Sentences with phrase «number of dropouts»

We have a large home school population, a significant number of private schools, high school graduates who are unprepared to enter the workforce, and a significant number of dropouts.

Limitations included the inability to study teen mothers» child care capacity, a notable number of dropouts particularly in the HFA group, most measures were a type of self - report, and the study lacked evaluators blind to the HFA group.

The small studies that chiropractors refer to as evidence have been criticised for having poor scientific design that may have impacted the results, for example there was room for unconscious biases and one study did not record the number of dropouts and reasons for dropping out.

The Ministry of Education and Research has recently initiated some legislative changes that should make life easier for Ph.D. students, giving them a chance to work full - time on their doctoral studies and reducing the number of dropouts.

Side effects were mild and the number of dropouts in the real TMS group was not significantly higher than in the sham group.

To address the problem, the state superintendent announced the establishment of three goals to be met by 1990: that all districts reduce their 1985 - 86 dropout rate by 25 percent; that districts and county offices of education increase by 25 percent the number of dropouts brought back into the public - education system; and that schools strengthen their «holding power» by developing programs or strategies that improve both the climate in which instruction...

Those referrals were not only ineffective in reducing behavior problems, they were counterproductive because they increased the number of dropouts.

After nearly two years of work, the school system has launched a program to identify and reward schools where student achievement has increased and the number of dropouts has decreased.

The report, Dropout Rates in the United States: 1995, which was released in July by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), says the number of dropouts hasn't changed significantly in the last ten years.

We also know that the number of dropout factories — with grad rates below 60 percent — is down to about 1200 nationwide — from nearly 2000 at the start of the century.

The figure below comes from the latest Grad Nation report, and it shows that the number of dropout factories fell by 861 (43 percent) from 2002 to 2013.

In Orange County, the number of dropouts would jump by at least 80 percent.

Nationwide the number of dropout factories — high schools with a graduation rate under 60 percent — declined from more than 2,007 in 2002 to 1,146 in 2013.

The goal is to reduce the number of dropouts in Texas schools, where state officials believe 1.3 percent of students — about 24,000 pupils — in...

We are now able to report that from 2008 to 2009 (the most current data available), the number of dropout factory high schools decreased by an additional 112 schools to 1,634, representing an annual rate of progress approximately three times as fast as the previous period.

Additional proposals which survived House budget negotiations would also exclude a number of dropouts from being counted among withdrawals, including students who relocate, leave for personal, family or medical reasons and, most controversially, leave within the first 30 days after enrolling.

It showed that, of the 10 schools that reported the highest numbers of dropouts, only one was a traditional, comprehensive high school — and the principal of that school said it ranked so high because of a data error.

According to these folks, many of whom I count as friends, everything was fine in our school system for Black, Latino, and poor kids before higher standards were common, data was disaggregated, school choice was provided, and the number of dropout factories decreased.

The South posted the largest declines in the number of dropout factory schools, with Texas, Florida, and Georgia leading the way.

If Texas is to reach its goal of graduating at least 95 percent of its students, then it must change course — from masking the number of dropouts to making each child count, from dropout prevention or recovery to a graduation plan for each student, from dropping out to school holding power, from at - risk students to high school reforms that produce high school graduates.

According to these folks, many of whom I count as friends, everything was fine in our school system for Black, Latino, and poor kids in the days before higher standards were common, data was disaggregated, school choice was provided, and the number of dropout factories decreased.

Establish intervention models at the middle and high school levels to monitor and intervene early to reduce the number of dropouts.

While the number of dropouts is small, their omission from the long - term follow - up study could overstate treatment - group success.

Some initiatives are addressing these challenges to reduce the number of dropouts and eliminate the achievement gap through the immersion of students in a college preparation program where they graduate from high school ready for college as they simultaneously accrue college credit hours and, in some cases, secure an associate's degree.

There were no significant differences in the number of dropouts between the marital therapy group than in the individual psychotherapy group, this was also true when only distressed couples were analysed.

We are now able to report that from 2008 to 2009 (the most current data available), the number of dropout factory high schools decreased by an additional 112 schools to 1,634, representing an annual rate of progress approximately three times as fast as the previous period.