Sentences with phrase «also increase high school graduation rates»

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The city has also seen an increase in high school graduation rates, two successive rent freezes and more than 350,000 jobs in the last four years.

The city is also unveiling a $ 20 million initiative to fund college preparation and visits for middle and high school students, which will be in place by 2018, in order to increase graduation rates.

The mayor and the borough president also focused on the borough's falling crime and unemployment rates and its increasing high school graduation rate.

A trove of correlational studies have also demonstrated benefits for high school athletes, including higher grades, increased graduation and college completion rates, and a decrease in various antisocial behaviors.

Since improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased learning and could come at the expense of other academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT and ACT performance, and the percentage of students attending college.

The second report also found that the increase in graduation rates applied to every student subgroup examined, and that SSC graduation effects were sustained even after five years from the time sample members entered high school.

Increases in the nonmonetary cost of obtaining a high school diploma may also help explain the stagnation of the graduation rate in the three decades prior to 2000.

He has also worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he managed billion dollar non-profit investments targeting increased high school and college graduation rates.

Evers also laid out improvements since the 2009 - 10 school year, including an increasing graduation rate, fewer students dropping out of high schools, fewer students being suspended or expelled and a dropping truancy rate.

The average high school graduation rate also increased for schools that received School Improvement Grants school graduation rate also increased for schools that received School Improvement Grants School Improvement Grants (SIG).

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

We lead the nation, not only in research on effective practices in secondary schools that increase high school graduation rates, but also in bridging research to practice — our staff works directly with schools, districts, and states to coach, train, and implement what works.

As we've reported, the rising graduation rate reflects genuine progress, such as closing high schools termed «dropout factories,» but also questionable strategies by states and localities to increase their numbers.

That increase was based partly on rising test scores and partly on the four - year graduation rates at the school, which takes into account not only current students, but also both students who attended Cohen in the past and tranferred to other schools, and those who have transferred into Cohen partway through their high - school careers.

Forsyth Central High also increased its graduation rate this year to 87.7 percent (a 2.7 percent jump from the previous year and the highest in the school's history).

We have also pressed for passage of the TEACH Act, to better prepare, mentor, and reward teachers; the Graduation Promise Act, to increase high school graduation rates; and the Expanded Learning Time and School Redesign DemonstratioGraduation Promise Act, to increase high school graduation rates; and the Expanded Learning Time and School Redesign Demonstration Prschool graduation rates; and the Expanded Learning Time and School Redesign Demonstratiograduation rates; and the Expanded Learning Time and School Redesign Demonstration PrSchool Redesign Demonstration Program.

Eligible students also experienced an increase in their rate of on - time high school graduation, but falsification tests show that this result is not due to the program, but rather due to broader secular improvement in graduation rates for disadvantaged youth.