Sentences with phrase «n't high dropout rates»

The chief problem with U.S. schools apparently isn't high dropout rates or underqualified teachers but standardized testing.

Not exact matches

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

«If schools can not facilitate such development, young people are likely to have increased prejudice and higher dropout rates, with significant implications for the United States» social and economic health.»

This is a quotation he is using as an argument in the same page, he praises the ornish diet, which had a higher drop out rate than the atkins diet (by 1, the dropout rate was similar in all groups, and adherence was lower in atkins than the ornish, but not by a lot).

However, the results can not be generalized to low - carb diets, and the dropout rate was very high.

Program when, as a program director at an education nonprofit in Mobile, Ala., he mobilized his community — not just those already working in schools — to tackle together a persistent problem: a too - high dropout rate.

I find evidence that state funding of universal kindergarten lowered high - school dropout and institutionalization rates among whites, but not among African Americans, and detect no impact of state funding for children of either race on grade retention, public assistance receipt, employment or earnings.

[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates higher levels of college attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have high rates of default even on relatively small debts.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

Given the problems of high dropout rates and low student achievement that many states have already faced with fully - virtual schooling providers, quality concerns over providers of individual online courses should not be ignored.

«When we went off the reservation, we did not have these kinds of dropout rates,» said Mitchell, who graduated from Shead High School in nearby Eastport in 1966.

High school exit exams do not significantly affect dropout rates, according to a study released last week by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

As for the high minority dropout rates — according to Texas figures, about 20 percent of minority students drop out, not 50 percent.

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).

In 1998, 3.9 million young adults were not enrolled in high school and had not completed high school, according to a NCES report, Dropout Rates in the United States: 1998.

Because teacher retention and quality are not the only factors that influence student outcomes, Han also looked at the effects of unionism on an important education attainment benchmark: high school dropout rates.

Arlington Assistant Superintendent Warren Hopkins said the district's high dropout rate isn't acceptable and that graduating on time isn't as important as staying in school.

The Virginia Early Warning System (VEWS) relies on readily available data — housed at the school — to predict which students are at risk for dropping out of high school; target resources at the school - and division - level to support students not on track to graduate while they are still in school and before they drop out; examine patterns and identify school climate issues that may contribute to disproportionate dropout rates.

These children especially have a higher dropout rate with the equivalency in reading level of an elementary school child, and that has more to do with having a grading system that moves children up grade levels without warrant and those students not getting enough attention with giant class sizes.

Welcome to the problem a lot of people in the e-learning industry don't liketo talk about — high dropout rates for online courses.

He said that the critics of MCAS predicted high dropout rates, but the statistics show that the rate of dropping out has not changed since its implementation.

But speaking Spanish does not explain the high dropout rates among Hispanic students.

The dropout rate was 13 percent, and many of those who left school did so because they could not keep up with high school reading demands.

Much research, summarized by the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that high school exit tests do not lead to students better prepared for college or work, but do increase the dropout rates.

«The pattern throughout the United States has been a high dropout rate at the beginning because parents and others find out it may not be exactly the way they thought their education would be,» N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson told Policy Watch.

The dropout rate and graduation rate do not total 100 percent because some students complete high school through means other than a high school diploma (e.g., students with a GED, students with disabilities who have participated in alternative assessment, or students who have transferred into higher education or an applied technology college without graduating high school) and some special education students are retained in high school beyond their senior year.

And incidentally, these results confirm the fact that accountability doesn't drive an increasing dropout rate, as is suggested by some who oppose high stakes accountability.

Clemson, S.C. (April 20, 2016) The National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC / N) is pleased to announce that K12, Inc., a technology - based education company and leading provider of proprietary curriculum and online school programs for students in pre-K through high school, is now sponsoring Solutions to the Dropout Crisis, a television format webcast that delivers practical strategies for graduation rate improvement to educators across the nation.

Clemson, S.C. (October 20, 2017)-- The National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC / N) announces the release of four position papers examining trends and findings regarding improving high school graduation rates.

«National data shows that high school exit tests increase the dropout rate but not do improve outcomes in terms of college attendance or workforce participation.

Duncan opened the meeting by describing a «tremendous urgency to get better educationally,» noting the country's fall from first to 16th place in the world in college graduation rates, the national high school dropout rate of 25 percent, and his belief that the United States has a skills crisis — not a jobs crisis — and must better prepare students for their transition to a career.

In particular, he thinks all candidates should have to answer how they'll increase access to early childhood education (and if they won't, why not), what their goals are for high school graduation and dropout rates, and how they'll get the U.S. to once again be the global leader in percent of college graduates.

At a time when graduation rates are at all - time highs, dropout rates are at historic lows, and test scores across the country are improving, this new direction could not only stop progress but also reverse it.

Current research indicates a high college dropout rate for low - income students can not be fully explained by lower educational achievement in high school.

Although much attention has been paid to the national graduation and dropout rates, those discussions obscure another population: students who obtain their high school diplomas but are not prepared to succeed in postsecondary education or the workforce.

Clemson, S.C. (October 10, 2016)-- The National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC / N) and the Moriah Group, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), announce the release of an issue brief examining trends and findings related to improving high school graduation rates among males of color.

The state longitudinal dropout rate is calculated by determining the total number of students enrolled in Texas public schools in seventh grade and subtracting the total number of those same students receiving a high school diploma five years later, excluding students who will not graduate but are still enrolled in the regular school program that leads to acquiring a high school diploma (such as students who were retained or do not have sufficient credits), divided by the number of pupils in the original seventh grade group and multiplying by 100 to determine the percentage.

The goal of the program shall be to reduce the actual statewide longitudinal dropout rate to not more than 5 percent, such that a minimum of 95 percent of any class of students enrolling in Texas public schools will receive their high school diploma.

High school dropout rates have hovered near 30 percent for the past three decades, with those who do not earn a diploma — who are disproportionately low - income and minority students — more likely to face various social, economic, and health challenges over their lifetimes.

The implications meant not just loss of funding, but also lower test scores and higher dropout rates.

Data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study indicated that high - stakes testing was not associated with improved scores but was associated with higher dropout rates (Jacob, 2001).

Comprehensive national studies have found that graduation tests lead to higher dropout rates while they do not improve learning for those who stay in school.

Even though initiatives such as SA2020 and combined works of San Antonio's school districts have generated good results in addressing the dropout rate, 15 Bexar County ZIP codes have more than 30 % of their 18 to 24 - year - old population who haven't attained a high school diploma.

Rolling out first in the Los Angeles Public Library System in California, this program will hopefully reach a citywide population that has one of the highest dropout rates in the country, with the US Census Bureau reporting that nearly 25 % of the adult population of Los Angeles does not have a high school diploma.

In one study of 1,140 tenth graders, the dropout rate among athletes was 1 % while it climbed to 11 % for those who didn't play a high school sport.

Internal dropout rates, that is, respondents who did not endorse any violence item (n = 51), were significantly higher among women who were 18 — 29 years of age, unmarried and had a low yearly income in comparison to the final sample of analysis.

Single parenthood is not the only, nor even the most important, cause of the higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, or other negative outcomes we see; but it does contribute independently to these problems.

Limitations include attrition bias due to the high dropout rate and bias due to the fact that the assessors who administered the measures were not blinded to treatment conditions.

Limitations include high dropout rate of initial sample and study did not show impact on child abuse and neglect.