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.
Florida's economy could see a combination of crime - related savings and additional revenue of about $ 507 million each year if the male high school
graduation rate increase by just 5 %.
After 30 years of stagnation, high
school graduation rates increased by 6 percentage points between 2000 and 2010, while the black - white and Hispanic - white graduation rate gap narrowed to 8.1 and 8.5 percentage points, respectively, according to new research from Education Next.
The basic idea, again, is that over the last 40 years we've not only
seen graduation rates increase substantially, we're also seeing significantly higher achievement (at least according to -LSB-...]
As many urban school districts across the country struggled to maintain or substantially increase graduation rates, the Wichita School District saw an unprecedented
graduation rate increase of 19.3 %.
The article, by Richard Murnane and Stephen Hoffman, explores how
graduation rates increased between 2000 and 2010 after 30 years of stagnation and examine some possible explanations for the trend.
Despite being ranked among the bottom ten performing schools in the state, New Haven Academy demonstrated a four
year graduation rate increase from 71.4 % in 2013 to 75.4 % in 2014, a 17.3 point gain since 2009, and the highest increase of any Alliance District School.
Governor Christie celebrated the «two years of
graduation rate increases in [Camden,] what was once the worst school district in New Jersey.»
Graduation rates increased most for the new small schools, but they also rose for the schools that pre-dated the small - schools tsunami and remained open.
This was the
largest graduation rate increase out of the state's «Big 5 City School Districts,» which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.
Between 2003 and 2011, for example, on -
time graduation rates increased from 51 percent to 69 percent, and college enrollment rates kept pace with the increasing number of high school graduates.
Prior to returning home to lead Tulsa Public Schools, Dr. Gist served as commissioner of education for the State of Rhode Island where student achievement reached historical highs, and
graduation rates increased significantly.
In contrast, education levels elsewhere in the developed world continue to rise, with college
graduation rates increasing roughly 5 percentage points among the other countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past 20 years alone.
Since the 2008 regulations were issued, the national high school
graduation rate increased from 74.7 percent to an all - time high of 84.1 percent in 2016.
Rochester's
graduation rate increased from 43.4 to 45.5 percent last year.
The graduation rate increased each year until 2011, when the rate dropped from 61 percent to 60.9 percent.
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.
The graduation rates increased for each of the so - called «Big 5» city school districts as well.
(Within three years,
graduation rates increased nine percentage points.)
Are your attendance and
graduation rates increasing, and your suspension rate decreasing?»
And
graduation rates increase.
From 1999 to 2005, high - school
graduation rates increased from 45.7 to 75.9 percent.
Despite the challenges facing America's high schools, the Research Center found that the pace of improvement has been slow, with the nation's
graduation rate increasing by less than a percentage point annually between...
Yet evidence from two independent sources now shows that, in fact,
the graduation rate increased substantially between 2000 and 2010.
Graduation rates increased by more than five points among special education students and English - language learners.
But last school year,
its graduation rate increased from 75 percent to 80 percent, surpassing the average state growth, which inched up from 72 percent to 73 percent.
Tanya Roane, principal at Cardozo Education Campus, where
the graduation rate increased by 11 points, to 52 percent, said school administrators also are working much harder to track down students who left.
Over the period of the evaluation, ACT and state test scores improved,
graduation rates increased, more students started to enroll in college, and we decreased the percent of students attending schools that perform near the bottom of the state.
Graduation rate increases were even more pronounced among most the state's demographic subgroups including:
They've also seen
their graduation rates increase.
The graduation rate increased from an average of 3 students per year to over 20 annually.