Sentences with phrase «even higher dropout»

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Everything else is secondary — except, to pull off even such a modest birthday getaway, these two high school dropouts turned minimum - wage diner waitresses are gonna need a bit more cash than they have on hand, which means hustling any and every way they know how.

Its dropout rate fell to 2.1 percent while its attendance rate climbed to 95 percent — averages higher than the district and even the entire state.

While much attention has been given to the high rates of default among dropouts (24 percent), defaults are actually even higher among those who complete a postsecondary certificate (28 percent).

[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have high rates of default even on relatively small debts.

The motivation for Mexican education reform is driven by high grade retention, high dropout rates, and low test scores — even when compared with children from other Latin American countries.

Often subtly implemented to facilitate classroom management, avoid wholesale retentions, and reduce student dropout rates, social promotion has instead produced countless high school graduates unable to do college level work or even to hold entry - level jobs.

Alarmed by the high dropout and failure rates for college students who start out in remedial classes, Florida lawmakers voted last year to make such courses, and even the related placement tests, optional for anyone who... earned a [high school] diploma....

Even where state compulsory attendance laws extend to age 17 or 18, our sky - high dropout rate (see Figure 2) proves those statutes are unenforceable.

For dropouts, the economic picture is even bleaker: According to Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies, over a working lifetime from ages 18 to 64, high school dropouts are estimated to earn about $ 400,000 less than those with diplomas.

But even without a clear cause, the new analysis emphasizes the payoff to public funding of ECE, suggesting its potential to mitigate the high costs of special education and of dropouts and other poor educational outcomes.

Even though high school graduates earned higher wages than dropouts, additional requirements for a high school diploma counteracted what were substantial economic returns to the credential.

And we have people like Andre Agassi, who's a high school dropout, creating a charter chain, even though his own Andre Agassi School is one of the lowest - performing schools in the state of Nevada.

Over time, it took on an even bigger role for other groups of high school dropouts.

For example, states with high - stakes high - school graduation requirements must find effective ways to intervene in high schools with high failure and / or dropout rates, even if the percentage of students passing the test increases significantly each year.

Across the nation there are charter schools with the stated purpose of educating groups like pregnant teens, high school dropouts, delinquent youth, or even the broadly defined group of at - risk children.

According to the Roundtable report, students who complete GEDs frequently are not counted among dropouts in national data even though they did not receive high school diplomas.

The 1983 Nation at Risk report, which marked the start of the modern era of education reform, did not so much as mention the dropout problem even as it called for higher graduation requirements.

Research suggests that cutting the number of high school dropouts by even a quarter could contribute more than $ 12 million to the economy for each graduating class — and as much as $ 5 million more if those students go on to college.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

Even though initiatives such as SA2020 and combined works of San Antonio's school districts have generated good results in addressing the dropout rate, 15 Bexar County ZIP codes have more than 30 % of their 18 to 24 - year - old population who haven't attained a high school diploma.

Among dropouts, the rate of defaults is even higher.38

Judge Easterbrook of the 7th Circuit, who was otherwise being taken to task today for a podium comment, see f / k / a's post, Frank Easterbrook calls juries «twelve high school dropouts», was straight forward in his explication of the law of the workplace as he affirmed summary judgment for an employer, even though concluding:

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.

Single parenthood is not the only, nor even the most important, cause of the higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, or other negative outcomes we see; but it does contribute independently to these problems.

Children in sole custody settings are reported as having a notably higher likelihood — three times higher, in fact — of suffering from low self - esteem, insecurity, and rejection, being underachievers, including school dropout, substance abuse, depression, suicide, teen pregnancy, and even crime.