Sentences with phrase «large graduation rate gaps»

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

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The program seeks to address the many disparities in outcomes for black men, including large gaps with white men regarding high - school graduation rates, college enrollment and completion rates, lifetime earnings, longevity, and the likelihood of incarceration.

Gender gaps in educational attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

Furthermore, the K - 12 system itself is partially to blame; there are large racial gaps in high school graduation rates, which means that fewer people of color attend college relative to their white peers.

In addition, the bill requires states to develop a plan to address problems in their «achievement gap schools» — the 5 percent of elementary and middle schools and the 5 percent of high schools in each state with the largest achievement gaps among student subgroups, or the lowest student subgroup performance based on achievement tests and graduation rates.

Large achievement gaps persist in the city's schools: The four - year graduation rate in 2012 for African - American students was 53 percent, compared with 78 percent for both white and Asian students.

That gap was more than twice as large as the racial disparity in national graduation rates, which saw 87.6 percent of white students graduate in four years compared to 74.6 percent of black students.

While graduation rates improved for all student subgroups, large gaps between white students and students statewide of color remain.

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.