Sentences with phrase «graduated at higher percentages»

In 2015, Harmony Public Schools black, Latino and low - income students graduated at higher percentages than the state average.

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Unsurprisingly, they found a strong correlation between education and wealth: Wealthy cities tended to have at least one well - respected research university, along with a higher percentage of residents with bachelor's and graduate degrees.

As an example we can take the exit polls from the 2012 presidential race, we see that while Obama won in most of the educational categories (look at the NYTimes) he did win by significantly higher margins in the postgraduate part of the population (+13 percentage points), lost college graduates by 4 %, and won people with some college by 1 %.

He noted that at least 30 years ago, the United States had the highest percentage of college graduates of «any nation on earth,» at number one but that the country now ranks at 11.

Mathematics had the highest percentage of Ph.D. graduates working in academic positions — 61 % — while engineering had the lowest, at 26 %.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

An analysis by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly small.

Moreover, students offered vouchers graduated at a rate 12 percentage points higher than the control group, 82 percent to 70 percent respectively.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

Likewise, if a large percentage of graduates are persisting, especially at high - need schools, that is a sign of success.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.

As the percentage of students reading at grade level changes little between 8th and 12th grades, it means that more than 90 percent of Black students in these states are unlikely to graduate from high school college - and career - ready.

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.

To see how well schools in the United States do at producing high - achieving math students, we compared the percentage of U.S. students in the high - school graduating Class of 2009 with advanced skills in mathematics to percentages of similarly high achievers in other countries.

So the board this year unveiled a new measure that it described as «the best single measure of equity and excellence in AP»: the percentage of the student body or of a graduating class that earns a passing score of 3 or higher on at least one AP exam.

graduated from high school and both enrolled and persisted in four - year colleges at rates that were four to seven percentage points higher than a carefully matched set of students in Milwaukee Public Schools.

In Los Angeles, the percentage of high school graduates who completed all college preparatory coursework is 4 times as high at charter public schools as it is at traditional district schools.

According to a 2014 report (www.ccsa.org/collegereport), in LA, the percentage of high school graduates who completed all college preparatory coursework is 4 times as high at charter public schools as it is at traditional district schools.

While the rising percentage of high school graduates described by Murnane occurred at the peak of the testing and accountability movement, it is clear that high stakes accountability disproportionately affects those students in need of the most support.

Consider, for instance, the work of Patrick Wolf at the University of Arkansas, who has examined the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship and found that it led to improved reading achievement among participants while also increasing a student's chance of graduating high school by 21 percentage points.

The high school with the highest percentage of 9th graders on track to graduate is Ferris High School at 81.7 percent for all studehigh school with the highest percentage of 9th graders on track to graduate is Ferris High School at 81.7 percent for all studeHigh School at 81.7 percent for all students.

Among the 676 institutions analyzed, 22 percent had a black - white graduation gap of less than 5 percentage points, and at 8 percent of the colleges, black students graduated at the same rate (or higher) as white students.

In Oakland, the average percentage of high school graduates who completed all college preparatory coursework at charter public schools is 2 times as high as it is for traditional district schools.

Yes, we want to get better — we want more students reading at grade level, more learners with basic numeracy skills and a higher percentage of students graduating.

At Jefferson High in Daly City, 78 percent of Latino students graduate UC / CSU ready — the highest percentage among comprehensive high schoHigh in Daly City, 78 percent of Latino students graduate UC / CSU ready — the highest percentage among comprehensive high schohigh schools.

For example, Connecticut's «on track to graduate» indicator measures the percentage of ninth - graders earning at least five full - year credits.9 Massachusetts, on the other hand, measures the percentage of students who fail a ninth - grade course.10 Illinois uses a hybrid approach, counting students as on track if they earn at least five full - year course credits in ninth grade and no more than one semester F in a core course their first year of high school.11

Specifically, in 2012, white students graduated at a rate 26.5 percentage points higher than students of color.

Between 2002 and 2011, the percentage of high school seniors graduating after having taken at least one Advanced Placement exam increased by a two-fold; this includes a three-fold increase in the number of black high school seniors taking at least one A.P. exam, and a two-fold jump in Latino students taking A.P. exams.

At the high school level, the district saw a 1 - percentage point decrease in graduation rates in the 2015 - 2016 school year compared to the year before with 79 percent of MMSD students graduating from high school in four years.

Colorado is also tied for the 37th - highest percentage of graduates who have debt at 53 percent.

At 60 percent — down 1 percent from last year — the state ranks 18th for the highest percentage of graduates with college loan debt.

The percentage of graduates who had student loan debt remained the same from 2017 at 60 percent, which ranks it 18th - highest this year.

Illinois is barely in the most expensive half of states, ranking at 23rd for average student loan debt, but it places higher with the 14th - highest percentage of graduates who have debt.

Kansas falls right in the middle of the pack with the 25th - highest average student debt in the U.S.. Its 60 percent of graduates with debt places it at 18th - highest, but the percentage of graduates with debt declined 3 percentage points from the previous year.

The state cracked the top 10 for highest percentage of graduates with debt, though, at tenth - highest nationwide.

For example, I know of at least one school that is rumored to hire graduates to do research for low pay, and then goes on to claim that a higher percentage of its graduates is employed after graduation.

CLE presentations are good for all the reasons you list, especially at a public law school in a state like West Virginia where a high percentage of the lawyers are WVU Law graduates.

Percentage rates start at 26 % for new graduates, 27 % for experienced drivers, and go as high as 32 %.

In the case of black heritage graduates it was a numbers issue: as a percentage of those achieving high grades at A Level; 22 per cent of Chinese students, 10 per cent of white students and 9.9 per cent of Asian students achieved three As at A Level in 2015, while only 3.9 per cent of black heritage students attained the same.