We measure functional outcomes using the Global functioning: Role and Social scales [ 113], Columbia Impairment Scale (CIS), parent and youth report, and a list of developmental milestones (school exams, driver's licence, first summer job, …).
More than just a rite of passage for the youngsters involved, the milestone gives school administrators the first objective evaluation of whether their approach to education works.
We used to reserve big league ceremonies for big league milestones: high school graduation, college graduation, and of course the big Jewish milestone - becoming a Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
Sociologists traditionally define the "transition to adulthood" as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child.
The years between the ages of fifteen and twenty-six are punctuated by familiar milestones: high school, driver's license, college, first love, first job, first serious relationship, perhaps marriage, possibly a child.
"This next milestone of Schools for Africa brings his dream of education for all closer".
The book is expected to be another milestone in the school's veterans project, which involved all of the school's 560 students.
The New Directions are reaching a new end of high school milestone: senior prom.
There is a secret when it comes to this high school milestone that no one really talks about: All of the stress and drama of prom prep just isn't worth it.
In the Portland metro area, a large-scale partnership between the public schools and evangelical community, coordinated by the locally based Luis Palau ministry, recently passed the 250-school milestone.
Today's youths are delaying all the traditional milestones — from finishing school to getting a job to marrying — that previous generations achieved by their early or mid-20s.
