Sentences with phrase «greater risk of dropping out»

At the secondary level, students who are chronically absent are at greater risk of dropping out.

These struggling students often end up behind in gaining needed requirements for graduation and college, and are at greater risk of dropping out.

Such a pattern could indicate that traditional schools are weeding out students at greater risk of dropping out, although there are many reasons why graduation rates rise.

The policy change was motivated by a new curriculum the district is launching and by research showing those retained are at greater risk of dropping out.

They observed that «in many parts of the world» these stereotypes leave girls at greater risk of dropping out of school or suffering physical and sexual violence, child marriage, early pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Not surprisingly, teenagers growing up with only one parent are at greater risk of dropping out of school, of having a child of their own during the teen years, and of being neither in school nor in the work - force during young adulthood.

Test - based accountability policies have also led educators to focus on students who have a reasonable chance, with additional support, of passing high - stakes tests, to the detriment of those students at the greatest risk of dropping out (Booher - Jennings 2005).

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Its findings bolster the research - based consensus that suspensions predict lower achievement, higher drop out rates, and greater risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system.

The analysis contributes to mounting evidence that absenteeism puts students at greater risk of poor academic achievement and eventually dropping out of high school.

the policy has been watered down in the past 15 years because of outside pressure, including a major 2004 study by the Consortium on Chicago School Research that definitively showed the dramatic negative effects of retention — in particular, the far greater risk of eventually dropping out.

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