Sentences with phrase «largest graduation rate increase»

This was the largest graduation rate increase out of the state's «Big 5 City School Districts,» which is composed of New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, according to the state education department.

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The Boston no excuses charter study, for example, shows no increase in high school graduation rates and no increase in post-secondary enrollment despite large increases in test scores.

To our knowledge, there is no compelling explanation for the overall growth in the 2000s or for the especially large increases in the graduation rates of black and Hispanic students.

In his first official day on the job, Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy promised swift, substantial and specific increases in graduation rates, attendance and test scores in the nation's second - largest school system.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

This was not without controversy, but research has shown that the program «markedly increased high school graduation rates for large numbers of disadvantaged students of color» as more students earned the rigorous Regents diploma.

The recognition award is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education (USED) effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal of increasing energy independence and economic security.

For the roughly 68,000 children that call Newark home, improvements in key areas of child health and an increase in both preschool enrollment and high school graduation rates point to progress in the state's largest city, according to the Newark Kids Count 2017, released today.

Graduations Up, Dropouts Down in LAUSD, Statewide High school graduation rates for Los Angeles Unified and districts across California increased last year, with Latino students showing larger gains than their white and Asian classmates, the state Department of Education said Tuesday.

This is due in large part to federal school classification requirements, which were specific by design to label and differentiate treatment of schools based on whether they met annual reading and math proficiency targets.2 This often led to narrow or simple pass / fail categorization systems based on schools meeting incrementally increasing state targets for test scores and graduation rates.

At Parkland Magnet High School — the school that once had the lowest graduation rate in Winston - Salem, the graduation rate has increased by 16.2 percent, and the community at large has seen an increase of more than 11 percent in its graduation rate.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Soon after I was approached by a large public university that also wanted to implement a belonging intervention with its incoming freshman class to see if it would help increase retention and, eventually, graduation rates (Study 2).