Sentences with phrase «choice increase high school graduation rates»

Research has consistently demonstrated vouchers and school choice increase high school graduation rates, college attendance rates, achievement test scores, parental satisfaction, school safety and discipline, tolerance of other cultures, racial integration, and civic engagement.

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Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

Research shows New York's small schools of choice have reduced dropout and increased graduation rates while encouraging more students to meet higher standards.

The evidence base is growing in other areas as well — from home visiting to preschool, from the early teaching of reading and math to the rising graduation rates of small high schools of choice, from programs that facilitate the transition from high school to higher education to college reforms that dramatically accelerate and increase degree attainment.