Sentences with phrase «of dropping out»

Students who attend middle schools at risk of dropping out of high school As compared to students in K - 8 elementary schools, middle school students also score lower on achievement tests.

If a child does not have two parents, that child is at risk — at risk of poverty and at risk of dropping out of school.

All of these are well - known «risk factors» that are associated with lower test scores as well as with a greater likelihood of dropping out of high school.

It will be some time before we can examine whether retention increased or reduced the probability of dropping out of school later on.

One possibility: an early - warning system that flags students in danger of dropping out.

I've taught them all, from the highest - achieving honors student to the continuation kid on the verge of dropping out of school.

For very low - income black boys, their chance of dropping out fell nearly 40 percent.

But then I sort of dropped out onto the sidelines for about 20 years.

Maybe then we would see more gifted children reach their potential instead of dropping out of school.

For each year that a student was chronically absent, his or her odds of dropping out nearly doubled.

The Early Warning System is designed to support students who are at risk of dropping out with both school - wide strategies and targeted interventions.

If you're thinking of dropping out of the game, pay attention.

For instance, your likelihood of dropping out from science and math is not a function of your intelligence, it's a function of the intelligence of those around you.

The economic consequences of dropping out of high school are severe.

This evaluation confirmed the positive outcomes found in previous studies, especially for students considered at high risk of dropping out when they entered the programs.

For very low - income black boys, the results are even greater — their chance of dropping out fell 39 percent.

One reason for caution: At early grades, the system can show almost 50 percent more students at risk of dropping out as those who ultimately do.

I think it's our job to get the word out there, since there's so many of us dropping out of school every day.

Out - of - school suspensions are on the rise across the country, a troubling statistic when you consider being suspended just once ups a student's chances of dropping out entirely.

While critics could argue the underlying causes of dropping out, the basic issue remains that something needs to be done now.

But if we look at those who've really succeeded in the world, a lot of them dropped out of college or did something everyone else said was stupid.

More than half of them drop out of the application process as a result.

For example, the introduction of minimum - competency exams only increased the probability of dropping out among black males.

She said the experience let her escape poverty and a family history of dropping out of high school.

One possible explanation is that general wage trends do not reflect the expected wages for adolescents on the margin of dropping out of school.

But missing as few as nine days of school nearly doubled a student's risk of dropping out later.

A program that allowed students to make up courses through self - paced computer instruction helped many of those at high risk of dropping out get the credits they needed.

A child's attendance rate in ninth grade is a better indicator of dropping out than test scores.

If solid reading skills aren't formed during a child's early years, the odds of dropping out down the road increase significantly.

My college experience consisted of dropping out twice when I was right out of high school.

He noted in a statement that students missing class not only cost districts as a result of lost state revenue - they also greatly increase their likelihood of dropping out of school.

One young woman he worked with had been sexually abused by a relative, was getting into fights in school and was on the verge of dropping out.

«Right around the state fair and back - to - school time the market sort of drops out, but it's starting to pick up again,» she said.

Next, let's throw in 1,000 developers who take a shot and make an average of.7 apps (because a lot of them drop out)-- That's 700 kindle apps.

They have an increased risk of dropping out of school, and teen mothers are more likely to be single parents — a condition associated with higher rates of poverty.

The charter high school serves about 100 students who are at risk of dropping out of traditional schools.

In addition, Lutz's 2011 study found that resegregation increased the probability of dropping out for blacks living outside of the South.

This relates directly to the common and often highly inappropriate policy of punishing students who are already at risk of dropping out by suspending them from school.

We could've taken a gamble last season and go with a different manager but we stuck with Wenger and now there is a real possibility of dropping out of the top 4.

Ah, the old canard about there being a problem because of a drop out in the number of stations seems to originate from that image produced by Ross McKittrick — which shows a discontinuity in the temperatures that coincides with the scrapping of a number of stations, most of which were apparently in Northerly locations.

[67] With a high rate of drop outs, «anyone that officially finishes a Baja race is a winner.»

The impact of dropping out goes far beyond the size of their paychecks.

The detrimental effects of dropping out of school have been well documented, ranging from an increased rate of unemployment and a greater likelihood of being incarcerated to an increased propensity for health problems.

Immigrants also have high levels of dropping out which are related to their immigration status.

This news was coming from Italy and if true it will surely put a smile back on the faces of Arsenal fans who had to suffer the disappointment of dropping out of the top four of the Premier League and facing Thursday night games in the Europa League rather than our usual high profile Champions League exploits.

«I politely declined and told her we had no intention of dropping out.»

One statistic that reverberates, however, is that 42 percent of them drop out of high school.