Sentence examples for half of the dropouts from inspiring English sources

These sectors account for more than half of the dropouts, even though they employ less than a third of workers, and they are also the most likely to be hard on the body, the IMF found.

Half of the dropouts are Americans.

This allows censoring half of the dropouts at the beginning of the interval and the other half at the end of the interval.

The increase in dropout with time from the start of the trial was described by a Hill function on the logit scale where the time to reach half of the maximum dropout was estimated to approximately 3 weeks.

According to Robert Balfanz, of Johns Hopkins University's Everyone Graduates Center, just 12percentt of the nation's 20,000 high schools account for half of the country's dropouts and almost three-quarters of its minority dropouts.

In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Obama said federal aid would be available for the districts that are home to the 2,000 schools that produce more than half of the nation's dropouts.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has vowed to press states to remake the 5,000 or so chronically failing schools that account for about half of the nation's dropouts and usually serve — or more to the point fail to serve — the poorest children.

Just 12percentt of America's high schools produce half of the nation's dropouts.

More than a million kids fail to graduate on time every year, and it's not surprising that the schools with almost half of all dropouts (so-called "dropout factories") are schools that serve low-income and minority students.

There are about 25,000 public high schools in America, but fewer than one-tenth of them -- about 2,000 -- produce half the dropouts, according to administration officials.

Half of the adults are high school dropouts.