Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left
Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis This report highlights the urgent need to address the impending crisis of minority groups not graduating from high school at troubling rates....
Not exact matches
Also, while
graduation rates have increased among certain groups, others are lagging
behind such as English Language Learners (ELL's), whose rates dropped
by 5 percent this year.
Related reading: • Data: U.S.
Graduation Rates
by State and Student Demographics • What's
Behind the Record Rises in U.S.
Graduation Rates?
Plans
by the Bush administration to set a uniform way for states to calculate and report their
graduation rates could make it harder for high schools to avoid accountability measures under the No Child Left
Behind Act.
The rationale
behind this push to increase AP participation is the observation that students who take AP courses and examinations are much more likely to enroll and be successful in college, as measured
by college GPA and
graduation rates.
There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S.
graduation rates reported
by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left
Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.
A decade ago, the No Child Left
Behind Act ushered in an era of federal educational accountability marked
by relentless focus on closing race - and income - based «achievement gaps» in test scores and
graduation rates.
What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like
graduation rates — codified
by the No Child Left
Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.
The
graduation rate is included in calculations
by the federal government to determine if a high school, district or the state clears the performance hurdle set under the No Child Left
Behind law, the sweeping education reform that imposes increasingly severe penalties for coming up short.
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Don't fall for the false compliment that you are so important — so important that you should be fired if your students» test scores are lagging
behind, so important that your school's
graduation rate is a moral and a civil rights issue, so important that you should be replaced
by an inexperienced liberal arts major on a two - year resume building junket.
In the age of accountability ushered in
by the No Child Left
Behind law in 2002 and continued under 2015's Every Student Succeeds Act, many school officials are using fraudulent methods to inflate
graduation rates.
For the first time, the GradNation report analyzes data using new criteria established
by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed
by Congress in December to replace No Child Left
Behind, to identify low -
graduation - rate high school schools.
Numbers Matter, an instructional plan developed
by Barbara Burke, was first implemented in a school with 100 % free lunch, an on - time
graduation rate under 70 %, 95 % of freshman students arriving
behind grade level, and state test scores in the bottom half of the fifth quintile.
K12 officials explain away those
graduation rates and testing scores
by saying that they take in students that are worse off academically than most, and were far
behind in their schoolwork
by the time they come to the online school.
Recent internal progress reports obtained
by LA School Report show only 54 percent of seniors are currently on track to meet their «A through G» course requirements for
graduation, but the reports also show the problem is spread throughout the district, as 55 of its 59 traditional high schools with more than 200 students show a projected
graduation rate
behind last year's districtwide rate of 74 percent.
Uncovering the Tripwires to Postsecondary School Success (PDF) This remarkable report
by 60 self - selected Kentucky middle and high school students and college undergraduates — all members of the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team — uncovers the unacknowledged barriers
behind the state's troubling postsecondary
graduation rates.
Experts at the GradNation campaign — led
by America's Promise Ailliance, Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Alliance for Excellent Education — provide this FAQ to help explain what's
behind the increase in high school
graduation rates.
The progress that has been made is that the
graduation rates
by state, district, and school are much better because there are common administrative definitions that require documentation of transfers, etc... No Child Left
Behind required states to use their student databases to set an on - time
graduation date for each student and to document transfers.
by Jack Jennings Apr 4, 2015 academic standards, accountability, Common State Standards, education research, federal education policy, federal funding,
graduation rate, NAEP, No Child Left
Behind, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school reform, teacher evaluations, teacher performance, teachers, testing
by Jack Jennings Jun 12, 2015 academic standards, accountability, education research, federal education policy, federal funding,
graduation rate, NAEP, No Child Left
Behind, school reform, testing
by Jack Jennings Feb 7, 2011 federal education policy, federal funding,
graduation rate, NAEP, No Child Left
Behind, teacher evaluations
While Latinx high school and college
graduation rates are increasing, Latinx students still fall
behind their white and Asian peers in high school
graduation rates —
by 10 percent and 12 percent, respectively15 — and in college completion rates —
by 26 percent and 48 percent, 16 respectively.
Under No Child Left
Behind (NCLB) and Race To The Top (RTTT), raising student achievement (as measured
by standardized assessments) and attainment (as gauged
by outcomes such as
graduation and postsecondary success) have become national priority.
As Tom Mighell, past Chair of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section said in his 2010 IgniteLaw speech before the 2011 ABA TECHSHOW, No Lawyer Left
Behind, most law schools do not provide practice management education, and this omission needs to be rectified
by employing practicing lawyers to teach these subjects, making them requirements for
graduation, and including a practical component.