Sentences with phrase «graduates than their traditional school»

The small high schools managed to achieve these gains at a lower cost per graduate than the traditional schools, partly because more students graduated on time and did not need a costly fifth year of education.

They continue to deliver a higher percentage of college - ready graduates than their traditional school counterparts, regardless of family income.

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Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

«We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

Graduates of career - themed high schools that emphasized the connection between school and getting a good job earned 11 percent more per year, on average, than graduates of traditional high schools eight years after graduating (Stern et alGraduates of career - themed high schools that emphasized the connection between school and getting a good job earned 11 percent more per year, on average, than graduates of traditional high schools eight years after graduating (Stern et algraduates of traditional high schools eight years after graduating (Stern et al., 2010).

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

Americans May Know More than You Think about Science Science, 8/9/16» «We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

Although the model was originally designed for older - than - traditional - age college and graduate students, Fann believes «there's nothing stopping» the principles of competency - based education and assessment from working in primary and secondary schools.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.

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.

Charter schools graduate high school students at higher rates than traditional district schools - 79 % versus 66 % for traditional schools.

So temper the enthusiasm for a much - discussed new study from Mathematica Policy Research that found that alumni of charter high schools in Florida and Chicago made nearly 13 percent more per year in their mid-20s than graduates of traditional public schools.

8.4 % more students graduating from SSCs are enrolling in post-secondary programs as compared to students graduating from traditional large high schools, and per pupil costs at SSCs are 14 - 16 % less than large consolidated schools.

They are also graduating students from high school and enrolling them in college at much higher rates than traditional urban public schools.

According to a 2017 report from the Texas Education Agency, just 62 percent of Texas charter school students graduated on time in 2016, compared to more than 90 percent of students from traditional school districts.

Invalid Displayed Gallery Students who attend Florida's charter high schools are more likely to graduate, go to college, stay in college and earn more than students who attend traditional public high schools.

In English, graduates of the program, the New York City Leadership Academy, helped increase test scores at elementary and middle schools at a faster pace than new principals with more traditional résumés, the study showed.

Children who attend charter schools are more likely to graduate from high school than their traditional school peers.

These findings turn out to be as good or better to what we've seen in urban districts, where Linked Learning students are earning more credits and graduating at higher rates than peers in traditional high school programs.

In a previous study (Booker et al., 2011), we found that students attending charter high schools were 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to enroll in college than a comparison set of students attending traditional public high schools.

Such programs can take many forms, including specialized charter schools; «blended learning» schools in which students take accelerated online courses that supplement traditional, teacher - based instruction; curricular plans that allow students to graduate in fewer than 13 years; and «early college» high schools and «dual enrollment» programs in which they can simultaneously take high - school and college courses.

College graduates are far more likely than those with high school diplomas or less to read books on tablets (25 % vs. 7 %), e-book readers (15 % vs. 3 %) or traditional computers (15 % vs. 6 %).

Arguably, graduates of DNS would be even more qualified to work in document review jobs than graduates of traditional law school programs because the focus of their studies would be specifically on serving in that role.