Sentences with phrase «graduation rates does»

An increase in graduation rates doesn't mean more students are ready for college.

Despite that arguably worrisome state of affairs, the longer - term trajectory of change for the country's graduation rate does offer some reason to be cautiously optimistic.

But worst of all, graduation rates don't tell us very much about whether students are prepared for life after graduation.

Graduation rates don't tell us very much about whether students are prepared for life after graduation.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

The dropout rate and graduation rate do not total 100 percent because some students complete high school through means other than a high school diploma (e.g., students with a GED, students with disabilities who have participated in alternative assessment, or students who have transferred into higher education or an applied technology college without graduating high school) and some special education students are retained in high school beyond their senior year.

High school graduation rates did increase, but favorable demographic changes and the easing of requirements for receiving a diploma may have helped those improvements along (Ravitch, 2013).

Not exact matches

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

Number 3 is in place so that the graduation success rate stays high and programs don't get in trouble with the NCAA.

Even as you have done away with the recreational - education and physical - education majors in which football players were often stashed, an enhanced academic support system has helped the team's graduation rate climb steadily, topping out in the respectable low 70's the last time the NCAA checked.

At the time, the best measure was the graduation rate calculated under the federally mandated methodology that was based on a six - year window and did not take transfers into account.

I draw on the work of many analysts, including Melissa Roderick at the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research and the authors of the book «Crossing the Finish Line,» to suggest that doing a better job of developing non-cognitive skills in students could be a particularly fruitful way to increase college - graduation rates.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

... Students who do well on AP exams tend to do better in college and have higher graduation rates, but it is unclear whether this is a direct result of the AP program.

What effect does early education have on graduation rates, pregnancy, and violent crime?

The study showed that the states that spent the most did not have the highest average ACT test scores, nor did they have the highest average graduation rates.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America's graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades.

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.

The mayor said an evaluation system would highlight the «amazing» job that teachers have done to improve graduation rates, adding that a «handful of teachers» could use «remedial work,» while others «can not be in front of our kids.»

The mayor would no doubt say this has brought major results — he most frequently cites an increase in graduation rates, but critics point to indicators that would say otherwise, including relatively flat test scores and the small percentage of city graduates who are prepared to do college level work.

«While the upward trend in New York state's graduation rates continues, there is still much work to do,» Elia said.

So what ideas exist to help more students with similar stories and how does that happen in a district that maintains low academic standing and graduation rates along with many other challenges?

While the statewide high school graduation rate last year was 74 percent, only 35 percent of students who began high school in 2007 were considered ready to do entry - level college work four years later.

IN THEIR CONVERSATION THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT CHANGES SHOULD BE DONE TO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN ORDER TO HAVE A HIGHER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE, AND WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO CURB LOW TEST SCORES.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

Other school districts outside of New York State have similar demographics to Buffalo, but are doing a much better job in improving graduation rates.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

The 20 partnerships KIPP has entered into with colleges, including the University of Houston, Tulane, Morehouse, Spelman, Syracuse, Duke, and New York City's Hunter College, will improve KIPP's graduation rates by 7 to 8 percent «even if we did nothing else,» says Barth.

however, can tell us nothing about the experience of attending a charter school from the very beginning — nor about the longer term impact of attending a charter school such as was done by a nifty charter graduation rate study carried out by Kevin Booker, Tim R. Sass, Brian Gill, and Ron Zimmer («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools»).

«Foundation president Bill Gates concluded that small schools did not have the effect on college readiness and graduation rates that he expected,» explained researchers from Duke and MIT.

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.

Once good standards and decent tests are in place, states should release test scores (and other revealing information such as graduation rates) every which way, and they should rate their schools on an easy to understand scale, ideally from A to F, as Florida started doing under Governor Jeb Bush.

A sharply worded report released June 23 takes states to task for calculating graduation rates in ways that it contends yield artificially low estimates of the nation's dropout problem — and it upbraids federal education officials for letting them do it.

We could use the number of twelfth - grade students, but that overstates the true graduation rate because it does not count students who have dropped out.

Though they had it in hand, they didn't need data to see the impact of, for example, low graduation rates on the health of their communities.

90,000 out of 1 million doesn't sound so good, but without improving our graduation or proficiency rates for these children, we'd only be taking about 40,000 kids.

The graduation rate calculation says he should graduate in two springs from now; if he doesn't, the school's graduation rate falls.

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

The big questions didn't seem to matter, even in a district, like mine, where graduation rates hovered around 60 percent and proficiency scores around 50 percent.

Why should we think that campus climate, facilities, and faculty have anything to do with the higher graduation rates at more - selective institutions?

The department approved the graduation - rate formulas of all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, many of which didn't require tracking the percentage of students who graduated within four years of entering high school, the IG's office...

While Crossing the Finish Line doesn't provide strong evidence on what will work to increase college graduation rates, it points to four areas that will very likely have to be part of the equation:

I recently had the chance to chat with Kristin about Urban Assembly, what they do, and some of the challenges they've faced on timely questions like graduation rates and school discipline.

Looking beyond graduation rates, we also found that the phase - out process did not have a clear impact — positive or negative — on other academic outcomes for the phase - out cohort, such as credits earned or Regents exams passed, or on attendance.

Which is apt to put even more ill - considered pressure on graduation rates or else throw states back to SAT and ACT results even when those are useless for students who don't take the tests.

There is an exception when it comes to SAT and ACT scores: at the most selective universities, SAT and ACT scores do predict both graduation rates and student grades.

With a graduation rate of about 78 percent — much lower for African American and Hispanic students — we know that many of them do leave.

They don't know, for example, that schools like Stanford will offer full scholarships to students from a household income below $ 125,000 and that schools like Amherst have the highest graduation rates for low - income and minority students in the country.

But what will we do when we face hard trade - offs, such as the likely discovery that higher graduation standards will lead to a higher failure (and dropout) rate?

«Grades and test scores and graduation rates are important, but we also need to ask ourselves, «Do the kids get along with each other?