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…, college in particular. If you fail in college you hurt not only yourself, but you or your parents pocket book. Also college decides your future career and paycheck. Many people build a lot of stress from their place of work. The worst thing that can happen…

…knowledge or study skills to succeed in college. Much of high school is spent goofing around, not learning. By using college classes as a model, high schools could prepare students more effectively, and increase the overall learning rate in public schools…

…Every year more than one million high school seniors take the SAT and ACT in hopes of scoring high enough to get into the college of their choice. This is not always possible, even for the smartest students and the best test takers. The SAT…

…advice from, and many decisions a teenage parent must make. The statistics tell that the U.S. has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and births. "More than 4 out of ten young women become pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20-nearly one…

…that boot camps help overcrowding and prison costs, but they fail in reducing recidivism rates of a program. If a program is working, it helps ease the impact of cost by taxpayers by showing them that their money is being used for an effective facility. However…

…@nf.sympatico.ca It is with growing alarm, concern and compassion that we witness the continuing (and growing?) high rate of suicide in Canada’s Aboriginal community. This phenomenon has numerous far-reaching and negative implications and, up to the present, few…

…equipped skills (fruit pickers and laundry workers) that will need to be developed at someone else's expense. Approximately two thirds of illegal Mexican immigrants have not completed high school. Twenty two percent of high school dropouts were born in Mexico…

…. Consequences of underachievement can include unemployability which directly impacts economic growth. The average unemployment rate for high school dropouts in 2003 was more than 1.5 times higher than the unemployment rate for people with just high school diplomas. 3…

…. These are not considered properly in the UPE policy. Emphasis is on day schools - children with visual and physical disabilities are finding it increasingly difficult to travel for long distances to and from school on a daily basis. This increased the level of dropouts…

…The success of our schools performing its primary functions of teaching, educating, and socializing the young is predicted on regular school attendance. Truancy is rated among the major problems facing schools today (Garry, 1996). Schools in some larger…