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The article focuses on the recommendations of a 64-member Blue Ribbon Commission in New York, suggesting changes to high school graduation requirements, including increasing assessment options beyond Regents exams. Topics discussed include the potential end of Regents exams, the need for more inclusive learning environments, and plans to reduce the number of diploma types while offering additional options and endorsements.

The article focuses on Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs like the Bronx Design and Construction Academy, highlighting how they offer high school students practical education in skilled trades while also emphasizing advanced math and skills relevant to the Green Economy. It discusses the success of CTE schools in increasing graduation rates and the importance of offering alternative career pathways to college, especially in skilled trades.

The article focuses on a report of New York City Department of Education which reveals that Career and Technical Education (CTE) schools in New York City has 86 percent of graduation rate, and mentions that CTE students also learn advanced math and the skills that will power the Green Economy.

The article reports on the gathering of 11,000 students from New York City schools at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to celebrate their graduation on October 24, 2022, held by the nonprofit organization I WILL GRADUATE (IWG).

The article presents the wishes of the authors to the students who graduated recently and shared her views of the author on the special moment for the family and the student.

The article deals with the decision of New York State to ease up restrictions for Covid-19 protocol for graduations and classrooms. Topics discussed include rules and capacity limitations for indoor and outdoor events and ceremonies, the support of the New York State United Teachers organization for the move, and Covid-19-related hospitalizations across the state.

The article informs that graduation season in the U.S. was filled with Zoom graduates and social distance drive-by toasts due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It mentions that graduates usually recognize the sacrifices their family has made in order to make the special day of graduation possible. It mentions that a graduation from first grade can be seen as monumental for some as a graduation from high school and college.

The article presents information about O'Neil Swanson, founder of Swanson Funeral Home in Detroit, Michigan. It mentions that Swanson enrolled in the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science from which he graduated cum laude in 1956; and also founded the Swanson Foundation that provided scholarships and other assistance to the needy people.

The article focuses on teacher Sarah Jane Woodson Early who after graduating was hired at Wilberforce University in 1858 as the first Black woman college instructor and the first Black to teach at a historically Black college or university. It informs that she served as national superintendent of the Black Division of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It states that she was a guest speaker in 1893 at the World's Conference of Representative Black Women in Chicago, Illinois.

The author honors graduate students and their families and communities, and talks about attending graduation ceremonies at Fordham University in New York City.

The article offers information on African American science fiction writer Octavia Estelle Butler. Topics discussed include being inspired for writing stories after watching televised version of the film "Devil Girl from Mars," her graduation from John Muir High School in 1965, and Butler receiving John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant in 1995.

The article reports on the graduation of more than 100 formerly incarcerated and homeless men from the Doe Fund's Ready, Willing & Able program at Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan, New York on March 22, 2018.

The article focuses on the New York State Board of Regents' new regulations for students with disabilities to allow them to graduate without passing state exams.

The article offers information on the 2017 Youth Day Graduation Cookout Celebration hosted by Andy King, a member of the New York City Council, in partnership with the Bronx Youth Empowerment Program, in the city on June 24, 2017.

The article discusses St. Francis College's outdoor graduation ceremony held at Brooklyn Bridge Park, with downtown Manhattan as the backdrop and which was attended by thousands of students and their families. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith read her poem "Garden of Eden" during the speaking portion of the ceremony to encourage the young graduates. Many students from the fields of psychology, accounting and business management spoke during the program.

The article discusses graduation ceremony of the Newark Street Academy held at the Marion Bolden Student Center in New Jersey, the program created by Mayor Ras Baraka to disengage youth ages 16-24 who are out of school and unemployed, and youth referred to the Opportunity Youth Network, after it.

The article offers information on the Bachelor of Music diploma received by former Yankee center fielder Bernie Williams from the Manhattan School of Music at Riverside Church in New York on May 13, 2016.

The author discusses the importance for families, particularly young children, to see people and women of color in their robes that represent the degrees they have obtained and their elite universities in the U.S.

The article highlights the graduation of young New York City first-time mothers from the Nurse-Family Partnership program of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY). The program teaches young women how to build a healthy and bright future for her family, how to raise their first child and avoid poverty and family dysfunction. A VNSNY nurse teaches mothers on parental skills from pre-natal until the child is born or until the mother is ready to raise her own child on her own.

The article presents information on the 11th Commencement ceremony of the Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) in New York. The commencement address was delivered by Kenneth Merlin, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Charles Hayden Foundation. According to Principal Gregory M. Hodge, 2007 had the largest graduating class in the history of FDA, with 180 graduating and the total scholarships and grants awarded amounting to over 6.5 million dollars.

The article focuses on the decline in the graduation rate among Black students in New York City. Numerous studies reveal that the college graduation rate for Black students is extremely low in comparison to white students. The percentage of Black students graduating from college, within a six-year period, was only 38% in 1999, whereas white students' graduation rate was nearing 60%. When compared to Black men, the college graduation rate for Black women climbed steadily over the years. Black men are least likely to stay in and graduate from college, in comparison to other groups, nationwide. One of the reasons behind the decline is that Black men are not motivated to continue their educational career.

The article presents information on Crucible, a tough 54-hour exercise, all Marines recruits of the United States's Navy must go through before graduation. In the Crucible each year more than 15,000 basic-trained Marines are born. Without going through this process it is nearly impossible to know what it is like to be transformed into a Marine. Recruits, who are rudely awakened by their drill instructor at 3 a.m. become ready for the exercise. Nearly all the recruits, who are auto-piloted march their weary feet down a narrow path lined with trees on either side with their M-16s hanging limply in their hands.

The article focuses on the condition of African Americans in the United States. There is an alarming disparity in graduation rates between white students and minority students. According to a recent report conducted by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard and the Urban Institute, only 50 percent of Black students graduated in 2001. By contrast, 75 percent of white students obtained their high school diplomas that year. According to the author, young Black children try to be what society tells them they ought to be. If they are told they are victims, that victimhood is part of what it means to be Black, they will ingrain the idea into their self concept.

The article highlights the 2011 College Initiative graduation celebration which honors former incarcerated students at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in New York City.

The article presents the author's recognition to the blessed graduates of 2010.

The article acknowledges the graduation of all 107 members of the graduating class of the Urban Prep Academy in Chicago, Illinois.

The article offers information on the 10th anniversary graduation dinner sponsored by the Metro-Manhattan Links Inc. and Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. in 2009 in New York City. The dinner was held in celebration of the 2009 class from the Young Achievers Program of the Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital's Faculty Club. It cites that the goals of the program, which was established in 1999, is to confront the issues facing African American male adolescents in Harlem.

The article reports on the graduation of more than a dozen special new police officers who will be added to the police department in Newark, New Jersey. Mayor Cory Booker presided the graduation ceremonies. The first class of special police officers will be utilized in patrolling, protecting citizens and enforcing the law in public settings.

The article reports the celebration of the 12th commencement exercise of the Frederick Douglass Academy (FDA) at 2581 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, New York. FDA's greatest treasures are its 146 graduating seniors who proudly marched across the stage to receive their well-earned diplomas, scholarships and awards. Jay Rifenbary, a motivational speaker, address the students and share the secret of self-empowerment, purpose and success.

The article presents information on the reality television show "College Hill." It is mentioned that the program is addicting and entertaining. The show is about Black college experience. It is mentioned that the TV program discusses several aspects of college life, including father-daughter relationship issues, the state of the man and woman romantic relationship in today's society, and the pressure to graduate.

The article reports on the sponsorship of the Metro Manhattan Links, Inc. and Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. to the ninth annual graduation dinner of the Young Achievers Go To High School, Go To College program at Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York City. The program is about nurturing and grooming young and Hispanic-American men to do great things through continuing their college education.

The article reports on the 42nd graduation ceremony of Columbia University's Double Discovery Center, New York City that was organized on May 18, 2007. The day was marked with the graduation of 137 high-school students of low-income groups including Flosha Tejada, Nnenna Nwogu and Shanice Smith. On an average, 97% of Double Discovery Center high school students have graduated and enrolled in colleges in the past five years.

Focuses on issues related to the public school system in New York City. Lack of focus on increasing high school on-time graduation rate and providing children with the opportunities they need to get the diploma they so need for their future; Features of a good education system; Results of a recent Harvard study, which claims just 38 percent of New York City students graduate in four years.

The article focuses on issues related to Commencement in the U.S. The month of May 2005 had come to visit the world. Much of that world was already in blossom and bloom. Everywhere people young and old were graduating from colleges, universities, and schools of every sort. It was Commencement time. It was time to begin again. From the steps at the schoolhouse in Alabama to Marine Corps schools in Quantico, Virginia, there was an ending and then a Commencement. This Commencement comes at the end of a war in Iraq.