Sentences with phrase «attend large high schools»

Students recognized by NHRP are more likely to live in cities and attend large high schools with significantly more low - income and Hispanic students, compared to white students with similarly strong PSAT / NMSQT scores.

They paid the Parthenon Group to conduct a study that revealed a cause of increased dropout rates was kids attending large high schools, and they concluded that if those large schools were broken into smaller schools then dropout rates would decrease.

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After attending the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego and Dallas Theological Seminary, he served as youth minister at a large Baptist church in San Diego and taught science at the affiliated Christian high school.

Titled «Prevalence of Sport Specialization in High School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schHigh School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sSchool Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schhigh school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sschool athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sschool were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schoolschool.

I was valedictorian of a large public high school in Florida, attended a top liberal arts college — Swarthmore — and majored in physics.

Overall, I find that winning the lottery to attend a first - choice school has a large impact on crime for high - risk youth.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.

Early - 20th - century advocates of large and consolidated schools, such as James Conant and Ellwood Cubberley, never dreamed that someday three out of five high - school students would attend schools comprising more than 1,000 students, with some schools having over 4,000 students.

The gains are large when compared to other possible policy interventions, such as the effects of attending a school with higher average achievement levels or enrolling in a charter school.

Nor do the researchers find evidence that students who attend middle schools make larger achievement gains than their K - 8 peers in grades 9 and 10, by which time most Florida students have entered high school.

As compared to white students with similarly strong PSAT / NMSQT scores, these approximately 5,000 Hispanic students are more likely to attend large, urban high schools with significantly more low - income, minority students.

Students from high schools with the highest concentrations of Hispanic students and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitive.»

Browne attended a reservation school through grade eight and then attended a large public high school.

The PZ Reach Scholarship aims to support educators working in underserved settings — for example, Title I public schools, areas with high rates of identity - based violence, or communities with large numbers of families impacted by immigration and / or displacement — to attend Project Zero Classroom.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

It's harder for kids in poverty and in single - parent homes, especially those attending large, impersonal middle and high schools where students change subjects, teachers and work groups every 50 - 90 minutes in response to a bell (the proverbial «factory model»).

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

A new MDRC study finds that students attending small high schools (with fewer than 100 students per grade) were more likely to graduate than students who attended larger schools.

In the country at large, how many lower - income and higher - income students attend low -, mid -, and high - poverty schools?

The trend of increasing racial and economic segregation is a nationwide trend — not just in Alabama and other Southern states.55 The South, however, was the only region in the country to see a net increase in private school enrollment between 1960 and 2000, and where private school enrollment is higher, support for spending in public schools tends to be lower.56 A growing body of rigorous research shows that money absolutely matters for public schools, especially for the students from low - income families who attend them.57 What's more, private schools in the South tend to have the largest overrepresentation of white students.58 In fact, research has shown that the strongest predictor of white private school enrollment is the proportion of black students in the local public schools.59

On average, respondents estimated that a little more than half — or 52 percent — of all low - income students attend high - poverty schools.67 This estimate is slightly larger than the Urban Institute figure showing that 40 percent of all low - income students attend a high - poverty school.68

In this publication — a joint effort of WKCD, the Bronx New Century High Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high schoHigh Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high sSchools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high sschools and breaking down large high schohigh schoolsschools.

In Mississippi, where more than 56 percent of students attend rural schools, Title I funding could be cut by $ 7 million, with the largest cuts taking place in five high - poverty Mississippi Delta districts.

Our financial comparisons are somewhat broader in scope — involving the cost per high school pupil attending one of the largest public school districts in the nation and those attending a large charter school system.

North Carolina researchers analyzing another large data set found similar results in 2007.27 More recently, in a study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers and university economists found that low - income black male students in North Carolina who have just one black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider attending college.

These two higher - need categories of special education students by and large attend district schools.

Furthermore, the K - 12 system itself is partially to blame; there are large racial gaps in high school graduation rates, which means that fewer people of color attend college relative to their white peers.

The largest impact was on high - school completion rates: While the girls in the program had graduation rates identical to girls who did not participate, 74 % of the boys who attended a Child - Parent Center had graduated by age 24, compared with 57 % of non-participating boys.

In his report, Abrahams showed that over the past year, a large number of these students were withdrawing from local schools because they don't have magnet high schools to attend.

We attend the largest comprehensive high school in Providence, located in the shadow of the city's only exam school.

Also knowing that students often attend a higher education institution in another state from their K - 12 schooling, having common learning targets could benefit colleges and universities from having to spend large amounts of money on remediation programs.

For example, interventions that take place over the summer should be one small component of a larger support framework for high school students as they transition from high school to college; developmental math reforms should also attend to students» non-academic needs; and effective math pedagogy should be integrated into all interventions intended to improve students» college math readiness.

Those attending will remember that the 2017 conference ended on a high note with a call to action from CLOC co-founder Mary O'Carroll of Google, promising that the mission going forward included a commitment to support both CLOC's members in legal departments who are exploring and driving the hard work of change, as well as the larger professional ecosphere of law firms, legal service providers and law schools looking for ways be more valuable to their corporate clients who are demanding improved performance, accountability, and value from their extended CLOC family.

No significant differences in high schools attended were found between the 2 groups, again suggesting that Seattle's mandatory busing program overcame the separation of students from different neighborhoods and elementary schools sometimes found in large urban school districts.

The relative difference is even larger when we look at the percentage of daily smokers among adolescents attending regular high - school education (5.2 %) compared with adolescents attending vocational training (28.6 % daily smokers).3

In communities with a number of distressed families, high - risk children may attend schools with a large number of other high - risk children, which creates a difficult learning climate and elicits further conduct problems.

As research across neuroscience, developmental psychology, and economics demonstrates, early social - emotional, physical, and cognitive skills beget later skill acquisition, setting the groundwork for success in school and the workplace.15 However, an analysis of nationally representative data shows that 65 percent of child care centers do not serve children age 1 or younger and that 44 percent do not serve children under age 3 at all.16 Consequently, child care centers only have the capacity to serve 10 percent of all children under age 1 and 25 percent of all children under age 3.17 High - quality child care during this critical period can support children's physical, cognitive, and social - emotional development.18 Attending a high - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and developmenHigh - quality child care during this critical period can support children's physical, cognitive, and social - emotional development.18 Attending a high - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and developmenhigh - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and development.19

These benefits, which accrue to both individuals and the public at large, are mostly due to improved long - term outcomes among children who participate in high - quality early learning programs: they are more likely to be high school graduates, attend postsecondary education, and own assets (such as a home)-- and they are less likely to be caught up in the cycle of mass incarceration.