“By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.” PeopleNeedsFirstsSchoolJobsYoungReadyPercentHigh SchoolWorkersGraduatesGraduating High School Author:Bill Gates
“The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.” YearsAbilityCollegeTenDrawsPercentComplexesAverageComplicatedGraduatesLiteracyInferenceCollege GraduatesLengthy Author:Charles Colson
“I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the graduation I looked, and 92 percent of those who graduated at the University of Illinois were females. Where can a Black female, who are now the lawyers, the engineers; they are the ones graduating with top degrees; where will they find in a Black male a counterpart that is equal to them? We are filling the jails, we are filling the prisons.” FirstsNightBlackEqualDegreesPercentFemalePrisonMalesUniversityLawyerJailGraduatesEngineersGrandchildrenFillingCounterpartsIllinoisGreat GrandchildrenBlack Males Author:Louis Farrakhan
“For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.” InspirationalChildrenAgeTodayFunnyClassMiddleStudentsCollegePercentMiddle ClassWealthyGraduatesGraduationWorking ClassUpper Middle ClassStudents Today Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.” TryingJobsSufferingCareersEffectsPercentLaborCrisisFinancialDrivenManageInequalityRisingGraduatesBubblesPenaltiesWagesHousingLifelongExaggerationGreat DepressionFinancial CrisisLingeringSpawnHousing Bubble Author:Robert H. Frank
“In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveMeanDoeImportantCountryValuesFourPositionCollegePercentMajorityDon't BelieveValuableOur CountryGraduatesBurmaCollege Graduates Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."” WayFirstsSaidSchoolFilmUsedPayDegreesPercentMarkValuableGraduatesScholarshipFilm SchoolUnlearnTuitionNyu Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.” InspirationSchoolMotivationGirlThreeLevelsBoysFivePercentCanadaGraduatesElementary SchoolGraduate School Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!” WellsHalfClassPercentDoctorsMathematicsBottomMathFiftyGraduatesSurgeryNumbers And MathFunny MathematicsMath Class Book:Rules of Attraction Source: Rules of Attraction