
But Jennifer questions a common high school tradition: "On a specific day in May, students are encouraged to wear their college jerseys or t-shirts to proudly showcase what college they will be attending in the fall.
Harry is a specific American, a high-school basketball star, department-store underling, linotype operator and, finally, Toyota car salesman in the decaying industrial town of Brewer, Pennsylvania (Updike based it on Reading, Pa, which he knew as a boy).
Kindergarten teachers were typically bachelor's degree holders, whereas child care educators did not have any specific degree requirement beyond a high school diploma.
Lawrence F. Katz, a labor economist at Harvard, memorably called those who fruitfully combine the foundational skills of a high school education with specific vocational skills the "new artisans".
They join Harvard economist Lawrence F. Katz in predicting growing numbers of "new artisans," "those who combine the foundational skills of a high school education with specific vocational skills".
Lessons in concepts like algebra and geometry will be blended in the classes, instead of being separated out into specific courses during a student's high school years.
