Sentences with phrase «high student attendance»

The Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) academic program aims to improve students» performance in reading, writing, and math, reduce dropout rates, achieve high student attendance rates, and increase the number of students who pursue careers in STEAM areas.

High student attendance not only sets up students for success in the classroom, but it also prepares them to compete in the workplace, said District 220 Superintendent Brian Harris.

Based on recent research on Baltimore City's community schools, the authors highlight the approaches shared by community school coordinators in schools that have demonstrated comparatively high student attendance and positive school climate.

In this study, we interviewed the coordinators in community schools identified as having comparatively higher student attendance and more positive school climate than peer community schools.

Researchers interviewed the coordinators in community schools identified as having comparatively higher student attendance and more positive school climate than peer community schools.

Not exact matches

«Despite the much higher costs of attendance, earnings effects are smaller in the for - profit sector relative to the effects for comparable students in public community colleges — a result that holds for all but one of the top 10 fields of study,» according to the study abstract.

Also expected to be in attendance are students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were shot and killed last week, and survivors and parents of Sandy Hook.

Last week, several parents at a Bethesda, Maryland high school expressed concern over the planned attendance of a Gatorade sales rep at a mandatory pre-season meeting for student athletes.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

Research I carried out at college showed that students on EMA had higher attendance rates than those not receiving it.

The region boasts a superior public education system — low student / teacher ratios of 12:1, high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go on to college.

At this week's Haverstraw Town Board meeting, three North Rockland High School Thomas F.X. Casey Social Studies Honor Society students presented their Rockland County championship winning «Haverstraw Landslide» project to the Town Board and all in attendance at the meeting.

One of two Stuyvesant High School students injured when the attacker rammed his truck into their yellow school bus in Lower Manhattan was back in class the very next day — all to keep his perfect attendance record.

«We know that students who have strong attendance generally demonstrate better grades and better school performance overall, and certainly higher graduation rates,» Brown said.

By all accounts, young Charlie wasn't an especially distinguished student; though he was a star on Santa Monica High School's baseball team, he was expelled due to poor attendance and bad grades only a few weeks before his class graduated.

This chapter provides a historical review on service - learning research findings, concluding that the studies generally indicate that students who participate in service learning maintain higher levels of motivation for learning, incur fewer disciplinary problems in the classroom, demonstrate improved attendance, possess higher self - esteem, and are less likely to drop out of school.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

Attendance for students in that program was 87.5 percent, almost 10 percent higher than the district average, and only 3.4 percent of students in academies there dropped out of school — less than one - third the figure for students districtwide.

Principal Mike O'Connor makes attendance data a «big deal» at Brisbane's Browns Plains State High School and is only too happy to shine a spotlight on student absence.

Collins, who became the high school principal in August, hired an attendance officer after he noticed that some students had missed as many as ten days of school by mid-October.

To receive a student self - attendance tracker template, or find out more about the strategies being used at Browns Plains State High School, email Principal Mike O'Connor on [email protected]

And it is these experiences in high - quality after - school programs that have been shown to increase students» attendance in after - school programs and during the school day.

In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.

«Nearly all states are building high - tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools,» reported the New York Times in a front - page story last May, confirming the scope of the trend.

In 1989, my dream of attending college on a football and track scholarship was shattered when I graduated high school with a 1.56 GPA, a ranking of 413 out of 435 students in my senior class, an 820 on the SAT, a 19 on the ACT, a dismal attendance record, and absolutely no idea about what I wanted to do with my life.

(p. 22) On later earnings they find: «Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.»

Although student attendance rates at Browns Plains State High School are heading in the right direction, O'Connor is not complacent.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

(p, 18) College attendance benefits are also fleeting: «Similar to the results for high school graduation, however, control students eventually catch up and make the treatment effects on college enrollment insignificant.»

The real pressures on such schools and their staffs are to meet student needs that are often ubiquitous and acute in such communities (e.g., health, nutrition, remediation, attendance, language, discipline) rather than to maximize the learning of their high achievers.

Neither student test scores nor attendance has risen dramatically, but attendance was high before the schedule change, Creal said.

A midrange estimate derived from this literature is that about 10 percent of voucher - using students from low - income families in big cities would have attended private schools anyway (the percentage is higher for one - year attendance and lower for more sustained attendance).

In order to assess this possibility, we ran the analyses for high school graduation and college attendance again with an additional control for the total number of students attending the school.

Brian Gill talks with Education Next about why students who attend charter high schools have higher rates of high school graduation and college attendance.

Commentary on «Great Teaching: Measuring its effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]

One must have data on school type (charter or public) and test scores of individual students prior to high school, individual - level high school attendance records and exit information, and college attendance after high school.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.

In the earlier study, students who toured an art museum expressed significantly stronger interest in future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control group.

The report describes the project and discusses the factors, such as grades and attendance, that are identified as predictive of high - risk students.

(A team of four high school parents and the school's attendance coordinator work directly with truant students and their parents.)

If they're seeing that they have a high - risk student and that student has really poor attendance and course grades, and those indicators went into determining that they were high risk, then they should be having a conversation with the parents and the student about why those are important things, so that they stay on track.»

The district has a high attendance rate of 96 %, with the majority of students who are absent being out for excused illness.

But they disregard Fusaro's own strong warning: «A seductive conclusion from these results is that attendance at full - day kindergartens causes students to achieve at a higher level than attendance at half - day kindergartens.

A review establishes that the higher suspension rates for black students in the district were primarily due to the harsher attendance rules at the schools with majority black enrollment.

To explore these questions, we studied the 29 high school closures begun between 2003 and 2009 in New York City to determine the degree to which a closure affected a range of student outcomes, including graduation rates, mobility, attendance, and academic performance.

The challenges included highest attendance, cleanest hallway and lockers, most canned food collected during the annual food drive, number of students on the honor roll, highest amount of homework turned in on time, and most pennies collected during a penny drive.

For example, in a recent Evidence Speaks post, Jing Liu and Susanna Loeb reported that high school teachers have differential effects on unexcused class absences — that is, when students miss only part of the school day — highlighting how the academic environment can influence school attendance.