Word: diploma
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Furthermore, Advanced Standing is an anomaly, as it allows work done outside and before Harvard to count toward one's diploma. I was awarded no credit, for example, for a college course I took at Princeton University during high school, but my A.P. scores were happily accepted. Another reason Advanced Standing is difficult to justify academically is that the strong financial incentive to graduate in three years outweighs for some students the intellectual incentive to remain for a fourth. Finally, not all high schools offer A.P. curricula, which means that the advantages offered by Advanced Standing--saving one year...
When Ricky found out his girlfriend was pregnant, he wanted to help support her but had no income and no diploma, so he started selling drugs...
...once Oriol received her HMS diploma, her sincere desire to help neighborhoods did not dissolve. Though the response of many newly-annointed doctors who are staggering under years of debt might be to give up their plans to work in poor neighborhoods for virtually no pay, Oriol still pursued her ideals. After years of working with residents in the neighborhoods, Oriol got rolling The Family Van, a mobile healthcare and education center bringing health and social services to Boston's urban communities...
...that getting married this June, after I graduate, seems an outlandish proposition to me, when many members of my family and the parents of many of my friends did just that--signed on for life shortly after receiving their diploma...
...state powwow on pre-K in September, Education Secretary Richard Riley promised increased federal collaboration. Educators, who have long fretted over children showing up for kindergarten ill prepared, are coming around in support. Unlike some private nursery schools, where teachers may have only a high school diploma, most public pre-kindergarten teachers undergo the same rigorous certification as elementary school teachers. "Today we're asking kids to meet higher standards in K through 12," says American Federation of Teachers president Sandra Feldman. "But if we don't prepare them earlier, then they're not going to meet them...