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  2. Carnegie Unit and Student Hour - Wikipedia

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    As part of their framework, the Carnegie Foundation also established that both high school preparation and college "work" would include a minimum of four years of study. On a parallel track, the Carnegie Foundation also underwrote the work of Morris L. Cooke's "Academic and Industrial Efficiency." Again, the motive here was to standardize ...

  3. Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The least significant difference was between those who had graduated from high school and those who had either some college or an associate degree. Here the difference was a mere $3,766 or 13.8%. The difference between those with a high school diploma ($30,000) and those who did not complete high school ($18,826) was $8,454 or 45%.

  4. High school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    High schools are depicted in many teenage-oriented films and television soap operas. Almost universally, these films fall into the comedy or social issues/drama genre categories. High school films from Hollywood rarely discuss the economic disparities between the social classes where the poor gravitate to the lower esteemed courses. [26]

  5. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are considerable numbers of students who transfer from one college to another, as well as adults older than high school age who apply to college. Millions of high school students apply to college each year, with approximately 4.23 million in the high school graduating age group in 2018–19 and an estimated 3.68 million high school ...

  6. The Subsidy Gap - The Huffington Post

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    The Virginia school even hosted ESPN’s flagship college football broadcast, GameDay, for an earlier contest. But those wins haven’t come cheap. More than half of the $30 million that James Madison spent on football from 2010 to 2014 came from student fees, according to annual filings with the NCAA.

  7. NY Regents put off proposal to let high school boys play ...

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    The New York board that sets education policy for the state was set to vote Tuesday on a controversial proposal to allow high school boys to compete in girls-only sports such as field hockey and ...

  8. Sex differences in education - Wikipedia

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    A study looking at children born in the 1980s in the United States until their adulthood found that boys with behavioural problems were less likely to complete high school and university than girls with the same behavioural problems. Boys had more exposure to negative experiences and peer pressure, and had higher rates of grade repetition.

  9. Donald Trump will be assuming the office of U.S. president on Jan. 20, 2025, and his return to the role could usher in a wide variety of economic changes. Trump has promised to lower taxes, reduce ...