"Guess what I'm going to be wearing under my graduation gown".
Under her graduation gown, tattooed on her right shoulder, was Romans 5 3-4: "We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope".
This is exactly the kind of mindless commercialism our children need less of -- especially in young urban America where 55percentt unemployment, under 50percentt graduation rates, drugs and violence have them chained to uncertain futures already.
A study of public college students in Texas found "little evidence that remedial programs improve under-prepared students' graduation chances or their performance in the labor market soon after college".
Under the 1996 graduation policy, which will be phased in by 2004, all public high school students must pass exams in English, math, science, global studies and American history and government.
Lawrence J. Haas, the university's spokesman, would neither confirm nor deny that Yale planned to give Mr. Buckley a degree, citing the school's tradition of keeping the names of honorarians under seal until graduation day.
On page 8 it states that under the alternative graduation route "Students may take four Regents exams (ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) and a comparably rigorous assessment for the fifth required examination to graduate".
Zambia currently requires students in government-supported training institutions to work in the public sector workforce for a specified number of years after graduation under a bond.
These reductions correspond to 29% of the graduation gains for under-represented minorities and 48% of the graduation gains for whites.
