Dual enrollment

Throughout high school, my teachers have always said, “We are preparing you for college,” and, “It won’t be this easy when you go to college.” We are conditioned to think of college as a completely independent learning environment where spending hours studying a textbook is the key to a good grade and later, success in a career. “No one in college will care whether you pass or fail. It’s all up to you,” said my freshman English teacher. I have had the unique opportunity to test this theory out…

directly to the federal government. The third is “owned and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs” and the fourth is chartered by Congress and governed by a board of trustees appointed by the president (O 'Laughlin, 2003). While TCUs “vary in enrollment, focus, location and student population” (Tribal College, 1999), the vast majority of Tribal Colleges are tribally controlled through the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) and a board of directors for each respective college.…

Geographic Areas: The population is mostly rural, concentrated in the rice growing areas of the central, northeastern, and northern regions. However, as Thailand continues to industrialize, its urban population - 31.1% of total population, principally in the Bangkok area is continually growing. iv. Migration rates and patterns: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 populations (2006 EST.) v. Ethnic groups: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% III. ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND ACTIVITY: 1 Thai Baht = 0.0273059164…

This is a case study about Dave (FYI: all names including the student, parents, teachers, and administrator(s) have been changed to protect anonymity and confidentiality for all parties). Dave is an 11th grade student enrolled in several honors courses. He has been labeled as a gifted/talented student by his school district. He is 16 years old and is African-American. Dave is and has been actively involved in extra-curricular activities most notably band. He appears normal physically with no…

There are also two- to three-year junior colleges and vocational colleges. Elementary schooling is compulsory, with an enrollment rate of 100 percent. Compulsory middle school education for three additional years was implemented in 2002. * Secondary education According to APEC website, there are two types of high schools in South Korea, general and vocational. Combining the two types of high schools together, the ratio of middle school graduates advancing to high school was 99.7 in…

significant entity that will have some fairly immediate impact on the prescription benefit management world." Bill Jenison, president of Pharmacy Gold, said the pharmaceutical company-PBM mergers will allow his independent PBM to "leverage more enrollment because of our clinical objectivity and independence." With existing PBMs prepared to handle increased market share, and new PBMs forming, the arguments that the manufacturer-PBM mergers increase the barriers to entry into the industry, or…

Weeks et al.’s (2008) state that “literature on rural veterans' health care needs warrants expansion and investment so that policy makers can make informed decisions in an environment of limited resources and competing interests.” In general, it’s understood that studies of access to care found that rural veterans have less access to care and were more vulnerable to travel barriers than their urban counterparts. Weeks et al.’s (2008) “conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature that…