Sentences with phrase «high numbers of college graduates»

If the percentages are positive — such as high numbers of college graduates, personal incomes or status jobs — they are said to be due to individual achievement.

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Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

He noted that at least 30 years ago, the United States had the highest percentage of college graduates of «any nation on earth,» at number one but that the country now ranks at 11.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

The college enrollment numbers come from Census Bureau Table 276 — College Enrollment of Recent High School Completers, defined as «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 college enrollment numbers come from Census Bureau Table 276 — College Enrollment of Recent High School Completers, defined as «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 College Enrollment of Recent High School Completers, defined as «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 monHigh School Completers, defined as «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 monhigh school in the preceding 12 months.

During the past 12 years, the period in which inclusion has been used more extensively, the number of students with disabilities who have graduated from high school has tripled; the number attending college has doubled.

While this number was, and essentially remains, twice the national average of high school graduates who graduate from a four - year college, we were concerned because although nearly all of the students who left our school were college - bound, we suspected we had missed the mark of college readiness for some of our students.

Expressing concern about the number of high - school graduates who require remedial education in college, the North Carolina State Board of Education has approved a $ 100,000 study of the students» educational history to determine «where things went wrong.»

«No Excuses» Charter Schools Confront High Bar of Expectations as Graduates Enter College in Record Numbers

Natasha Patterson School Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credentials.

(Note: The college enrollment numbers come from Census Bureau table 276 — College Enrollment of Recent High School Completers, defined as: «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 college enrollment numbers come from Census Bureau table 276 — College Enrollment of Recent High School Completers, defined as: «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 College Enrollment of Recent High School Completers, defined as: «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 monHigh School Completers, defined as: «persons 16 to 24 years old who graduated from high school in the preceding 12 monhigh school in the preceding 12 months.

He has been «incredibly explicit,» he says, about «the definition of success for us, [which] is that we dramatically increase the number of children, regardless of birth circumstances, who graduate from high school ready for college and career.»

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

Join influential leaders in higher education to discuss President Obama's 2020 Goal of America to double the number of college graduates.

But in just a few years, the high school's dropout rate has decreased by over half, and both student engagement and the number of students who receive college credit before they graduate have increased.

So, as much as we may want ever - increasing numbers of students to graduate high school ready for college and career, amping up the criteria for attaining the general diploma to such a high degree, at least too quickly, is neither the right thing to do, nor is it practically or politically sensible.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

This will require a jump in the number of students who graduate from high school ready for college.

For the class of 2006, the difference was quite large — 21 percent of black high school graduates completed college, but just 16 percent left high school at a college - ready level in reading (almost exactly the inverse of the numbers for Hispanic students).

There are still too many NYC high school graduates who fall far short of college and career readiness — especially among African - American and Hispanic students, where the numbers, though improved, remain tragically low.

Paul Reville, director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy at MassINC, a nonpartisan think tank in Boston, reviewed many of the written responses from those who failed and bemoaned the high number of the commonwealth's teachers «who were college graduates and yet couldn't string a sentence together.»

One of the overarching goals of the national push to redesign high schools is increasing the number of students who graduate ready for college.

We're in a state with a shamefully low number of college graduates — we can't change that unless more students graduate from high school college ready.

Research shows Oakland charter public schools have successfully demonstrated that they are able to deliver a high - quality public education for their students and graduate higher numbers of students ready for college.

Statewide, the number of high school graduates the Kentucky Department of Education considers college - and career - ready has increased from 34 percent in 2010 to 54 percent today.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials often point to the district's increasing graduation rates, climbing ACT scores, growing college enrollment rates and the numbers of high school freshmen projected to be on track to graduate.

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In 2006, the first cohort of future scholars graduated from high school, and nearly 50 percent enrolled in college; that number increased to 80 percent for the second cohort (Marsh, 2007).

The trip enabled participants to see programs intended to increase the number of students graduating with a high school diploma ready for college and careers.

In it, she said that the Common Core standards will ensure that Connecticut remains a place where people want to live, work and invest in their future, that the standards are clear and high and will make students ready for college and careers, and that those standards will cause children of poverty to graduate from high school in increasing numbers.

«Our goal is to turn around the 5,000 lowest - performing schools over the next five years, as part of our overall strategy for dramatically reducing the dropout rate, improving high school graduation rates and increasing the number of students who graduate prepared for success in college and the workplace,» said Arne Duncan, the administration's new secretary of education in August of that year.

Huge numbers of students were graduating from high school unprepared either for college work or modern employment.

The higher education and business communities are speaking out about the huge numbers of high school graduates not prepared for work or college.

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Overview If the U.S. is to increase the number of college graduates and boost our national competitiveness, we must redouble our efforts to ensure all students graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary learning and careers.

Research suggests that cutting the number of high school dropouts by even a quarter could contribute more than $ 12 million to the economy for each graduating class — and as much as $ 5 million more if those students go on to college.

(Tenn.) A first - of - its - kind college tuition program is showing huge gains in its inaugural year with the number of high school graduates enrolling full - time in the state's community colleges jumping 14 percent this fall.

«Increasing college enrollment, taken together with recent increases in CPS students» Freshman OnTrack rates, ACT scores, and high school GPAs, suggests the number of CPS graduates attaining a bachelor's degree will rise over time.»

As the country embarks on a quest to increase its number of college graduates, a majority of students graduating from its high schools are still not prepared for university - level work.

«Parking Meter» charter school is one of the growing number of Chicago charter high schools that have taken to bragging about the large percentage of their graduates who go on to college.

(Clark said the school's internal numbers show 66 percent of the 2014 graduates were enrolled in college, which would still make it fourth highest.)

The network in New York City consisted of nine schools that were united in their aim to increase the number of students who graduate high school with the skills needed to succeed in college.

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We believed we could create a school that produces on - time high school graduates AND students who experienced and earned a serious number of college credits, indeed earn their Associate Degree, while enrolled with us.

We have nearly 100 % graduation rates each of the past five years, our students are earning an average of 13 college credits before graduating from our high school, and we are increasing the number of Gary homes with Associate and Bachelor degrees.

GEO students graduate from high school with an average of 20 college credits — and this number is growing — earn thousands in academic scholarships and go to college.

Many traditional high schools and private schools also grade themselves by calculating the number of their graduates accepted into colleges — but then rarely follow up to ensure that those students even enroll in their freshman year of college, let alone complete their studies to earn degrees.

In the past, preparing students to graduate from high school and move on to college used to involve preparation in terms of a relatively small number of skills.

Large numbers of PUC students have now successfully graduated high school with either an AA degree being awarded from a community college simultaneously or up to 50 college transferable college units or more already having been completed.

As a number of high - performing charter management organizations (CMOs) saw cohorts of high school graduates enter college, they discovered that many were not succeeding.