Sentences with phrase «higher college attendance»

And in higher education, Duncan cited funding increases to the Pell Grant program, higher college attendance and graduation rates for students of color, and a new emphasis on campus safety and preventing sexual assaults.

according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.47 Students in economically integrated schools also have higher college attendance rates than students in segregated school settings.48

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.

Sarah and Matt also discuss a new white paper on the effects of redshirting in kindergarten (delaying a kid's start by a year), which suggest that being old for one's grade may result in higher test scores, increased college attendance, and reduced likelihood of incarceration for juvenile crime.

That's the upshot of a new study that finds the decline in church attendance since the 1970s among white Americans without college degrees is twice as high as for those with college degrees.

The decline in church attendance among whites without college degrees is twice as high as for those with college degrees.

Hispanics have seen some heartening gains over the last few years, with a decline in the poverty rate, an increase in annual income, and college attendance rates at a higher percentage than whites.

The Afterschool Alliance, an information clearinghouse and advocacy group, reports kids who participate in after - school programs have better school attendance, higher grades and loftier aspirations about graduation and college attendance.

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 district has received high rankings for it graduation and college attendance rate.

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.

The Utica College Pioneers have a strong local fan base and consistently sell out the Aud for games, which has led to the nation's highest average attendance for a NCAA Division III hockey team.

The authors compared job loss rates during middle and high school years with college attendance rates a few years later, at 19 years of age.

Without correction, the simulation showed that STEM majors could expect an even larger lifetime earnings premium: $ 2.2 million more than high school graduates with no college attendance, instead of $ 1.5 million.

• Parents» supportive interactions, expectations for their child to earn a college degree and child's preschool attendance were higher among families in the higher socioeconomic groups.

Whether you're talking home ownership, unemployment, high school graduation, wages, access to healthcare, net worth, retirement savings, college attendance, financial aid or consumer debt, African - Americans have experienced a dispiriting downward mobility.

A 2006 study by the U.S. Department of Education, for example, found that success in high school algebra, and algebra II in particular, was highly correlated with college attendance and graduation.

His research on the impact of Head Start on long - term outcomes such as high school graduation and college attendance was published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

EW: What do you think is behind the high dropout rate and decreasing college attendance rate for boys?

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, 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.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.college enrollment insignificant.»

She gathered 30 of her influential College Summit twelfth - grade Peer Leaders to enlist them to create and run attendance campaigns in her high schools.

Studies have long demonstrated that parental involvement in a child's education at home and school results in higher grades and test scores, enrollment in higher - level programs, and higher graduation rates and college 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-...]

The results, point out the researchers, are comparable to those of some studies which find that attending a Catholic high school boosts the likelihood of high school graduation and college attendance by 10 to 18 percentage points.

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.

We find evidence that charter high schools in both locations have substantial positive effects on both high school completion and college attendance.

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.

All the reasons suggested above: the higher quantity of education in the United States, greater college attendance, retention of our scientists and engineers (while attracting foreign immigrants), and greater innovative capacity.

[3] Hyman analyzed the test scores and college attendance of all public, high school students in Michigan, before and after the ACT was made universal.

It is time for the evaluation debate over school choice to begin shifting its focus to real world outcomes, like high school graduation and college attendance rates.

High school graduation and college attendance rates are substantially higher for participating minority students compared to peers.

• A different Chetty study reports that «students who were randomly assigned to higher - quality classrooms in grades K — 3 — as measured by classmates» end - of - class test scores — have higher earnings, college attendance rates, and other outcomes.»

Analyzing a sample of 58,000 11th - grade Hispanic PSAT / NMSQT takers from the graduating high school classes of 2004 to 2010, the authors find that the NHRP dramatically alters college attendance patterns.

The thinking is that making applying to higher education mandatory will encourage college attendance, which in turn will help create a generation of children who will be able to compete as well as attract the jobs of the future to the state.

A randomized study by MDRC found that students in academies were less likely to drop out, had significantly better attendance, and had a 20 percent higher college - application rate than their peers not in academies.

For the past 16 years, the Puente program has strived to boost the academic achievement of underserved Latino high school students, who have the highest dropout rate and lowest college attendance among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

In a study of her attendance zone, Ms. Orr found that, 50 years after the War on Poverty spawned a succession of programs aimed at expanding the pipeline of low - income students entering higher education, college - going remains an elusive goal for many.

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, avoiding teenage pregnancy, and the quality of the neighborhood in which they reside as adults.

Schools and programs that increase test score quite often do not yield higher high school graduation or college attendance rates.

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.

The most striking finding was that charter — high school attendance may positively affect the chance that a student will graduate and go on to college — two critical outcomes that have not been examined in previous research — suggesting the need to look beyond achievement - test scores when measuring the effectiveness of charter schools.

By every criteria and measure we use, reading and math scores in NAEP, high school graduation, drop - out rates, college attendance rates, public education's performance is the best that is has ever been.

Table 2 provides eighth - grade math scores by parental education — specifically for students with parents with the highest level of attainment having been a high school graduation but no college attendance.

Exposure to college - going peers, higher teacher expectations, and small high schools may help boost attendance.

In a series of reports, researchers at AIR examined whether and how opportunities for deeper learning change high school graduation and college attendance rates for students.