Sentences with phrase «higher attendance indicator»

At the same time, choosing a 90 percent or higher attendance indicator and giving it a positive label (such as «persistent,» or «consistent,» attendance) can send the wrong message: namely, that students need only attend more than 90 percent of school days to be successful.

Not exact matches

If a class had high attendance numbers in the past, and they have started dropping off recently, it may be an indicator that something has gone wrong recently.

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.»

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).

While rural students are likely to graduate from high school, they lag far behind on every college indicator — applications, admission, attendance, readiness, grades, persistence, and graduation.

By sixth grade, poor attendance is a proven indicator of whether a child will drop out of high school, regardless of economic background (Balfanz, Herzog, & MacIver, 2007).

But GPS seems to have had much more success at Harding High School in Bridgeport, where early indicators, like attendance and school climate, have improved, according to staff and students, The Connecticut Mirror reported.

(Wash.) Education officials in Washington State released a new framework that will be used to identify schools in need of support — and one of the new indicators, attendance, will likely be an early stumbling block for schools in a region known for high rates of chronic absenteeism.

To gain a better understanding of high school effectiveness, I would also want to look at other indicators peculiar to that level, such as graduation rates, SAT scores, higher education attendance and completion rates, and others.

Our research - based processes improve the five key indicators of school performance: fewer discipline referrals, improved attendance, higher student achievement, lower dropout rates, and higher teacher satisfaction.

City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.

Our model's foundation is based on groundbreaking research conducted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Social Organization of Schools showing that up to 75 % of America's high school dropouts can be identified between sixth and ninth grades by the presence of one or more indicators: poor attendance, poor behavior, and course failure in English or math.

Attendance is one example of a high - leverage indicator.

Transfer Schools have also been shown to raise student attendance from 40 % to 78 % (NYC Department of Education, 2006), a major indicator of high school success (Pinkus, 2008).

Taken together, these indicators would communicate the level of attendance that gives students the best chance of success and would ensure that students at high risk of academic failure due to their attendance receive the attention they need.

The authors use follow a cohort of students to demonstrate how indicators reflecting poor attendance, misbehavior and course failure in sixth grade can be used to identify 60 % of the students who will not graduate from high school.

Group indicators by important themes (attendance, early literacy, high school graduation, and college matriculation) 5.

* Read the previous blogs in our series, ESSA Implementation: Keeping Students with Disabilities In School, A Sea Change in Defining and Responding to Poor Attendance, High Quality Attendance Data is More Important Than Ever, and Making the Most of Attendance Indicators.

But Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, questioned whether there were other factors that might explain the higher graduation rate in the small schools, like fewer special education students or better attendance records for those entering the small schools, since attendance rates have been shown to be an indicator of on - time graduation.

These indicators are grouped into the following seven categories: student enrollment and demographics; dropout rate and high school completion; student attendance, suspensions and expulsions; elementary and middle school student achievement; high school performance; youth labor force participation; and youth civic engagement.

North High School adopted restorative practices in 2006 as part of the pilot initiative in Denver Public Schools.Throughout its ten years of implementation, North has moved from a school on turnaround status to the coveted Green School rating, transforming student attendance, student achievement, and other indicators of success.

* Read the previous blogs in our series, A Sea Change in Defining and Responding to Poor Attendance, High Quality Attendance Data is More Important Than Ever, and Making the Most of Attendance Indicators.

The state fared better in education, improving in all of the indicators (pre-school attendance, 4th grade reading proficiency, 8th grade math proficiency, and high school graduation rates).