Sentences with phrase «of graduation rates for black students»

The study lists the top and bottom performing institutions in terms of graduation rates for black students, and offers comparisons between colleges serving similar student populations.

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Since mayoral control of the schools was authorized in 2002, ushering in an era of reform, graduation rates have spiked 40 percent overall, with a higher rate of growth for black and Hispanic students.

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.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

To our knowledge, there is no compelling explanation for the overall growth in the 2000s or for the especially large increases in the graduation rates of black and Hispanic students.

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 gradeFor 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 gradefor black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

And, for a half century, nearly one - third of the nation's high - school students have failed to graduate with their class each year, while graduation rates for black and Hispanic students are even lower.

The graduation rate for male Black students in the Rochester City Schools for 2015 was 44 percent, of whom just 3 percent had Regents diplomas, as compared to the 8 percent statewide average for the group.

For instance, the high school graduation rate is at a record high, and the test scores of Black and Hispanic students have outpaced those of white students on long - term measures of reading and math achievement.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

North Carolina Central University has a graduation rate of 48 percent for black students, compared with 26 percent at Alabama State University even though the schools enroll similar students in terms of SAT scores and financial need.

A report from the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center spotlights the pervasive disparities between graduation rates for Black male student - athletes, student - athletes in general and Black undergraduate men overall.

Although the increase is attributed to improved graduation rates for specific groups of students that have traditionally struggled to earn a diploma — including a 15 percentage point gain for Hispanic students and a 9 percentage point gain for black students over the past decade — gaps still remain when comparing these students to their white and Asian peers.

To compare, North Carolina's statewide cohort graduation rate is 77.9 percent, dropping to 71.5 percent for black students and 68.8 for Hispanic children — all levels that has been decried as unacceptable by state leaders of all political stripes.

For Hispanic students, who make up 38 percent of the population, the graduation rate rose from 50.1 percent to 75.1 percent, while the rate for black students went from 54.6 percent to 76.3 perceFor Hispanic students, who make up 38 percent of the population, the graduation rate rose from 50.1 percent to 75.1 percent, while the rate for black students went from 54.6 percent to 76.3 percefor black students went from 54.6 percent to 76.3 percent.

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.