Sentences with phrase «education rates between»

This marriage - gap has been explained by high incarceration rates among black men, reducing their income and marriage prospects for the future, and the growing divide in education rates between black women and black men.

Not exact matches

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

My 4th rate education taught me the distinction between stupidity and crass stupidity.

According to one article, it's the fastest growing form of education, increasing at an annual rate of between 7 % and 15 % per year.

But thinktank Civitas called on ministers to lower high teenage conception rates by focusing on education and the fundamental link between sex and reproduction.

The discussions between state Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. and teachers» union leaders are aimed at settling a lawsuit brought by the unions that threatened to block new job ratings for thousands of teachers which are due for release in June.

The last 40 years has seen higher education (HE) in the UK transformed from an elite system to a mass participation system: between 1962 and 2002, the participation rate rose from six per cent to around 43 per cent.

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

«We found that higher rates of poverty and lower levels of education helped explain breastfeeding gaps between black and white women, especially in determining whether mothers started breastfeeding in the first place,» said Sharon Landesman Ramey, a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and an author of the paper.

However, the study did not find a significant correlation between bystander CPR rates and education level, people below poverty status or population density.

The third JAMA Psychiatry article by lead author Michael Schoenbaum of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, examined the suicide and accident death rates in relation to basic socio - demographic and Army experience factors in the 975,057 Regular Army soldiers who served between Jan. 1, 2004 and Dec. 31, 2009, charting variations in the rates based on a variety of factors including sex, race, education level, and rank.

Statistics were also compiled concerning education in the israeli ethiopian community, showing that the rate of those eligible for high school matriculation certificates has risen by six percent in the last ten years — thus reducing the gap between ethiopian and native israeli students, whose matriculation eligibility rate stood at 55 % in 2008.

The article states that because of factors like the one - child policy harming social interaction between sexes, and that education is rated as more important for young Chinese, many find themselves without partners.

The Department for Education (DfE) analysis shows that between 2011 and 2015, the overall «wastage rate» had grown in every subject at secondary level.

Another potential difficulty is the difference in drop - out rates between higher education institutions and school - led training providers.

The Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York, Judge Wood said that because the passage rate for African American and Latino candidates was between 54 and 75 percent, city and state officials had to prove that the skills measured by the test were actually related to the job.

The Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York, Judge Wood said that because the passage rate for African - American and Latino candidates was between 54 and 75 percent, city and state officials had to prove that the skills measured by the test were actually related to the job.

While education hasn't been much of a national presence between 2004 and 2016, it was rated as the single most important issue in 2000.

But rather than seeing it as a painful (and politically volatile) trade - off between technology and teachers, we propose that digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first - rate teaching profession needs digital education.

There's a well - proven correlation between education and lower crime rates, reduced recidivism, and healthier communities, Stern reminds us.

Rather than seeing a painful (and politically volatile) trade - off between technology and teachers, we propose that digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first - rate teaching profession needs digital education.

A study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.

He cites big education issues with dropout rates and college completion, as well as a need to bridge the transition between K - 12 and higher education.

None of them show any relationship between the ratings of state standards according to the Fordham Institute and Education Week and each state's performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

The only negative relationship the authors found was between teachers» scores on the NTE physical education and special - education tests and supervisors» ratings of their performance.

«He has closed low - performing schools, reduced the dropout rate by 56 percent, ended a 26 - year court oversight in special education, and even reached an agreement between teachers and administrators tying compensation to...

Data about the credit - recovery industry are too incomplete, and change of all kinds too omnipresent in K — 12 education, to posit a definite link between the spread of online courses and increased graduation rates nationally.

Preliminary data released on Monday by the Department of Education show that high school graduation rates rose in a majority of states and gaps in graduation rates between white and minority students narrowed in most states.

Leaving School Empty Handed: A Report on Graduation and Dropout Rates for Students who Receive Special Education Services In New York City This report examines the graduation outcomes of the more than 170,000 children currently classified as having disabilities and in need of special education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996 - 1997 and 2003 -Education Services In New York City This report examines the graduation outcomes of the more than 170,000 children currently classified as having disabilities and in need of special education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996 - 1997 and 2003 -education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996 - 1997 and 2003 - 2004....

For example, in New York, education officials acknowledged the gap between its self - reported proficiency rates and NAEP proficiency was getting worse, adopting revised proficiency requirements more rigorous than NAEP.

In 2005, Governor Rick Perry passed an executive order that provided for the creation of a system of college - readiness indicators, including the reporting of education remediation rates among college students and the creation of an electronic academic records system to facilitate the transfer of high school transcripts between school districts and between districts and institutions of higher education.

Republicans also criticized Evers for the state's longstanding gap in academic achievement between black and white students, for his department's plan to comply with a new federal education accountability law and for a DPI software error that resulted in DPI unable to verify four - year graduation rates for 2016.

The overall argument of the report — that efforts to bring college preparatory education to public schools (and improve the rigor of curriculum in American public education) is contributing to the nation's dropout crisis — doesn't hold water when one knows that the nation's five - year graduation rate has barely budged between the Classes of 1991 and 2007 (81 percent and 78 percent, respectively).

To put this year's gains into context, the ISTEP + pass rate only increased about one percent between 2011 and 2012 — at the time, education policy analysts told StateImpact small gains were still a step in the right direction for Indiana students.

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.

States differ in the amount budgeted for education, often with little to no apparent correlation between number of dollars spent and graduation rates or scores on achievement tests.

Arne Duncan, the federal education secretary, has said that while there are places where students are tested too much, regular assessments are crucial to measuring the gap in achievement between white and minority students, and that if states did not do enough to ensure high participation rates, his agency may intervene.

The Department of Education calls the measure a «leading indicator,» a reasonable label given the documented relationship between absence rates measured at the teacher level and student achievement.

At that time, Colorado was at the national average in terms of education spending; we are now ranked somewhere between 40th and 49th depending on which method is used to measure the rate of funding.

APSCo's education code of conduct was developed in conjunction with NAHT and states that our members «shall not misrepresent pay rates, contract terms, assignment duration or other subjects relevant to the relationship between the member, the client and the candidate» and shall not «unfairly prevent a candidate from pursuing other opportunities, nor will they induce candidates to breach or improperly interfere with a contractual relationship with a client».

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

She has developed numerous partnerships between public schools, non-profits, higher education institutions, businesses, foundations, and industry in order to bolster student achievement and success that increased participation in after school programs, increased high school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, access to and achievement in advanced and rigorous coursework for historically underserved youth.

Fewer than half of the male Black and Hispanic students graduate, which, given the correlation between education and incarceration rates, means that where the road to life - chances divides, these young men are more likely to be propelled along the route that leads through prison rather than that leading through college.

Gaps between low - income and higher - income students in other measures of education success (such as college completion rates and civic engagement) have also been growing.

Districts that achieve the federally required participation rate of 95 percent will receive a letter of commendation from the state education commissioner, and those that have participation rates between 90 and 95 percent will receive a letter reminding them they must raise their participation rate to meet the federal requirement.

Between a rigorous, yearlong course and the excitement of the Judicially Speaking program, Colorado's civic education program may contribute to a youth voter participation rate20 and youth volunteerism rate which is slightly higher than the national average.21

The National Center for Education Statistics found that the Hispanic dropout rate decreased 18.6 % between 2000 and 2015.

The Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northwest study examined developmental (remedial) education placement rates and predictors of academic performance among first - time students who enrolled in the University of Alaska System between fall 2008 and spring 2012.

A 2016 report released by the Department of Education revealed that in all but two states, spending on prisons is growing much faster than spending on public education, having quadrupled between 1979 and 2013.100 The United States imprisons people at higher rates than any other country in the world and has a prison population of more than 2 million — the largest in the Education revealed that in all but two states, spending on prisons is growing much faster than spending on public education, having quadrupled between 1979 and 2013.100 The United States imprisons people at higher rates than any other country in the world and has a prison population of more than 2 million — the largest in the education, having quadrupled between 1979 and 2013.100 The United States imprisons people at higher rates than any other country in the world and has a prison population of more than 2 million — the largest in the world.101