Sentences with phrase «graduation rate gaps»

Kansas has one of the nation's smallest graduation rate gaps between students with disabilities and students without disabilities.

Closing the graduation rate gaps amongst subgroups is a challenge for many schools.

They're also expected to adopt college - and career - ready standards; link teacher, principal, and student - achievement data; and identify persistent achievement and graduation rate gaps.

Closing achievement and graduation rate gaps requires comprehensive school reform that includes a focus on a positive school climate that meets and develops the academic, social, and emotional needs of every student.

«Yet significant graduation rate gaps remain among various student subgroups and progress must accelerate over the next five years if the 90 percent goal is to be met equitably.»

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

States would identify and support «priority» schools (the lowest performing 5 percent of Title I elementary schools and Title I secondary schools, as well as secondary schools with graduation rates under 60 percent) and «focus» schools (Title I schools with the greatest achievement gaps and secondary schools with the greatest graduation rate gaps).

As Anne Hyslop reported, the newly announced waiver guidelines now ask states for «a demonstration that a school may not receive the highest rating in the state's accountability system if there are significant achievement or graduation rate gaps in the school that are not closing.»

At the same time, we have a long way to go and need to work together to get there... the gap between income groups for College and Career Readiness is more than twice the graduation rate gap, showing that far too few of our low income students are prepared for college, career, and life after high school.

Not exact matches

When he officially took the helm as leader of the city school system he certainly inherited a number of challenges: poor graduation rates, gaps in special education services, burned bridges between his predecessor, Jean Claude Brizard, and the teachers union and the school board, among a host of others things.

The mayor noted the city had narrowed the gap in high school graduation rates between the races.

While its overall graduation rate increased 6 percentage points to 80 percent last year, it managed to close an achievement gap between white students and everyone else.

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

The opportunity gap between Hispanics and their more - advantaged peers is still too wide, and high - school graduation rates are still too low.

For graduation rates, 93 percent of all students must graduate for a district or school to earn an A grade, and for subgroup graduation rates to improve by half the gap between their current graduation rates and 100 percent by 2025 - 26.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

Academic achievement, closing achievement gaps, four - year adjusted cohort graduation rates, «speed to proficiency» of English - language learners

Academic achievement, academic growth, closing achievement gaps, four - and five - year adjusted cohort graduation rates, English - language proficiency

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The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

Judging by the currently available statistical evidence, eliminating the test score gap would sharply increase black college - graduation rates, making them nearly equal to white rates.

Five indicators of performance are essential for a school report card: achievement, academic growth, achievement gap closure, graduation rates, and postsecondary and career readiness.

The opportunity gap between Hispanics and their more - advantaged peers is still too wide, and high - school graduation rates are...

Career academies bridge the school - to - job gap, while attendance and graduation rates skyrocket.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

There are gaps in opportunity and success at all levels — from access to high - quality early childhood education; to segregation and insufficient supports and rigor in K — 12 classrooms; to uneven access, low graduation rates, and looming debt in higher education.

We've substantially narrowed the racial and ethnic achievement gap, our students are catching up to students in the rest of the state, and our graduation rate is the highest it has been in decades.

It has entirely closed the graduation - rate gap between white and minority students, even as the percentage of nonwhite students in the district has doubled to 84 percent and the percentage of students who receive free and reduced - price school meals has climbed over 30 percentage points to 74 percent.

iNACOL has five criteria that it recommends policymakers judge full - time virtual charter schools by: individual student growth, proficiency, graduation rates, college and career readiness, and closing the achievement gap.

The program seeks to address the many disparities in outcomes for black men, including large gaps with white men regarding high - school graduation rates, college enrollment and completion rates, lifetime earnings, longevity, and the likelihood of incarceration.

Despite a mediocre track record of school improvement, Ohio was a winner, partly for its «simple, yet bold, long - term aspirations,» including «a near - 100 % high school graduation rate from schools teaching at internationally competitive standards,» elimination of achievement gaps, and higher - ed completion rates «that are among the highest in the nation and world.»

The opportunity gap between Hispanics and their more - advantaged peers is still too wide, and high - school graduation rates are still too low,» writes Professor Nonie Lesaux.

Winners of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top jackpot committed to grand goals in using the federal grants to raise student achievement, as measured by higher test scores, narrowed achievement gaps, and increased graduation and college - going rates — all in four years.

Expert Offers Ideas on How to Improve U.S. Education Ventura County Star, December 10, 2011 «The decline in graduation rates in the United States comes not because the American education system has lost ground, but because the U.S. has stagnated, while other countries have surged ahead, according to Ronald F. Ferguson... a Harvard University professor and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative.»

YES Prep Public Schools, winner of the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, has an enviable academic track record: They've eliminated achievement gaps, achieved a 100 percent graduation rate with all students accepted into 4 - year colleges — plus they partner with local traditional public schools.

Federal funding must be attached to firm, ambitious, and unequivocal demands for higher achievement, improved high school graduation rates, and progress in closing both achievement and opportunity gaps.

The second group, Focus schools, consists of schools in which the gaps in achievement or graduation rates among student subgroups specified in the ESEA statute are greatest or the achievement or graduation rates among these subgroups are lowest.

Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and cognitive disabilities, and standardized test scores.

Some in Montgomery see promise in a newly appointed superintendent and more county funding this year, but there are also concerns about wide gaps in achievement, lagging graduation rates and language barriers.

They understand and actively work to eliminate gaps in school success between different groups of students, as measured by academic achievement, high school graduation rates, and preparation for college and other postsecondary pursuits.

Yet despite these encouraging trends, substantial graduation - rate gaps along lines of race, income, and gender persist.

At CCA, we're leveraging our Alliance and implementing strategies around the country to close achievement gaps, boost graduation rates and ensure every student has the opportunity to achieve their dreams.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

Today, the graduation rate for African - Americans is 75 percent, still lower than our white counterparts, but an increase that shows our community rapidly closing that achievement gap.

The Obama administration's $ 650 million Investing in Innovation Fund — designed to spur investments in innovative educational providers and practices — specified that applicants needed to «demonstrate their previous success in closing achievement gaps, improving student progress toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, or recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.»

With respect to subgroups, goals must account for the level of improvement necessary to make significant progress in closing statewide gaps in proficiency and graduation rates.

Federal funding must be fairly distributed and it must be attached to firm, ambitious, and unequivocal demands for improvements in achievement, high school graduation rates, and gap closing.

States set annual district and school targets for grade - level achievement, high school graduation, and closing achievement gaps, for all students, including accelerated progress for subgroups (each major racial and ethnic group, students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from low - income families), and rate schools and districts on how well they meet the targets.

The gap narrowed because the graduation rates of males, especially Hispanics, experienced greater increases.