Sentences with phrase «american graduation rate increased»

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The program, Pathways Scholars, has increased the retention / graduation rate significantly for all students, but, most importantly, by almost 70 percent for Native American students.

He pointed to a five - year graduation rate that has increased from the high 50s to nearly 74 %, to the fact that there's been a doubling share of Newark's African - American students who exceed the New Jersey average on state assessments, and that Newark is now outperforming 80 % of 37 demographically similar systems in the state (after lagging behind all but a handful of them in 2010).

• Among African Americans, 26 % of those in the control group attended college full - time at some point within three years of expected high school graduation; among those in the treatment group, the voucher offer increased this rate by 7 percentage points, a 25 % increment.

Today, the graduation rate for African - Americans is 75 percent, still lower than our white counterparts, but an increase that shows our community rapidly closing that achievement gap.

What these voucher pushers never mention is that their privatization efforts have failed to do what they initially promised — increase academic performance and graduation rates for low - income, primarily African - American kids.

Supt. John Deasy and the board have together brought an unrelenting focus on poor children of color and there has been much progress as a result of his leadership including increased graduation and attendance rates, increases in the numbers of African American and Latino students taking Advanced Placement courses and exams, and reduced suspensions along with an overhaul of the school discipline policy.

topic: HELPING NATIVE AMERICAN GRADUATES: TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO INCREASE GRADUATION RATES AND LOWER DROPOUT RATES.

Increase graduation rates of Native American students by decreasing the dropout rate via participating in training, consultation, feedback and coaching activities.

As its signature effort, the GradNation campaign mobilizes Americans to increase the on - time high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020 and prepare young people for postsecondary enrollment and the 21st century workforce.

The graduation rate for African American males increased by 22 percent and the college enrollment rate is 36 percent higher than the control group.

This project proposes to increase high school graduation rates and college applications among Latino and African American youth who are at - risk for not completing high school.