- Nov 07, 2020
High School Students Quotes
On classrooms, comparisons, and growing up.
These High School Students quotes range from concerns about smoking habits to comparisons of test scores across countries, plus a note about looking to a strong graduating class as an example. It's a mixed snapshot of how people talk about teenagers today.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.
- Delaware State
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know we can all remember the days of sitting in algebra class asking ourselves, 'why will I need algebra or chemistry in the future?' The answer was and still remains that advanced math and science classes help high school students develop their analytical and cognitive skills and better prepare them to compete in college and the workplace.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Washington, D.C, for the first time my senior year as part of Girls Nation, put on by the American Legion Auxiliary, which sends high school students to D.C. to form a pretend federal government. There was an energy about the city that made me feel like I just had to come back there.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been really humbled by other women who've reached out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and federal office, but elementary school students running for student council or high school students who are their class presidents.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.
- Foreign Languages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020