Sentences with phrase «low student attendance»

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One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

When they lower the giant segments of the Maryland flag over top of the student section at games it is not done to hide the students from public view, or to separate them (perhaps even segregate or secede them) from the other patrons in attendance.

However, some students at Princeton agreed with the article, and cited professors who had complained about the athletes in their classes for bringing down the average grade and for low attendance to lectures.

The initiative is part of an overall institutional effort to address low - attendance, improve progress for meeting state standards, and feed hungry students.

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 DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

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.

One of two Stuyvesant High School students injured when the attacker rammed his truck into their yellow school bus in Lower Manhattan was back in class the very next day — all to keep his perfect attendance record.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.

o To keep costs low, the system must rely primarily on existing data (such as student achievement, grade retention, attendance, graduation, college going and student log files from educational software providers).

«Closing school for everyone appears to be better for student learning than adding to the challenges posed by American students» already low attendance rates,» Goodman concludes.

A midrange estimate derived from this literature is that about 10 percent of voucher - using students from low - income families in big cities would have attended private schools anyway (the percentage is higher for one - year attendance and lower for more sustained attendance).

Slowly, Ayana and I worked our way through her grades, which included not just coursework, but also attendance and behavior — three indicators that City Year uses to track student performance and lower the dropout risk.

This finding joins other research that indicates the importance of price of attendance for students from lower - income families.

However, based on students» 8th - grade test scores and attendance rates, they enrolled higher concentrations of low - performing and chronically absent students.

Several recent studies have tested low - cost, information - based interventions to improve student attendance.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

• Deming examines Texas's test - based accountability system and show that for students at low - performing schools, it led to increased achievement, college attendance, degree attainment, and income earning.

Only with robust financial aid can HGSE attract the best students, lower the barriers to attendance, and alleviate the burden of debt, which can limit career choices.

Or there may be a third confounding factor that causes both, such as lack of sleep that causes a student both to miss his bus in the morning, hence leading to low attendance, and to struggle to focus for exams, hence leading to low achievement.

The 2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that after taking all grants and scholarships into account, attending one year of community college runs dependent students from low - income families more than $ 8,000 in tuition, fees, and living costs (see the green «Net price of attendance» bars in Figure 2).

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.

Then they were asked to combine and be one staff instead of three separate schools, so morale was very low... and no vision or direction, very low (as a result) attendance by students - it was around the 60 to 70 per cent mark.

The district has a 97 percent attendance rate, and fewer than 1 percent of high school students drop out, a much lower rate than in surrounding districts with similar demographics.

The Commission will examine state and local policies to increase parent and family engagement, including: how the school calendar meets the needs of students and families to optimize engagement such as parent - teacher conferences and half - days; district and school - level policies to address student attendance issues; access to information regarding teacher effectiveness; and parental involvement in school policies such as placement of students in low - performing schools and in the classrooms of ineffective teachers.

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.

This alternative method is predominantly used for students at low - cost colleges to limit their Pell Grant to their relatively low expenses as they can not be awarded a Pell Grant in excesses of the cost of attendance.

In the U.S., student loan limits are too low to cover even tuition at the typical public four - year institution, let alone the non-tuition costs of attendance, and many students default on debts well below the maximum levels.

Brazil introduced an aggressive conditional cash - transfer program (Bolsa Escola) that increased primary and secondary school attendance and reduced dropout rates, while Chile implemented a number of compensatory programs that improved student achievement in the lowest - performing and most - disadvantaged schools.

Curriculum - based exit exams substantially increased the college - attendance rates of students with low GPAs in 8th grade, but had no effect on students with high GPAs.

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.

The list ranged from low attendance rates and curriculum changes, to behavioral problems, and student teacher relations.

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.

«Otto Banks... said this vouchers proposal is more politically feasible than a previous measure which would have eventually allowed vouchers for any student of a low - to middle - income family, regardless of whether the student were within the attendance boundary of a failing school.»

The National Education Association (NEA) explains that students discontinue their school attendance for various reasons, but family circumstances, particularly low socioeconomic status, demonstrate the strongest relationships to attrition.

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.

Franklin's success in dramatically enhancing the learning process in his inner - city (NYC) high school, expanding parental involvement, increasing post-secondary school attendance and significantly lowering the students» dropout rate, has been documented in 25 books, 77 newspaper and magazine articles and five internationally released videos.

Our research - based processes improve the five key indicators of school performance: fewer discipline referrals, improved attendance, higher student achievement, lower dropout rates, and higher teacher satisfaction.

A charter school operated by a hope operator which serves students from one or more persistently low - performing schools; is located in the attendance zone of a persistently low - performing school or within a 5 - mile radius of such school, whichever is greater; and is a Title I eligible school.

When the campaign launched last school year, it offered every low - income student at Oakland High and Coliseum College Preparatory Academy up to $ 16,000 if they met academic and attendance requirements, applied for federal financial aid and demonstrated community service or leadership.

City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.

Low grades, spotty attendance, a school suspension — these are just some of the red flags that tip off principals and counselors when a student needs attention.

For students in California public schools, the bar is much lower — they only need to get to class a fraction of the time to still qualify as having perfect attendance.

Participants discussed a range of factors that impede student success, including gaps between tribally enrolled students and other Native students; high teacher turnover in remote areas; poor attendance and truancy; low family and community involvement; schools» lack of knowledge about AI / AN culture and history; and fragmentation of services among state, tribal, and local agencies.

As a result, lawmakers there have included attendance as one of the educational goals that districts must report on and set goals to improve — especially for low income students, English learners and foster youth.

Attendance rates are very low among post-16 students re-sitting GCSEs, many of whom have struggled with exams, are disengaged and / or low in confidence.

The study found that students who participated in the Ninth Grade Academy outperformed the comparison group in reading and writing test scores as well as G.P.A.; additionally, they held higher attendance records and lower tardy rates and were less likely to be suspended or expelled.

David Edwards is a lifelong student and educator who has supported first - generation low - income students achieve their dreams of college attendance in New York City, Newark, NJ and Oakland, CA.

At Taylor, which serves a prekindergarten through eighth - grade population of mostly low - income African - American students, educators are celebrating victories in improving attendance (it rose to 94.5 percent among poor children last year from 93.6 percent in 2008) and reducing asthma.