Sentences with phrase «average readiness rate»

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New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

-RRB- While LaGuardia reports a 97 % graduation rate and an 89 % college readiness rate (although only 84 % college enrollment, which makes sense as some kids are going to want to go professional straight away), other schools, like Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, have only a 79 % college readiness rate (which is still higher than NYC's average of 50 %).

The highest level of college and career readiness was seen among students using the program who averaged mastery of four or more subskills per week; 58 % of these students met proficiency benchmarks — almost double the rate of the typical students.

Of states that include these measures, college - and career - readiness indicators are, on average, 20 percent of high school ratings.15

On average, states include school quality or student success indicators as approximately 14 percent of elementary and middle school ratings and 26 percent of high school ratings.27 Prior to ESSA, these types of indicators similarly averaged around 20 percent of school classification systems.28 Notably, two plans — Washington, D.C.'s and North Dakota's — include measures of school quality or student success as more than 50 percent of high school ratings.29 The bulk of these measures are college - and career - readiness indicators, such as performance on the SAT, ACT, or ACT WorkKeys; participation or performance in advanced coursework; and earning industry - recognized credentials.

That means schools will receive an «A» rating only when their students are demonstrating «mastery» (i.e., level of college - and career - readiness) on state assessments, graduating greater than 90 percent of their students, and have an average ACT score at the college - ready benchmark (e.g., 21).

One of its criteria involves computing a college - readiness index as a weighted average of advanced placement / International Baccalaureate participation rates and AP / IB performance quality.