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This brief keeps pace with the release of graduation rate data by the National Center for Education Statistics and lays a foundation for the more comprehensive annual Building a Grad Nation report that will be published in spring 2016.

This brief keeps pace with the release of graduation rate data by the National Center for Education Statistics and lays a foundation for the more comprehensive annual Building a Grad Nation report that will be published in spring 2016.

Not exact matches

The high school graduation rate in New York State barely budged last year, inching up just half a percentage point, according to data released by the state Education Department.

Capital Region schools, on average, saw their graduation rates increase nearly 1 percentage point to 85.4 percent last year, according to data released Friday by the State Education Department.

High school graduation rates crept up nearly two percent last year, according to data released by the state Education Department on Monday.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

Related reading: • Data: U.S. Graduation Rates by State and Student Demographics • What's Behind the Record Rises in U.S. Graduation Rates?

This map includes state - by - state graduation rate data, as well as state graduation rates for historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups.

While the federal government does not collect data on the graduation rates of students who receive Pell grants, an investigation by the Hechinger Institute suggests that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to students who never earn degrees.

[5] Using a common definition they could apply for very long time periods, they found that the high school graduation rate peaked in the early seventies and had not increased as of 2004, when the period covered by their data ended.

The link between dropout rates and crime is also well documented, and the report's data indicates that high school graduation reduces violent crime by 20 percent.

Jay Greene's work on graduation rates prompted a commitment by the governors to report these data in a consistent fashion.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

By 2000, the high school graduation rate in the United States ranked 13th among the 19 OECD countries for which comparable data are available.

Recent data compiled by the program administrator shows a 2015 - 2016 graduation rate of 98 percent.

Preliminary data released on Monday by the Department of Education show that high school graduation rates rose in a majority of states and gaps in graduation rates between white and minority students narrowed in most states.

Preliminary data suggests that continued mindfulness practice does have a positive effect on student achievement as evidenced by increased graduation rates and a decrease in the D / F rate.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

The delays have been many, largely blamed by the administration on new data being collected on graduation rates.

While timely data can help educators target those in need, a look at graduation rates by National Public Radio (NPR) has revealed another side to the issue of tracking potential dropouts.

In comparing the rate to other high schools, like nearby Wayne Valley, which posted a 93 percent graduation rate, the PVHS rate was relatively similar, according to data provided by the NJDOE.

All that adds up to a terrible graduation rate and other bad data; bad enough that this spring, BCHS got designated a «Restart» school by the State.

Its graduation rate rose from 64.3 percent in 2007 to 78.8 percent in 2012, according to data provided by the district, and it narrowed the achievement gaps between the district's Hispanic students and Texas» white students by more than 50 percent on state tests in high school math and science.

Data provided by the New York State Department of Education and the Rochester School District Wednesday indicate that some discrepancies critics have pounced on were due to one agency reporting a four - year graduation rate as of June and the other reporting it as of August, as well as an increase in the passing bar for state tests.

New preliminary data released today by the U.S. Department of Education shows that states continue to increase high school graduation rates and narrow the gap for traditionally underserved students, including low - income students, minority students, students with disabilities and English learners.

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's graduation rate for public high school students increased this year to 84 percent, 1 percent over last year, according to data released Monday by the Utah State Office of Education.

Much like disaggregating test score data by race and income in the early 2000s revealed inequities in what were generally considered to be good school systems, breaking apart graduation rates by school district shows that even high - performing states have pockets of failure.

With school budgets already limited by a conservative - led state legislature that critics say chronically underfunds public education, the district turned to Diplomas Now, an education nonprofit whose aim is to increase graduation rates using a data - driven system of early intervention.

For the first time, the GradNation report analyzes data using new criteria established by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed by Congress in December to replace No Child Left Behind, to identify low - graduation - rate high school schools.

This report is the first to analyze 2014 graduation data using new criteria established by ESSA, which defines a low - graduation - rate high school as one that enrolls 100 or more students and has an Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) of 67 percentgraduation data using new criteria established by ESSA, which defines a low - graduation - rate high school as one that enrolls 100 or more students and has an Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) of 67 percentgraduation - rate high school as one that enrolls 100 or more students and has an Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) of 67 percent or berate high school as one that enrolls 100 or more students and has an Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) of 67 percentGraduation Rate (ACGR) of 67 percent or beRate (ACGR) of 67 percent or below.

SALT LAKE CITY — A total of 38,326 students graduated from Utah's public high schools in 2016 bringing the total high school graduation rate to 85 percent, an increase of 1 percentage point over 2015, according to data released today by the Utah State Board of Education (USBE).

Under a new federal formula, Utah's high school graduation rate is significantly lower than it has been as calculated by state officials in recent years, according to data released Tuesday.

Earlier this week, data released by the California Department of Education showed that 91.2 percent of San Diego Unified's class of 2016 graduated, setting an all - time high graduation rate.

Sixteen states report graduation rates at or above 85 percent, compared to just nine states that reached that benchmark in 2010 — 11, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Examples include the delivery of the initial training and follow - up webinars on the Working Systemically approach in Texas, professional development of a Georgia SEA initiative to assist low - performing schools raise student performance by building student thinking skills using Thinking Maps ®, design and delivery of professional development sessions focused on dropout prevention and increasing graduation rates in Alabama, and the delivery of professional development sessions and dissemination webinars for an Early Warning Data System in Texas that identifies at - risk students and connects them to appropriate intervention strategies.

This allows us to see if states are wrongfully removing students from their data to boost graduation rates by shrinking cohorts over time.

GradNation's goal is to «increase the on - time graduation rate to 90 % by the class of 2020 ″ and provides data and best practice opportunities to help states reach this goal.

Veteran educator Larry Ferlazzo pointed out on his blog recently that the Carnegie report titled «Opportunity by Design: New High School Models for Student Success,» includes data put together by McKinsey & Co. that shows how the Core — a collection of standards considered more rigorous than most states had before adopting them — would affect graduation and dropout rates.