Sentences with phrase «as lower graduation rates»

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Even as you have done away with the recreational - education and physical - education majors in which football players were often stashed, an enhanced academic support system has helped the team's graduation rate climb steadily, topping out in the respectable low 70's the last time the NCAA checked.

Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

A current study of 10 Linked Learning programs in California, for example, has so far found that students in these programs have dramatically lower dropout rates and slightly higher graduation rates, than the state as a whole, and are more likely to graduate with the courses required for admission to California's public universities.

Differences between low - and high - income children in reading and math achievement are much larger now than they were several decades ago, as are differences in college graduation rates.

Their colleges also have a higher proportion of low - income students, as well as a substantially lower six - year graduation rate.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

«One theory for low high - school completion rates is that failures in early courses, such as algebra, interfere with subsequent course work, placing students on a path that makes graduation quite difficult,» write authors Kalena Cortes, Joshua Goodman, and Takako Nomi in the article, «A Double Dose of Algebra,» which will appear in the Winter 2013 issue of Education Next and is now available online at www.educationnext.org.

As examples, he points to Rocketship, a group of schools in California serving low - income students that credits their high achievement in part to a daily two - hour computer lab; Carpe Diem, a top math performer in Arizona; and Robert A. Taft Information Technology High School, a Cincinnati school that converted to a technology focus and saw its graduation rate soar from 21 percent to more than 95 percent.

Moreover, graduation rates in the district are strikingly low, as is student performance on standardized tests.

As an example, some states show that in the past six years graduation rates for secondary students has dramatically risen from 68 % to 81 % [ii] due to Student Success programs, but the questions that rarely get asked are, do these numbers truly reflect a students» intellect, insight, understanding, values and citizenship, or is it that higher standards with lower expectations has equated to this phenomenon that claims that «Failure is not an option»?

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

Factors included are growth in enrollment, under - resourcing (such as per pupil staffing and spending in alternative schools versus regular schools), and low graduation rates.

States must identify schools as «priority schools» if they are among the 5 percent lowest performing schools in the state or if their graduation rates are below 60 percent.

One theory for these low high - school completion rates is that failures in early courses, such as algebra, interfere with subsequent course work, placing students on a path that makes graduation quite difficult.

The report illustrates how as a result of this movement, ELLs — who experience some of the lowest graduation rates in the city — are left with fewer and fewer options or are simply left behind....

The 75 percent threshold used in the 2017 rankings is still lower than the national average graduation rate as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics, which was 83 percent in 2014 - 2015.

Although the study identifies 16 states with low graduation rates, it singles out Florida, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and South Carolina as coming under the Statewide Crisis Category.

These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard - working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years.

The graduation rate for students with special needs varies greatly from as low as 1.2 percent to as high as... READ MORE

But, because the district countered those demographic shifts with a strong, data - driven plan, it also saw positive changes in that time, such as an improvement in its graduation rate, higher levels of parent involvement, and more low - income students enrolling in Advanced Placement courses.

(Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools, in basic terms, will be defined as the lowest 5 % of Title I schools or high schools with graduation rates less than 67 % not already in the lowest 5 %.)

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

They see low graduation rates among boys of color as a wakeup call for improving school climates for all students,» said Ama Nyamekye, the Executive Director of E4E - LA and former educator who worked in both public schools and prisons.

Under the regulation, schools and districts would receive an overall rating of one to five stars as determined by school performance (very low to very high) on multiple indicators — proficiency, a separate academic indicator for science and social studies, growth (elementary and middle school), achievement gap closure, transition readiness, graduation rate (high school) and opportunity and access.

Some schools thought of as high or low performers in the past based on test scores could have ratings that show the opposite because of other factors being used in the ratings, including test score growth over time, readiness for graduation and progress on closing achievement gaps between student groups.

KIPP encourages students, especially students of color, to consider colleges» four - and six - year graduation rates, as well as underrepresented, first - generation, and low - income student enrollment.

Many of these charters have terrible graduation rates — some as low as zero percent.

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The report, while focused mostly on Florida, suggests schools all over the country (again, possibly in TN) may be pushing low - performing students, many of whom are black, into «alternative schools,» as a way of preventing their low test scores and graduation rates from dragging down the average.

«Our goal is to turn around the 5,000 lowest - performing schools over the next five years, as part of our overall strategy for dramatically reducing the dropout rate, improving high school graduation rates and increasing the number of students who graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace,» said Arne Duncan, the administration's new secretary of education in August of that year.

The actual graduation rate could be even lower as there are several other requirements to graduate.

In places like Cambridge, Massachusetts, which uses choice to achieve economic diversity in its schools, graduation rates for low - income, Black and Hispanic students are as much as 20 percentage points higher than for comparable groups in nearby Boston.

Most have very low high school graduation rates compared with school systems outside of the cities — as much as a 50 percent difference.

At the same time, there are still citizens — especially dual - income households without children who tend to populate cities, as well as those concerned with other issues — for which education policy doesn't weigh in as a deciding factor largely because they see little concrete connection between low graduation rates and the levels of crime in their communities.

The bill, known as the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, would also make more money and regulatory flexibility available to for - profit colleges, many of which have been cited for high costs, low graduation rates and a history of taking advantage of low - income students and military veterans.

It should come as no surprise that urban districts tend to have lower graduation rates than suburban ones.

«As the number of low - grad - rate schools grows in some states, it is necessary to take a closer look at when and where these schools are part of the solution or a wrong turn on the path to 90 percent graduation rates for all students,» added Jennifer DePaoli, senior education advisor at Civic Enterprises and the report's lead author.

ESSA defines a low - graduation - rate school as one that enrolls 100 or more students and has a graduation rate of 67 percent or below.

Still, the authors note the overall graduation rate is low, and there is significant variation within HBCUs as well.

Seven percent of these schools are classified as low - graduation - rate schools.

States would identify and support «priority» schools (the lowest performing 5 percent of Title I elementary schools and Title I secondary schools, as well as secondary schools with graduation rates under 60 percent) and «focus» schools (Title I schools with the greatest achievement gaps and secondary schools with the greatest graduation rate gaps).

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Their 61.3 % graduation rate is lower than the national as well as the state average.

Some reformers believe that in the short term, we might have to grudgingly accept lower graduation rates as we increase educational standards and implement true college and career readiness in the high schools.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Under a new federal formula, Utah's high school graduation rate is significantly lower than it has been as calculated by state officials in recent years, according to data released Tuesday.

And students won't be able to use the scholarships, known as Cal Grants, at colleges with low graduation rates.

In the spring of 2007, when administrators calculated graduation rates, they found that four out of 10 students who had started New Dorp as freshmen had dropped out, making it one of the 2,000 or so lowest - performing high schools in the nation.

One Colorado school run by K12, Inc. had a graduation rate as low as 10 percent in 2010, Tennessee may shut down a K12, Inc. - run school following poor academic results and the NCAA has indicated it won't accept classes for prospective student athletes from a number of K12, Inc. - run schools.