Sentences with phrase «especially low graduation»

A dedicated, whole - of - community approach to supporting and partnering with schools that suffer from especially low graduation rates can make significant progress in this area.

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Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

Using state - of - the - art techniques, Dee finds that earlier standards - based reforms lowered graduation rates but improved students» employability, especially among black students.

States may use graduation rate data for accountability purposes (especially identification of low - graduation - rate high schools) that lag a year behind other accountability data to account for summer graduates.

KIPP encourages students, especially students of color, to consider colleges» four - and six - year graduation rates, as well as underrepresented, first - generation, and low - income student enrollment.

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.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Under NCLB, test scores and graduation rates improved, especially for children who had been low - achieving.