The inability to find employment after
graduation at an income level that provides enough to pay off rising student loan debt, creates an overwhelming financial burden for many graduates.
Not exact matches
If the new Common Core assessments set the high school
graduation bar
at true college readiness — meaning students are on track to take credit bearing courses from day one — the country is likely to learn that scarcely one - third of all students, and many fewer low -
income students, are
at that
level now.
Attendance in a high quality Pre-K program is important for school readiness and is highly correlated with reading
at grade
level, high school
graduation, and even
income level.
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.
15 Marguerite Spencer, a Professor
at University of St. Thomas, finds children studying in integrated schools have «[a] higher
level of parental involvement, higher
graduation rates, complete more years of education, earn higher degrees and major in more varied disciplines, gain greater access to professional jobs and have higher
incomes 16.