Sentences with phrase «graduate than their peers»

The implication is that students who are able to transfer all or most of their community college credits are more likely to graduate than peers who started their postsecondary education at a four - year school.

The study, released by the U.S. Department of Education in 2010, found that voucher students were more likely to graduate than peers without vouchers, based on data collected from families.

It has long been understood that students with high rates of absenteeism are less likely to graduate than their peers, and are more likely to suffer academically.

Studies regularly show that students who are required to take remedial courses are often discouraged by the delay in their academic progress and less likely to graduate than their peers.

Not exact matches

«There is no stronger call to action than creating opportunities for people to share things and having peers recommend stuff to other peers,» says Bell, who herself graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 2010.

But in the following 12 years the wages of college graduates fell by more than those of their less educated peers.

The project not only broadened the world's horizons on water with more than 750 peer reviewed studies and 120 graduate theses, but provided hard data on the impact of industrial activities on the world's most critical resource.

On average, white male students graduate with about 33 % more debt than their white female peers.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Despite the weak labor market, graduates still have better chances of finding good jobs than do their peers without degrees.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

Students who participated in programs graduated from college at a rate 11 per cent higher than peers who did not.

A survey by Roach and Sauermann of more than 400 graduate students at three Research I universities shows that some of the aspiring researchers do strongly possess what Sauermann and other researchers call «a taste for science,» which they define as a desire to do basic research, to determine the direction of one's projects, to publish in peer - reviewed journals, and to participate actively in the scientific community.

Yet, research shows that students with disabilities graduate from high school at lower rates than their peers and may face particular challenges when moving into adult roles.

In fact, 2008 graduates both with and without STEM majors who entered the teacher workforce had higher average SAT scores than their peers who entered other occupations.

Perhaps most intriguingly, MDRC found that the young men who years earlier had graduated from a career academy were 33 percent more likely to be married, and living with their spouse, than their peers in a control group.

Neglected children are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to have poorer reading skills than their cared - for peers.

During the 1980s, the likelihood of graduating from college was 8 percentage points less among those who had lived in single - parent families than their peers with two - parent families.

Rural high school graduates are less likely to attend college than their urban and suburban peers.

And unlike black graduates, first - generation college graduates and Pell - recipient graduates are substantiallyless likely to attend graduate school than their peers.

A sophisticated evaluation by MDRC found that young men who had graduated from a career academy were 33 percent more likely to be married and living with their spouses than selected peers in a control group.

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

Young people who have these capacities are more likely than their peers to attend and graduate from college.

They were more likely to finish high school, attend and graduate from a four - year college, and have higher earnings than their peers going to schools that didn't face accountability pressure.

Research shows that children with access to Medicaid are more likely to graduate from high school and complete college than their peers who lack coverage.

This study finds that Early College students were significantly more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in — and graduate from — college than their peers who did not take part in the program.

Some 3,738 students won scholarships during the trial period, and the older students among them have graduated from high school at a higher rate than their peers who lost the lottery.

And once at college, blacks are less likely to graduate in six years than their white peers.

Students who graduate from high school live longer, healthier, and more productive lives than their peers who do not.

But students who graduate from high schools with certain characteristics are much less likely to make it to college than their peers.

Graduates of low - income, high - minority schools are much less likely to enroll in college in the fall after they finish high school than are their peers in high - income, low - minority schools, regardless of the school locale.

«Retained students continue to perform markedly better than their promoted peers when tested at the same grade level and, assuming they are as likely to graduate high school, stand to benefit from an additional year of instruction.»

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

Rural high school graduates are also less likely than their urban and suburban peers to attend college.

That is, assuming that retained students are no less likely than their peers to graduate from high school — which Professor West does — is not necessarily a good idea, according to the research.

A 2013 study by MDRC found that students attending new small schools in New York graduated at a rate nearly 10 percentage points higher than did citywide peers with comparable backgrounds and learning needs.

A 2009 MIT - Harvard study, under the direction of Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that «achievement gains among Boston charter school students were significantly higher than those of their peers in either BPS or pilot schools, especially in math.»

African American students who attend charters in California are more academically proficient and more likely to graduate college - ready than their peers in traditional schools according to an abundance of publicly available data and academic studies.

College Enrollment and Success: Similar to their outstanding high school graduation rates, Brooke alumni enroll in and graduate from college more than double or triple the rate of their BPS peers.

Participants in school choice programs graduate from high school at higher rates than their public school peers.

It said that the District's poor and minority students are still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

Students of color even graduate from college at lower rates than their white peers.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

While there have been strides made in the number of first - generation students attending college, research has demonstrated that first - generation students graduate a lower rate (40 %) than their peers whose parents

To underscore this point, the Education Leader's Guide to Reading Growth reviews the well - known longitudinal study from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, which found that children who read proficiently in third grade were four times more likely to graduate high school by age 19 than peers who were not proficient in reading in third grade.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

Graduates go on to succeed in college at significantly higher rates than their peers: 99 % attend college and 90 % persist once they get there.

The CSF Baltimore scholarship recipients were graduating high school at a rate of 97 percent — a much higher rate than their peers in Baltimore public schools (between 40 and 60 percent), and a higher rate than students across Maryland (84 percent on average).

Students at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in decline.46

In addition, St. HOPE is proving that students from traditionally underserved backgrounds can perform as well as or better than their more affluent peers given proper support, more time and the high expectations all students will be prepared to attend and graduate from a four - year college.