Sentences with phrase «graduation rates increased between»

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.

Storey County, Lincoln County and SPCSA increased their graduation rates by more than 9 percentage points, while Carson City, Lyon, Lander and Elko Counties saw their graduation rates increase between 5 and 7 percentage points.

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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.

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

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.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Kudos to Kelly Griffith and Victor Sensenig for their clear exposition of graduation rate trends and the potential relationship between flat or falling graduation rates and increases in state standards and accountability demands.

Recent studies indicate that while it increased in the last decade, there was also a period between 1970 and 2000 when the graduation rate remained flat or even declined.

The gap between the skills with which students graduate from high school and what colleges expect them to be able to do has come under increased scrutiny, as federal policymakers push states to increase college graduation rates.

Additional data included in the report shows graduation rates for English language learners increased from 16 to 45 percent between 2008 and 2011 and that graduation rates for economically disadvantaged students has increased from 54 to 63 percent over that same time period.

The GradNation State Activation initiative is a collaboration between America's Promise Alliance and Pearson working to increase high school graduation rates to 90 percent.

The increase in graduation rate means 2.8 million more students graduated rather than dropping out between 2002 - 2015.

She has developed numerous partnerships between public schools, non-profits, higher education institutions, businesses, foundations, and industry in order to bolster student achievement and success that increased participation in after school programs, increased high school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, access to and achievement in advanced and rigorous coursework for historically underserved youth.

SI&A's products and services are strengthening the partnership between schools and homes: increasing parent communication, recovering learning time, improving graduation rates and closing the achievement gap.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.