Sentences with phrase «graduation rates between»

According to the study's authors, this effect is equivalent in magnitude to cutting about 43 percent of the gap in graduation rates between white students and students of color in New York City.

Directly south of San Francisco lays a cluster of districts with graduation rates between 90 and 95 percent.

The rankings combine international test results and data such as graduation rates between 2006 and 2010.

Narrowing the gulf on test scores and graduation rates between low - income students — many of whom are in the state's urban areas — and their more affluent peers has been a daunting obstacle in Connecticut for years.

And the gap in graduation rates between whites and blacks and Hispanics is narrower in Texas than in the nation as a whole and is gradually closing.

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.

While the difference in high school graduation rates between high - and low - income students shrunk, inequality...

Evans, Edgewater, and West Orange high schools saw jumps of more than 10 percentage points in their graduation rates between the 2011 and 2014 school years.

The long period of stagnation in graduation rates between 1970 and 2000 is especially puzzling given that the financial rewards for completing high school rose sharply during these years.

The data reveal striking patterns in high school graduation rates between 1970 and 2010 (see Figure 1).

Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

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

However, despite generally good performance overall, Wisconsin also retains the unfortunate distinction of having the widest graduation rate between white and black students in the nation and the tenth highest gap between white and Latino students graduating in four years, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

Differences between low - and high - income children in reading and math achievement are much larger now than they were several decades ago, as are differences in college graduation rates.

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.

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

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

Between 2003 and 2010, Ontario's high school graduation rate rose from 68 % to 79 %.

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.

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

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.

We know from a 2003 study by Julian Betts and Jeff Grogger that there is a trade - off between higher standards (for what it takes to get a good grade) and graduation rates, at least for children of color.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

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.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

Census data reveal that high - school graduation rates climbed from 61 percent to 90 percent between 1960 and 2012; during roughly the same time period, college enrollments rose from 26 percent to 41 percent.

While other studies have explored the link between the labor market and high school graduation rates, this new research is the first to look at how young people's perceptions of the job market affects the way they study and plan while still in high school — habits that are key for success throughout adulthood.

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.

There is a clear correlation between reading proficiency and poverty when it comes to high school graduation rates.

A decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act ushered in an era of federally driven educational accountability focused on narrowing the chasms between the test scores and graduation rates of students of different incomes and races.

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.

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.

The graduation rate for Olympia's low - income population rose by 7 percentage points between the 2012 and 2016 school years, for instance.

This was measured as the percentage point difference between the graduation rate at alternative schools and regular schools in the same district.

Yet evidence from two independent sources now shows that, in fact, the graduation rate increased substantially between 2000 and 2010.

Some 95 percent of Teacher U's 2010 graduates and 98 percent of its 2011 graduates met the 70 percent targets, he said, although the graduation rate over the two - year master's program is lower, between 70 percent and 80 percent because of attrition, Hostetter noted.

Data about the credit - recovery industry are too incomplete, and change of all kinds too omnipresent in K — 12 education, to posit a definite link between the spread of online courses and increased graduation rates nationally.

Between 1900 and 1970, high school graduation rates rose dramatically, from 6 percent to 80 percent, but then rates stagnated between 1970 anBetween 1900 and 1970, high school graduation rates rose dramatically, from 6 percent to 80 percent, but then rates stagnated between 1970 anbetween 1970 and 2000.

They studied college graduation rates among alumni of nine top charter school networks and found that these graduates were between three and five times as likely as demographically similar district school graduates to complete college.

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.

Leaving School Empty Handed: A Report on Graduation and Dropout Rates for Students who Receive Special Education Services In New York City This report examines the graduation outcomes of the more than 170,000 children currently classified as having disabilities and in need of special education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996 - 1997 and 2003 Graduation and Dropout Rates for Students who Receive Special Education Services In New York City This report examines the graduation outcomes of the more than 170,000 children currently classified as having disabilities and in need of special education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996 - 1997 and 2003 graduation outcomes of the more than 170,000 children currently classified as having disabilities and in need of special education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996 - 1997 and 2003 - 2004....

IDRA's analysis of STAAR student group performance rates, college readiness outputs, graduation rates and dropout rates reflect significant gaps between economically disadvantaged and non - economically disadvantaged students and between EL and non-EL students, in spite of some success individual economically disadvantaged and EL students are experiencing in classroom across Texas.

Connecticut's graduation rates are in line with the rest of the nation, but there are huge gaps between rich and poor districts.