Sentences with phrase «as graduation rates»

The rankings combine international test results and data such as graduation rates between 2006 and 2010.

Please include data on retention percentages as well as graduation rates.

She required campuses to provide uniform data for comparisons of campuses, focused on outcomes such as graduation rates and expanded online offerings.

* UPDATED While LA Unified is firmly committed to online credit recovery classes as a means to the district's newly stated top goal — 100 percent graduation — Los Angeles charter school operators use these classes much more sparingly, as their graduation rates tend to be far ahead of the district's.

Long - term Value Percentage of absolute points earned out of a maximum of 100 based on student feedback on preparedness for the real world, satisfaction about employment opportunities, careers preparedness and accessibility of alumni, as well as graduation rates provided by schools.

Fresno, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Santa Ana, and San Francisco base 60 percent of their school accountability on students» academic status and growth, as well as graduation rates at the high school level and an indicator of «high school readiness» for middle schools.

Graduation rates have soared to 77.5 percent, increasing more than twice as fast as graduation rates nationally.

If that were true, as more of these graduates take the ACT and SAT, one would expect test scores to decline as graduation rates increase.

Sixty percent of a school's CORE score is based on academic performance, which includes performance on the Smarter Balanced tests as well as the graduation rate for high schools and high school readiness for middle schools.

In California, the new funding structure is intended to leverage education dollars for high - need students, who lag behind on performance measures such as graduation rates, standardized test scores, attendance, preparation for four - year colleges and participation in Advanced Placement classes.

While LA Unified is firmly committed to online credit recovery classes as a means to the district's newly stated top goal — 100 percent graduation — Los Angeles charter school operators use these classes much more sparingly, as their graduation rates tend to be far ahead of the district's.

However, educational outcomes in reading and math, as well as graduation rates, for students with disabilities continue to lag.

State ratings of schools would be based in part on students» academic improvement, in addition to current benchmarks, such as graduation rates and passing percentages on state tests.

Once good standards and decent tests are in place, states should release test scores (and other revealing information such as graduation rates) every which way, and they should rate their schools on an easy to understand scale, ideally from A to F, as Florida started doing under Governor Jeb Bush.

Moreover, prominent voices in teacher preparation continue to question whether clear - cut measures of student outcomes — such as graduation rates or test performance — are legitimate measures of educational performance.

Finally, an expert college counselor would advise a student to compare colleges on the basis of their curricula, instructional resources, other resources (housing, extracurricular opportunities), and outcomes (such as graduation rates).

Performance ratings would be based on outcomes (such as graduation rates and graduates» earnings) as well as on access (e.g., the proportion of the student body receiving Pell Grants) and affordability (tuition net of scholarship aid).

Within a state's accountability plan, «substantial weight» would have to be given to quantitative measures, such as graduation rates and performance on state tests, with much less weight allotted to subjective measures, such as school climate and educator engagement.

Early last year, I took the system to task for failing to track the educational outcomes (such as graduation rates) of students taking remedial courses.

She points out the state will use multiple measures in addition to test scores in determining next year's school ratings, such as graduation rates and «college and career readiness» measures.

To gain a better understanding of high school effectiveness, I would also want to look at other indicators peculiar to that level, such as graduation rates, SAT scores, higher education attendance and completion rates, and others.

Under New Public Management, assessment looks at outputs such as graduation rates and test scores.

Choosing the Right College with the College Scorecard Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) and Florida College Access Network (Florida CAN) present a webinar on the redesigned College Scorecard, a database which provides free, transparent and nationally comparable data on thousands of colleges and career schools in the United States on student outcomes such as graduation rates, student debt and post-college earnings.

The law mandates that the state board create performance standards, such as a graduation rate all schools should aim for, and measure all schools, districts and subgroups in all eight priorities.

In his election campaign, Walker proposed assigning letter grades to schools based on criteria such as graduation rates, passing rates, enrollment in advanced placement courses, test scores, and teacher and administrator evaluations.

• $ 1 billion for a new, Race to the Top competition aimed at providing competitive grants to states to help colleges improving student outcomes — such as graduation rates — without hiking tuition.

The report cards rate public schools for the first time on a scale of 0 to 100 based on state test scores and other factors, such as graduation rates, attendance and progress on closing achievement gaps.

Or be held «accountable» to metrics such as graduation rates or college enrollment?

But it's going to be part of a much broader assessment and accountability system that includes other measures, such as graduation rates, engagement levels of teachers and students, attendance issues, and reclassification for second language youngsters.

The Part B indicators, for example, include data such as graduation rates, dropout rates, suspensions and expulsions, and disproportionate representation.

Rather than using only standardized test scores to calculate a school's letter grade, the new letter grade ratings will also consider how scores for subgroups of students scores change over time, as well as graduation rates and Advanced Placement test scores.

While the state is developing a system that will incorporate some of the new data CORE now includes, such as graduation rates and English learner performance, it has not committed to a single numerical ranking system like CORE provides and may instead use more of a «dashboard» approach that would give a school several different scores.

The main takeaways are first, American schools are not failing; they are getting the best results in our history in areas such as graduation rates, pursuit of more rigorous curriculum, performance on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMMS), achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), parent satisfaction with their local schools, and student perceptions of their teachers compared with students around the world.

Under NCLB, schools that fail to make AYP for two years in a row in the same category, such as graduation rate, are deemed «Needs Improvement.»

There are nearly infinite alternative measures of schools such as graduation rates, suspension rates, teacher retention and turnover, teacher qualifications, class sizes, post graduation reports, student engagement, parental engagement, parent satisfaction surveys.

We made three noteworthy assumptions: test scores are the best available measure of educational achievement; educational achievement and attainment (including milestones such as graduation rates) are key drivers in hiring and are positively correlated with earnings; and labor markets will hire available workers with higher skills and education.

When states reduce funding for institutions with lower outcomes, such as graduation rates, without taking student race / ethnicity or income into account, this often means they are defunding institutions with more low - income students and students of color, making matters worse.

The new law encourages states to focus on students» opportunities to learn (the resources and quality of curriculum and teaching they receive), as well as a broader range of outcomes — such as graduation rates, completion of college - and - career - ready coursework, and richer measures of student learning that evaluate the critical thinking, collaboration, and problem - solving skills essential for success in today's society and workplaces.

In 2012, California limited the use of test scores in student and school evaluation and began tracking additional factors such as graduation rates.

Some states base a portion of funding on performance measures such as graduation rates.