Sentences with phrase «higher college graduation rates»

The center's researchers found that students who had enrolled in AP courses earned higher GPAs in college and had higher college graduation rates than those who didn't take AP courses.

While Noble does not have the highest college graduation rate among networks adopting this goal, they do have a groundbreaking strategy and an extensive dataset used to analyze and solve the problem thanks to their longevity in the sector.

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Meanwhile, more colleges are facing embarrassing government and media scrutiny over their students» low graduation rates and high debt loads.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

Yet, college graduation rates lag, 70 percent of all Hispanic infants today are born to mothers with a high school degree or less, and Hispanics are over-represented among the poor in America.

Your 1987 college football preview dismissed Virginia with one sentence: «Virginia is justifiably proud of having the country's highest player graduation rate (89 %), but on the gridiron the Wahoos will again fail to make the grade.»

... Students who do well on AP exams tend to do better in college and have higher graduation rates, but it is unclear whether this is a direct result of the AP program.

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.

The duo also touted other hikes in overall city school metrics, including higher graduation rates and improved — but still mediocre — college - readiness rates.

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

Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed the fact that high school graduation rates ticked up two percentage points, but this data point obscures the fact that college readiness in NYC high schools lags far behind graduation rates.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after hiGraduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after higraduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high college or a career after high school.

At 11:30 a.m., Farina joins de Blasio for a roundtable with students and a press conference on the city's increased graduation and college readiness rates at the High School for Arts and Business, 105 - 25 Horace Harding Expwy.

The city is also unveiling a $ 20 million initiative to fund college preparation and visits for middle and high school students, which will be in place by 2018, in order to increase graduation rates.

Some early targets are obvious: Despite all of former Chancellor Joel Klein's best efforts, city middle schools remain an academic black hole; our high schools have a higher graduation rate, but too few graduates are ready for the academic rigors of college.

New York State Senate Democratic Policy Group Initiatives Would Help Over 1.3 Million New Yorkers; Make Higher Education More Affordable by Reducing Student Loan Debt, Increasing Savings For Families, Expanding Access to College Credit for High School Students Initiatives to Enhance Readiness and Increase Graduation Rates and Employment Will Help More New Yorkers Achieve College Success

While the statewide high school graduation rate last year was 74 percent, only 35 percent of students who began high school in 2007 were considered ready to do entry - level college work four years later.

Ryan says the option of a CTE diploma would boost graduation rates for students who aren't interested in pursuing a four - year college degree and allow them to enter the workforce right out of high school.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

The whole country is focusing on high school graduation rates and getting kids to college.

Differences between low - and high - income children in reading and math achievement are much larger now than they were several decades ago, as are differences in college graduation rates.

Measures of school performance based on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high - school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level data that are not publicly available.

Students attending KIPP schools have higher rates of high - school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion than students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds who attend other types of schools.

Their colleges also have a higher proportion of low - income students, as well as a substantially lower six - year graduation rate.

• Among African Americans, 26 % of those in the control group attended college full - time at some point within three years of expected high school graduation; among those in the treatment group, the voucher offer increased this rate by 7 percentage points, a 25 % increment.

Raising student achievement, boosting high school graduation rates and college completion rates, re-envisioning vocational education to equip our kids for twenty - first - century jobs — all of that matters immensely.

General educational attainment of these students rose: four - and five - year high - school graduation rates increased by 17 percent and college enrollment rates increased by 30 percent.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

College enrollment rates in the first year following high school graduation have also been going up, reaching 70 percent in 2010.

A trove of correlational studies have also demonstrated benefits for high school athletes, including higher grades, increased graduation and college completion rates, and a decrease in various antisocial behaviors.

Few parents focused on high school graduation rates, rigorous courses, and college preparation.

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.

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

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results, American high - school performance has hardly budged over the past three decades.

Better yet, they might start to include college matriculation and graduation rates in their high - school accountability systems.

Since 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested nearly $ 4 billion in grants and scholarships to increase opportunity in the U.S. by improving high school graduation and college readiness rates, and expanding access to college.

First, it is worth considering that charter high schools may raise rates of high school graduation and college enrollment directly, or indirectly through improved academic achievement.

The reforms seem to have moved the average student up by 0.2 to 0.4 standard deviations and boosted rates of high school graduation and college entry.

And while the applicant pools are fairly similar in terms of gender and race, OMSCS applicants come from colleges «with a higher proportion of low - income students... lower graduation rates, and lower SAT scores.»

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

As the United States falls behind many other nations in high school and college graduation rates, the American education system needs a major overhaul, according to Pathways to Prosperity Director William Symonds.

Those programs are responsible, in good part, for the schools high graduation rate and for the percent of students who move on to post-secondary education at a community college or university, added Shaman.

The foundation's goal is ambitious: to improve the national graduation rate to at least 80 percent, from about 65 percent, while increasing the likelihood that all high - school graduates are college - ready.

In «Graduation Rates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduatGraduation Rates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rRates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduatgraduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rrates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rrates at schools with the same graduationgraduation ratesrates.

First, the original study should be extended to examine administrative records on high school graduation and college enrollment rates.

Numerous randomized - controlled studies have demonstrated that students in choice programs exhibit higher academic performance while additional studies have found higher graduation rates, increased college enrollment, and increased civic - mindedness.

Troubled by high percentages of students who are not ready for credit - bearing work when they enter community college — and low graduation rates for students who enter needing remediation — Tennessee is experimenting with a different approach.

I share your enthusiasm for character education, non-cognitive skills, high school graduation rates, and long - term outcomes such as college completion and labor market earnings.

Top - tier colleges provide low - income students with life - changing opportunities, including robust financial aid, strong support systems, and significantly higher graduation rates.