Sentence examples for dropouts by from inspiring English sources

That method grossly undercounts dropouts by ignoring all students who leave before the 12th grade.

And it increased the wages of female high school dropouts by a larger amount ($4.19 per week).

It decreased the wages of American male high school dropouts by a very small amount ($1.37 per week).

New Mexico, for example, was allowed to define its rate as the percentage of enrolled 12th graders who received a diploma, a method that grossly undercounted dropouts by ignoring all students who left school before 12th grade.

A spokesman for City Year, Ian Rees, said that in the last year the program had been working to prevent dropouts by focusing on what he called the ABCs: absenteeism, behavior and course performance.

HBX limits the risk of multiple dropouts by requiring its students to pay in full before classes start and by taking applications, rather than allowing anyone to sign up.

Born in Leningrad in 1940, a disaffected school dropout by his midteens, Brodsky fell afoul of the Soviet authorities almost as soon as he began putting his independent-minded poems to the page.

Figure 8 Transfer and dropout by end of 11 th grade class rank.

One of its own, a hoodie-clad dropout by the name of Mark Zuckerberg, is the reason the fund stands to perform so well.

The predictors of the timing of substance use dependency were gender, family conflict by age 5, involvement in the child welfare system, social maturity at age 9, adolescent school mobility, and school dropout by age 16.

As expected in our Hypothesis 1a we can conclude that a pre-tertiary vocational qualification seems to buffer the disadvantages of being a dropout by smoothening the transition from education to the labour market.