Sentences with phrase «high percentages of students on»

The students involved in the project attend two Title 1 schools from Sparks, Nevada — Sparks Middle School and Sparks High School, both with high percentages of students on free and reduced - priced lunch — and Cottonwood Elementary School, a K - 4 school in Fernley, Nevada.

Interestingly, one of these schools had the highest percentage of students on subsidized lunch (92 %) in the entire sample.

Not exact matches

According to a recent report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a higher percentage of college graduates have fallen behind on their student loan payments.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Herzek's positive statements on the proposal and access to higher education generally, and his statistic about the percentage of low - income students attending his college, appear verbatim in his endorsement from the governor's press release.

«Everyone I know is not running to timetable,» he says, adding that he thinks easing up on the time will lead to a higher percentage of students finishing successfully.

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

Although this specific survey was conducted only on college students, the high percentage of young adults who keep potential partners on hand has larger implications for our society as a whole.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

We chose three urban districts with high percentages of minority and low - income students (at least 60 percent on both counts) in each region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West).

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

This high proportion of overseas students on campus also inflates our graduation rates: if international students are excluded, the report says the ratio of students completing tertiary courses drops by a startling 17 percentage points while the rates for first - time shorter and more vocationally oriented rates fall by only 3 percentage points.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

But if percentages of students identified as proficient are higher on a state's own tests than on NAEP tests, then it may be concluded that the state has set its proficiency bar lower than the NAEP standard.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey also found steadily declining percentages of high - school students who reported fighting or carrying weapons on school property during the 1990s.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

For example, Ohio adjusts value - added calculations for high mobility, and Arizona calculates the percentage of students enrolled for a full academic year and weighs measures of test score levels and growth differently based on student mobility and length of enrollment.

In the 2006 — 7 school year, MSAT, CAT, and Envision's third campus, Metropolitan Arts & Tech High School (Metro), outperformed the state average on the percentage of 10th - grade students passing the California High School Exit Exam.

Below is the percentage of students scoring at the «proficient» level or higher on the reading NAEP, meaning they demonstrated mastery over the challenging subject matter.

Scope: Compares the percentage of students passing or receiving high marks on standardized state tests in reading, math, writing, and science in various grade levels.

If you simply rely on people having to come to your eLearning portal by themselves every day, you'll eventually realize that a higher percentage of students won't bother to check in for long periods of time.

Thus, we control for teacher experience (novice or not), and the following four classroom - level variables: percentage of high - achieving students, percentage of low - achieving students, percentage of students on IEPs, and percentage of ELLs.

In other words, increasing the share of eighth graders in tracked courses by ten percentage points is associated with an additional 20,000 students scoring 3 or higher on AP exams nationwide.

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

By comparing the percentage of students deemed proficient on each, it is possible to determine whether states are setting expectations higher, lower, or equal to the NAEP standard.

For instance, states with higher percentages of certified teachers may also have strong accountability systems that focus their schools on student achievement.

According to a 2002 study of children in Dane County, Wisconsin, by urban - policy consultant David Rusk, low - income children at schools with a middle - class majority scored 20 - 32 percent higher on standardized tests compared with what their scores would be at schools with a lower percentage of middle - class students.

Indeed, when we calculate effects by the percentage of students at a high school who attend college, we find no evidence of effects on college choice in the schools with the lowest college - sending rates.

A report on the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results examines trends in Australia's average performance and the change in the percentages of students considered «high» and «low» performers.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

A higher percentage of students are on track for college and career readiness after using the Achieve3000 platform during the 2016 - 2017 school year.

Nevadas standing increased for several reasons: A higher percentage of the state's public schools are now charters, a higher percentage of the state's public school students are now charter students, there is a diverse array of schools (which increases the innovation score), and Nevada fared well on the new accountability metrics.

For three of the last five years, OCPS was named to the AP District Honor Roll by the College Board for increasing access to Advanced Placement course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams.

Maryland's scores on a national reading test may have been inflated because the state's schools excluded a higher percentage of special - education students than any other state, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.

If a Title I school has a percentage of students from low - income families that is 40 percent or higher, the Title I program may be operated on a schoolwide basis, meaning services may be provided to all enrolled students.

While this is a reasonable approach, given the high percentages of students from low - income families in CEP schools, such a policy tends to conflict with the heavy emphasis placed by the ESEA on measuring achievement gaps between students from low - income families and other students in establishing performance consequences for schools.

Most recently, multiple analyses of the New York City Choice Scholarships Foundation program found that students who received scholarships as a result of a lottery had math scores that were five percentage points higher on average than the control group.

For high school students, participation rate means the percentage of designated students in at least their fourth year of high school, as designated by the commissioner, who received a valid score on the required assessments for high schools, as set forth in subparagraph (v) of this paragraph.

The press release at least mentioned the study's finding that «having a higher percentage of teachers with master's degrees and extensive teaching experience appears to have comparatively little effect on student achievement across states.

[4] In other words, over 90 percent of those in recent age cohorts are not performing at a reasonably high level on any externally administered, subject - specific examination, a possible explanation for the much lower percentage of US students than students in many other advanced industrial societies who are performing at the «advanced» level on international tests.

To explore this, I examined achievement changes by item type for low -, moderate -, and high - performing schools, as measured by the percentage of students scoring at or above national norms on the ITBS reading exam in 1995.

The answer to that puzzle is actually quite simple and has little to do with the fact that Phillips compares average student performance while our study focuses on advanced students: many OECD countries, including those that had a high percentage of high - achieving students, participated in PISA 2006 (upon which our analysis is based) but did not participate in either TIMSS 2003 or TIMSS 2007, the two surveys included in the Phillips studies.

Comparing Noble high schools only to other charter schools and adjusting for other differences in students» background produces an estimated Noble effect of 13 percentage points on college enrollment — a large, significant difference.

In general, the higher the percentage of students in a school eligible for Free Lunch, the lower the percentage of students who score proficient or above on state tests.

The Lab School boasts that 90 percent of its students go on to college, a significantly higher percentage than the national average.

So the board this year unveiled a new measure that it described as «the best single measure of equity and excellence in AP»: the percentage of the student body or of a graduating class that earns a passing score of 3 or higher on at least one AP exam.

In many cases, the charter community does reflect lower percentages of enrollment for these high need students than the traditional district schools on an aggregated level.