Sentences with phrase «high school completion rates»

The study also relates the index to changes in student retention in the 9th grade and to changes in high school completion rates over the same period.

Furthermore, students in high - accountability states do not have significantly higher retention or lower high school completion rates.

Although the overall high school completion rates have increased over the past century, schools still face the challenge of how to prevent students from deciding to leave.

These factors vary considerably by state, as do high school completion rates.

The extra effort that schools make to support students in all these circumstances will likely determine whether schools achieve higher or lower high school completion rates than expected.

Connecticut, however, is among the top 13 states with high school completion rates of 90 percent or better, according to the NCES.

To show what this looks like, I pulled college - going rates and high school completion rates for each state from the National Center for Education Statistics.

The Achieve Texas College & Career Initiative centers on establishing career clusters in schools as a strategy for improving high school completion rates & college & workforce readiness.

Both schools tied for the 48th highest high school completion rate in Georgia with nearly 93 percent of its seniors receiving a diploma.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

The only outcome data from the time period when DTB laws were being passed is high school completion rates from the US Census.

The answer is yes, as proved by Donelle McInerney, a PE teacher at Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury, Western Australia, whose Indigenous Yorgas Sports Academy has increased girls» high school completion rates seven-fold.

Only seven states showed an increase in high school completion rates during the decade; rates in the remaining states declined (Barton, 2005b).

To learn more about increasing school completion rates, we should study both those states that greatly exceed the expected high school completion rate and those that fall far below it for clues about what these states are doing differently.

However, my analysis did not produce evidence conclusively linking high school completion rates to any of these factors.

«First, significant reduction of deprivation can be attained by implementing new policies related to health insurance coverage, such as through the Affordable Care Act; improving high school completion rates, especially among Hispanics; and constraining housing costs.

Statesboro STEAM Academy tied for the 27th highest high school completion rate in the state.

Wisconsin's overall five - year high school completion rate is 91.6 percent, roughly three percentage points higher than the four - year rate.

Although the overall high school completion rates have increased over the past century, schools still face the challenge of how to prevent students...

Presenting some new and revised data released since its first report a year ago, the panel of governors, Bush Administration officials, and members of Congress reported positive trends in high school completion rates, Advanced Placement course enrollments, and student drug and alcohol use.

Murnane (2013) finds that high school completion rates have been increasing since 1970 with larger increases for black and Hispanic students; Baum, Ma and Pavea (2013) find that postsecondary enrollment rates have been increasing since the 1980s, particularly for those from poor families.

Chronic absenteeism; high school completion rate (based on diplomas and GEDs; looser than cohort grad rate).

The high school completion rate for 18 - to 24 - year - olds has risen only slightly over the past three decades, despite an ever - sharpening focus on education issues over that same period, the U.S. Department of Education has reported.

«An indicator with important policy considerations is the high school completion rate,» Lippman told Education World.

High school completion rates have also been rising for other racial and ethnic groups, but their rates were not at record highs in 2013.

Numerous indicators, from standardized test scores to high school completion rates, show blacks and Latinos trailing their white and Asian peers.

Indeed, a vigorous critique of the effects of large - scale assessment has developed as the tests in question have become increasingly high - stakes for students, teachers, and administrators.233 On the other hand, in a comparison of high - and low - accountability states, Carnoy and Loeb (2002) found significantly greater achievement in eighth - grade mathematics for students in high - accountability states, with no difference in retention or high school completion rates.

Michael Fullan (formerly U Toronto, now independent consultant) was part of a team that led education reform in Ontario, Canada, which now has Canada's most rigorous provincial education system and highest school completion rates in Canada.

The long - dormant concern about dropouts revived several years ago, however, when half a dozen independent researchers in universities and think tanks began publishing estimates of high school completion rates that contradicted the official rates.

At the same time that high school completion rates have fallen, labor market prospects for dropouts are becoming increasingly dire.

Jay Greene at the Manhattan Institute estimated a high school completion rate of 71 percent for 1998; Christopher Swanson and Duncan Chaplin at the Urban Institute estimated 66.6 percent for 2000; Thomas Mortenson of Postsecondary Education Opportunity estimated 66.1 percent for 2000; Andrew Sum and colleagues at Northeastern University estimated 68.7 percent for 1998; and Walter Haney and colleagues at Boston College estimated 74.4 percent for 2001.

The recent independent estimates of high school completion rates are almost always lower than the official estimates — including those that states have reported to the U.S. Department of Education under the requirements of No Child Left Behind and the state estimates from the National Center for Education Statistics.

The factors identified in the GAO report — that low - income students and high - mobility students are high - risk, that low achievement and grade retention are precursors to leaving school — provide a guide for what we need to do to improve high school completion rates.

The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.

In fact, the high school completion rates of black students did not stall until the mid-1980s, diverging slightly from the overall trend, though the substantial graduation gap between whites and minorities has changed very little in the last 35 years (Heckman and LaFontaine 2010).

The country is trying to boost its high school completion rates to 90 percent.

Pataula Charter Academy and Hapeville Charter Career Academy placed in the top 50 in the state for their high school completion rate.

Data Quality Campaign and Chalkboard Project examine nine states and their high school completion rates and suggest ways to impact high school completion.

Barton cites a General Accounting Office report that identified four factors correlated with low high school completion rates: coming from low - income and single - parent families, getting low grades in school, being absent frequently, and changing schools.

In 2009, a research project identified correlations between major changes in family structure and high school completion rates.