Sentences with phrase «economic mobility rate»

[vi] Second, I examine the economic mobility rate of these students, which is the percentage of them that earn in the top 20 percent of the individual income distribution as young adults (a limited but important measure of mobility).

• Private colleges tend to have higher economic mobility rates for low - income students, but they also tend to be somewhat more selective.

• Private colleges serve a similar proportion of low - income students as public colleges, and low - income students have higher economic mobility rates at private colleges (although this may be due to their greater selectivity).

Table 1 shows that the relative economic mobility rates of low - income students vary widely across states.

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The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

Krissy Clark of Marketplace visits Dayton, Ohio, which has one of the worst rates of economic mobility in the U.S., to try to understand why so few poor children in Dayton make it out of poverty and to tell the stories of some who have made it out.

Table 1 reports key statistics on enrollment, low - income enrollment, low - income success (economic mobility), and percent in - state by state and sector (additional statistics, including net price, SAT / ACT scores, and admissions rates, are reported in the data appendix).

With 47 percent of its population connected to the military, Killeen Independent School District (KISD) in Texas has the unique challenge of educating students with a diversity of primary languages, a wide range of socio - economic levels and a high mobility rate.