Sentences with phrase «of graduation rate data»

This brief keeps pace with the release of graduation rate data by the National Center for Education Statistics and lays a foundation for the more comprehensive annual Building a Grad Nation report that will be published in spring 2016.

This brief keeps pace with the release of graduation rate data by the National Center for Education Statistics and lays a foundation for the more comprehensive annual Building a Grad Nation report that will be published in spring 2016.

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«What this year's data really shows is that the de Blasio administration is simply lowering standards to boost graduation rates,» said Jeremiah Kittredge of Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter group.

She required campuses to provide uniform data for comparisons of campuses, focused on outcomes such as graduation rates and expanded online offerings.

Just 25 percent of high schools in Mayor de Blasio's cash - guzzling Renewal program are hitting their graduation - rate benchmarks, city data show.

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

A new analysis from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds that the graduation rate for America's public schools stands just shy of 75 percent for the class of 2010, the most recent year for which data are available.

Measures of school performance based on carefully constructed comparisons of student achievement growth, and other important outcomes, such as high - school graduation and college enrollment rates, require student - level data that are not publicly available.

Based on those state - reported data, the U.S. Department of Education indicates that the nation's graduation rate stands at 81 percent for the class of 2013.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

While the federal government does not collect data on the graduation rates of students who receive Pell grants, an investigation by the Hechinger Institute suggests that billions of taxpayer dollars are going to students who never earn degrees.

Though they had it in hand, they didn't need data to see the impact of, for example, low graduation rates on the health of their communities.

[5] Using a common definition they could apply for very long time periods, they found that the high school graduation rate peaked in the early seventies and had not increased as of 2004, when the period covered by their data ended.

The registrar's office is responsible for documenting and reporting data on transfer students, undergraduate students, and graduate students with information related to graduation rates, completion rates, and the average number of years for students to complete their programs.

Moreover, it will continue to monitor specific data related to financial aid, degree programs, attrition rates, and completion and graduation rates attributed to the quality of education and the effectiveness of higher education institutions.ConclusionThe U.S. Department of Education and other government agencies support IPEDS data collection to ensure accountability and transparency in higher education.

The report examines graduation - rate data from the seven states with the highest percentage of students who are American Indian and Alaska...

For example, over the last ten years, Georgia State University has used data analytics in conjunction with college advising with the goal of increasing the graduation rate of low - income students.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

For which purpose, let us return to 30,000 feet and suggest that the two essential sets of data for tracking America's progress or lack thereof in revitalizing the high school are objective test scores and graduation rates.

Because NAEP is based on a sample, it would discourage the kinds of test prep, credit recovery, grade changing and rate faking that afflict graduation data — and that often afflict state assessments.

Three years after the National Governors Association announced that all 50 members had agreed to standardize their states» graduation - rate formulas, the group is only marginally closer to its goal of a truly national definition of high school graduation rates, according to NGA data released late last month.

Data related to school and student demographics (for example, attendance, graduation rate, race / ethnicity, class, gender, level of teaching experience, level of teachers» education)

This year, for the first time, Diplomas Count uses the U.S. Department of Education's Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR), as the primary source of data on high school completion.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

A new analysis of high school completion from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center finds that the graduation rate for America's public schools stands at 73.4 percent for the class of 2009, the most recent year for which data are available.

New Tech's internal evaluation data indicates promising evidence that its model has replicated successfully, with an average four - year cohort graduation rate of 86 percent, an average dropout rate of less than 3 percent, and a college enrollment rate of 67 percent immediately following high school graduation (New Tech Network Outcomes, April 2012; New Tech data 2012).

The data is even more startling for college graduation rates: In 2016, just 38 percent of black students graduated from a four - year college or university in six years, compared to 62 percent of white students.

The national high school graduation rate has risen to a new all - time high: 84 percent, the fifth straight year of increases, according to new data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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 Datadata from the Common Core of DataData,...

Data from Orange County Public Schools and from the state of Florida, obtained through records requests, was used to measure dropouts, withdrawals, and graduation rates in Orlando and throughout Florida.

Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and cognitive disabilities, and standardized test scores.

To estimate the effects of states» adoption and implementation of college - and career - readiness standards and aligned assessments on student outcomes, C - SAIL is analyzing National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

This report shows, through graphs and tables, the University of North Carolina's enrollment growth, tuition history, admissions data, and graduation rates.

take into account data on student growth as a significant factor as well as other factors, such as multiple observation - based assessments of performance and ongoing collections of professional practice reflective of student achievement and increased high school graduation rates; and

That's why GreatSchools ratings in a growing number of states and cities includes data about student academic progress over time, high school graduation rates, and college readiness including SAT / ACT performance and participation.

The Maryland Report Card: The Maryland State Department of Education maintains this site which includes state test performance, graduation rates, demographic information and other data for every school and district in Maryland.

However, there is much more work that can be done, and many states have the necessary data to answer important research questions about CTE (including questions about equity and access, effect of participation on high school graduation rates, college enrollment and attainment, and civic and employment outcomes).

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

In other districts that we have researched, including Horry County, Randolph, Spokane, and Spring City, we found that one or more people involved in the blended learning program are closely connected to evaluations, whether via state assessments, NWEA MAP, end - of - course exams, graduation rates, or other data.

In this paper, the authors review some of these challenges, discuss how the challenges have been approached when using cross-sectional data, and describe a method that analyzes longitudinal, student - level data to provide an improved estimate of graduation and dropout rates.

Estimates of high school graduation rates are very sensitive to the choice of data source.

Graduation rates can be calculated in various ways using various sources, including the U.S. Census and related household surveys; administrative data from school systems on the number of enrollees and graduates each year; and (more recently) longitudinal databases that track individual students over time.

Districts would have to collect, submit and publish data on a variety of indicators of success such as graduation and dropout rates, expulsions and suspensions, attendance, and surveys of student and community perceptions of their schools.

Recent data compiled by the program administrator shows a 2015 - 2016 graduation rate of 98 percent.

A third study using a different approach and using data only on Texas schools finds mixed results in the first year of implementation including negative impacts on student achievement in elementary and middle school, and positive effects on high school graduation rates.

Data about the credit - recovery industry are too incomplete, and change of all kinds too omnipresent in K — 12 education, to posit a definite link between the spread of online courses and increased graduation rates nationally.

Preliminary data released on Monday by the Department of Education show that high school graduation rates rose in a majority of states and gaps in graduation rates between white and minority students narrowed in most states.

Little or no data have been collected on the effect of school choice on graduation rates, incarceration rates, the probability that students will end up on welfare, the chances that they will be employed full time - all outcomes that deserve careful scrutiny.

States may use graduation rate data for accountability purposes (especially identification of low - graduation - rate high schools) that lag a year behind other accountability data to account for summer graduates.