Sentences with phrase «about high dropout»

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MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses] have a high dropout rate and have serious questions about quality of instruction.

And on a more general note, much as I appreciate a blog that makes a counter-point to some of the insane poppycock spun by high school dropout midwives, getting on a high horse about these issues is not helpful to anyone.

How about: immature, ignorant, narrow - minded, name - calling, hate - filled, hypocritical, racist, high school dropout -LRB-?)

Yet, when he talks about his precious vegan diet, the fact of a similar (higher int he study, effectively equal) dropout rate is nowhere to be heard.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

Her analysis estimates that the lifetime difference in income between a high school graduate and a dropout is about $ 260,000.

And inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks's «We Real Cool,» a poem about high school dropouts, a student penned «We Still Drool,» about infants still dependent on their parents.

The high - school dropout rate hovered at about 50 percent, and just 9 percent of entering 9th graders ever graduated from college.

Apparently the town's high school faced serious problems, among the worst a dropout rate of about «10 percent a year.»

High - school dropouts pay about one - half the taxes of high - school graduates, and about one - third the taxes of those with more than a high - school diplHigh - school dropouts pay about one - half the taxes of high - school graduates, and about one - third the taxes of those with more than a high - school diplhigh - school graduates, and about one - third the taxes of those with more than a high - school diplhigh - school diploma.

Public health costs for the estimated 600,000 high - school dropouts in 2004 totaled about $ 58 billion.

Higher dropout rates among minority students, estimated by the National Education Association to be about 50 percent, may inflate test scores.

As for the high minority dropout rates — according to Texas figures, about 20 percent of minority students drop out, not 50 percent.

On April 25, an Askwith Forum will examine «Why High School Graduates become College Dropouts and What to Do about It,» with Melissa Roderick of the University of Chicago

For dropouts, the economic picture is even bleaker: According to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, over a working lifetime from ages 18 to 64, high school dropouts are estimated to earn about $ 400,000 less than those with diplomas.

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.

We know a great deal about the high school dropout problem.

Still, very high dropout rates raise questions about whether these students are ready for college.

Welcome to the problem a lot of people in the e-learning industry don't liketo talk about — high dropout rates for online courses.

In Reign of Error, Ravitch makes clear that, contrary to the statements being made about disastrous public school test scores and graduation rates, these figures are the highest they've ever been in history — and that dropout rates are at their lowest, this according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a no - stakes test for children of all races.

About 20 schools are expected to be designated next month as «priority schools» because of rock - bottom reading and math achievement plus other problems, such as weak student growth or high dropout rates.

The long - dormant concern about dropouts revived several years ago, however, when half a dozen independent researchers in universities and think tanks began publishing estimates of high school completion rates that contradicted the official rates.

A close look at national data dispels some myths about the reasons for the high dropout rates among Hispanic students.

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A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

Perhaps the most startling finding is that a significant chunk — about 3,000 — are high school dropouts applying for alternative schools.

While Duncan's did lower dropout rates in the city's high schools, when he left Chicago, the number of 11th graders who failed to meet the state standards was about 70 percent.

I could share story after story about how students will say how using REWARDS actually has changed their lives — that they were destined to be high school dropouts and are now in college.

As Dropout Nation has noted within the past year, those very review boards have raised significant concerns about many of the plans submitted by states such as New York as well as by the District of Columbia; D.C., one panel was particularly concerned that D.C.'s transition plan to embrace Common Core math and reading standards was not «realistic and of high quality», and lacked a «high - quality plan» for ensuring that English Language Learners and special ed students could get strong, comprehensive, college [preparatory curricula.

Because the study is restricted to high school graduates, it contains no information about dropouts who may differ from graduates.

This new offering is perfectly timed to guide the national debates about dropout prevention, out - of - school - time programs, high school reforms, and expanding learning opportunities for young people.

In order to alleviate some of the pressure on Texas schools with a high number of dropouts and to shadow the concerns about the accuracy of dropout data reported by the state education agency, the Texas legislature provided a special allocation of $ 85 million to finance special intervention programs for ninth grade students identified as at - risk of dropping out (Cortez, 1999).

The sad fact is that DC public schools have the lowest NAEP scores and the highest dropout rate in the country, whereas just about every student in the voucher program graduates from high school, almost all of them going on to college.

Worry about rising debt loads, soaring default rates, and high unemployment rates among recent college grads — combined with the high - profile success stories of a few dropouts - turned - billionaires — has generated a cottage industry of...

A contributing factor to the low dropout rate and high rate of participation was the involvement of civil society (such as key people within Somali associations and having different information meetings about the research project).

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31

When McLanahan and Sandefur entered parenting into the regressions (instead of income), they found that the poorer parenting skills and behaviors in single - parent families explained about half the gap in high school dropout rates, but only a fifth of the gap in teen birth rates (again controlling for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).

What do you think about the connection between comprehensive sex education, teenage pregnancy, and high - school dropout rates?