Sentences with phrase «graduation rate went»

Chapin's graduation rate went from 82 percent to exceeding 96 percent, with proficiency rates continuing to climb, including a 16 - point spike in math proficiency among Black students.

He touted his record as the former superintendent of the Beloit school district, saying, «Our minority graduation rate went from levels below Milwaukee and Madison, to above 80 percent.»

The four - year high school graduation rate went up from 67 percent in 2010 to 71 percent in 2016.

«We recently learned that America's high school graduation rate went up to 83 percent, which is the highest on record,» President Barack Obama said in a speech Monday to cheering students and faculty at a D.C. high school.

Thirty two percent reduction in murders in our state, graduation rates going up, school achievement going up, investments in schools going up, things that you could not have done if you had a slash and burn mentality about state government,» said Malloy, defending his record.

You don't want to see the graduation rate go down, or test scores fall, or teen pregnancy rates climb.

Graduation rates went to 78 % last year from 52 % before Katrina — surpassing Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Oakland, Calif., cities also struggling to boost achievement among lower - income students.

Educators report that grades and graduation rates go up, bullying goes down, and students are better prepared for college, careers, and citizenship when they are taught Overcoming Obstacles.

Graduation rates went up; chronic absenteeism went down.

Test scores went up, graduation rates went up, and the achievement gap began to close.»

Test scores and graduation rates went up, but thousands of mostly black teachers were dismissed and thousands of students were suspended or expelled due to zero - tolerance discipline policies.

Not exact matches

There was a correlation between children who went to preschool and graduation rates, reduced teen pregnancy, and reduced crime.

Lawrence test scores and graduation rates have gone up modestly.

«We're 38th in the graduation rate... It's not just money that determines if we're going to have an effective school system.»

Graduation rates are going up.

In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best - educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates.

«Here we are, poverty's going up, the graduation rate is stagnant or going down, businesses are fleeing, the state of New York in the past six years lost 857,000.»

Catholic schools, in particular, have long been flagged by social scientists for their strong graduation and college - going rates.

Sixty - five percent of students in Montana now go to a school with a Graduation Matters initiative, and we are already seeing the results of this statewide focus on graduation — our dropout ratesGraduation Matters initiative, and we are already seeing the results of this statewide focus on graduation — our dropout ratesgraduation — our dropout rates are down.

Catholic schools in particular have long been singled out by social scientists for their strong results in terms of graduation and college - going rates.

Catholic schools in particular have long been singled out for their strong results in terms of graduation and college - going rates.

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.

The regulations go significantly further by demanding that research demonstrate a link between the indicators and student achievement or higher graduation rates.

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.

College enrollment rates in the first year following high school graduation have also been going up, reaching 70 percent in 2010.

Derek Neal's study of schooling nationwide also identified large positive impacts on Catholic graduation rates and college going.

For now, the good news is that the high school graduation rate is going up.

But the thinking goes like this: If you look at schools that «work,» as measured by test scores and graduation rates, they all have involved (overinvolved?)

To improve our college - going, our retention rates, and our graduation rates, multiple stakeholders need to be involved in finding the solution that best suits students.

In «Graduation Rates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduatGraduation Rates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rRates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduatgraduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rrates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rrates at schools with the same graduationgraduation ratesrates.

Yet, the schools have a 97 percent high school graduation rate, and the majority of students go on to higher education.

Something amazing is going on with high school graduation rates.

Graduation rates have gone up 18 percentage points across the district.

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.

Schools with nearly identical graduation rates can differ by 50 or 60 points in terms of the percentage of graduates who go on to college (compare all the dots in the red circle).

A school may just be bad across - the - board, bad on graduation rates and bad on college - going rates.

The graph plots graduation rates against college - going rates for each high school in Tennessee.

But if policymakers care about concepts like student growth or college - going, they can't rely on graduation rates alone to measure them.

If you construct an accountability system based purely off graduation rates, you're going to get some perverse results.

Several recent reports on college - going suggest factors that might improve college - going rates, especially for students who are at - risk of ending their education with high school graduation.

The upshot of this improvement in college readiness is that, upon graduation, while charter and public school students are just as likely to go on to post-secondary education, charter students enroll at four - year colleges at much higher rates.

They have very high high - school graduation and college - going rates.

One cause of the higher college - going rates was the higher graduation rates of the smaller schools.

Like students in many urban schools, BPS students have lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, and are less likely to go to college than students from nearby suburban districts.

Yet «these gains became ambiguous as time went on» and «did not lead to many improved outcomes in adulthood... with, for example, no statistically significant differences in high school graduation rates, employment, or criminal activity.»

-RRB- While LaGuardia reports a 97 % graduation rate and an 89 % college readiness rate (although only 84 % college enrollment, which makes sense as some kids are going to want to go professional straight away), other schools, like Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, have only a 79 % college readiness rate (which is still higher than NYC's average of 50 %).

A school where the pass rate goes from 65 to 75 percent in a year may be making exceptional progress, but it is hardly adequate if a quarter of the students can't meet the graduation requirements.

• the expansion of college - and career - readiness measures — going beyond graduation rates to include important, new indicators.

YES reports a six - year graduation rate of 41 %, which is four times the national average for demographically similar students (97 % of YES Prep students are Hispanic or African - American, and 90 % would be first - generation college - goers).

A recent study of charter schools in eight states by Rand Corp., a think tank, also found they had higher graduation and college - going rates than traditional public schools, but that test scores were roughly the same.