Sentences with phrase «like graduation rates»

Lastly, look at things like graduation rates, job placement rates and numbers of students going on to higher education.

Under a new state law, the state board will be required to add additional factors, like graduation rates, into the API, reducing the weight of reading and math scores.

At least one other measure of academic improvement, like graduation rates and, for nonnative speakers, proficiency in English, must be included.

The implication here is that when you emphasize a numeric outcome, like graduation rates, and then provide incentives to raise those numbers, you're bound to produce more efforts to game the system and actually lower the quality of education.

The data on test scores and indicators like graduation rates are generally more complicated than the political debate allows and there has been progress and it's too often not acknowledged (and cherry picking of NAEP data is a pandemic in the ed world to make various points)...

That includes things like graduation rates, test results, student / teacher ratios, advanced coursework, post-secondary school enrollment, and disciplinary data.

Things like graduation rates will ultimately matter.

A lot of people act like graduation rates are the gold standard when it comes to measuring school success.

But there are also things like graduation rates, or other targets that your school or district has set.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

I recently had the chance to chat with Kristin about Urban Assembly, what they do, and some of the challenges they've faced on timely questions like graduation rates and school discipline.

Miner says poverty is an aspect of other ills the city faces, like graduation rates crime and homelessness.

Things like graduation rate, advanced courses offered, where students go after high school and student - faculty ratios all contribute to making a school great or not.

Things like graduation rate, advanced courses...

Not exact matches

Mayoral control is typically evident of an elected education board failure and is often proposed in inner cities that, like Syracuse, have low graduation rates and test scores.

Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.

I think you are starting to see concrete results — you're seeing increased results in the graduation rates — I would like to look at that and see how we can strengthen that and make it better.»

That has ripple effects like a high school graduation rates that hovers around only 50 percent.

In deflecting this pitiful performance — the third lowest in Westchester County — the district likes to site the 5 year graduation rate and the 6 year graduation rate.

«Our city had a record homicide rate last year, our schools graduation rates are abysmal, and in an environment like this we can not create jobs,» she said.

To pay companies like K12 more or less depending on how their students perform on state tests or depending on their graduation rates?

Getting admitted to a four - year college is a graduation requirement at YES Prep, which, like KIPP, has been admirably transparent about its college - completion rate, currently at 41 percent within six years.

The big questions didn't seem to matter, even in a district, like mine, where graduation rates hovered around 60 percent and proficiency scores around 50 percent.

What he realized is that most reform efforts have been directed at the symptoms, things like low graduation rates or dismal test scores.

If states add in additional components, like extended graduation rates, other school quality or student success indicators, additional subjects or assessments, they might quickly double the number of cells.

But the thinking goes like this: If you look at schools that «work,» as measured by test scores and graduation rates, they all have involved (overinvolved?)

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.

They don't know, for example, that schools like Stanford will offer full scholarships to students from a household income below $ 125,000 and that schools like Amherst have the highest graduation rates for low - income and minority students in the country.

But if policymakers care about concepts like student growth or college - going, they can't rely on graduation rates alone to measure them.

Like much of the research on graduation rates conducted during the past decade, Education Week's work has drawn its raw data from the Common Core of Data,...

«[We] came out quite convinced,» report co-author Jeannie Oakes said by phone, «that not only community schools as a whole, but [their] components all made a positive difference in things like student achievement, attendance, behavior and graduation rates.»

They did not respond to questions about whether transfers to Sunshine and other alternative charters have inflated the graduation rates of traditional schools like Olympia.

The financial difficulties faced by students from low - income families in making it to graduation are well documented, but recently, less tangible factors — like sense of belonging — have also been shown to impact college completion rates.

Like students in many urban schools, BPS students have lower test scores, lower high school graduation rates, and are less likely to go to college than students from nearby suburban districts.

There was — and will continue to be — much to argue about, including test scores, graduation rates, and class sizes (see Diane Ravitch and / or Sol Stern at «related posts» below), but there is no doubt that Klein and Bloomberg have introduced some much needed common sense, business management practices, accountability, and, yes, a laser - like focus on student achievement, to a system that had become unmanageable and unproductive.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) takes a more comprehensive approach to assessing school quality than the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), moving beyond NCLB's focus on annual test performance to also consider factors like student academic growth, graduation rates, and rates of proficiency for English language learners.

In a district like mine, with high poverty and minority representation in the schools and terrible academic outcomes, it is an unfortunate given among those middle class people who have succeeded in school (or think they have) that the only reason that the district has such lousy test scores and graduation rates is «the parents.»

-RRB- While LaGuardia reports a 97 % graduation rate and an 89 % college readiness rate (although only 84 % college enrollment, which makes sense as some kids are going to want to go professional straight away), other schools, like Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, have only a 79 % college readiness rate (which is still higher than NYC's average of 50 %).

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

In many charters, incredible growth, success, and graduation rates can be overshadowed by a Board hand - wringing over demographics when a charter doesn't look exactly like a highly segregated district school.

If that be the case, then why have we seen no effort from Abele to fight for the Community Schools model, to use it to transform MPS like it has transformed public schools in Cincinnati, OH, where the graduation rate has gone from 59 percent to 82 percent since its conversion to Community Schools?

What if Malloy brags about Connecticut's High School graduation rates, which, due to the machinations of reformers like Steven Adamowski, Christina Kishimoto, Paul Vallas, and most charter school operators, are totally inaccurate?

A growing body of research connects skills like responsible decision - making and recognizing and responding to emotions with greater engagement in the classroom and improved academic outcomes such as higher graduation rates.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

According to Politico Pro, Murray and Scott agree with certain provisions, like the «requirement that states come up with concrete evaluations or scores for schools,» but want to see changes like «including the timeline for states to get their new accountability systems up and running, transportation for students in foster care, calculating graduation rates, n - sizes, resource equity and more.»

Graduation rates are still important, but if you're trying to make a judgement call about your current school or one you're interested in, try to get other information like how many kids are actually reaching the standards in reading, math, and science, and which groups of kids are making progress or falling further behind.

Since it was first passed in 2011, lawmakers have made annual changes to the school grading law, which requires public schools to receive a letter grade based on metrics like test scores and graduation rates.

In comparing the rate to other high schools, like nearby Wayne Valley, which posted a 93 percent graduation rate, the PVHS rate was relatively similar, according to data provided by the NJDOE.

In places like Cambridge, Massachusetts, which uses choice to achieve economic diversity in its schools, graduation rates for low - income, Black and Hispanic students are as much as 20 percentage points higher than for comparable groups in nearby Boston.