Sentences with phrase «between low graduation»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The opportunity gap between Hispanics and their more - advantaged peers is still too wide, and high - school graduation rates are still too low.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

The opportunity gap between Hispanics and their more - advantaged peers is still too wide, and high - school graduation rates are still too low,» writes Professor Nonie Lesaux.

The graduation rate for Olympia's low - income population rose by 7 percentage points between the 2012 and 2016 school years, for instance.

While the difference in high school graduation rates between high - and low - income students shrunk, inequality...

Some 95 percent of Teacher U's 2010 graduates and 98 percent of its 2011 graduates met the 70 percent targets, he said, although the graduation rate over the two - year master's program is lower, between 70 percent and 80 percent because of attrition, Hostetter noted.

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.

Narrowing the gulf on test scores and graduation rates between low - income students — many of whom are in the state's urban areas — and their more affluent peers has been a daunting obstacle in Connecticut for years.

Comparing institutions where between 40 percent and 75 percent of freshmen come from low - income families, the average black graduation rate at the HBCUs is 38 percent versus 32 percent for non-HBCUs.

Hear this interview with Chalkboard's Dan Jamison on the connection between high absenteeism in schools and low graduation rates.

WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

The paper focuses on issues that have kept graduation rates for students of color between the upper 60s to low 70s percentage points, compared to rates for white students above 80 %.

Not only are graduation rates in Indiana strong, but the gap between low - income and non-low-income students is now the smallest in the nation.

At the same time, we have a long way to go and need to work together to get there... the gap between income groups for College and Career Readiness is more than twice the graduation rate gap, showing that far too few of our low income students are prepared for college, career, and life after high school.