Sentences with phrase «of students graduated on time»

Among the states that saw smaller increases were Maryland, where 86.4 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, and Virginia, where 85.3 percent graduated on time.

Five states saw a decline, as did the District of Columbia, where 61.4 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, a dip of nearly one percentage point compared to 2013.

Graduation rates rose in 36 states, with the biggest increases in Delaware (where 87 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, up 6.6 percentage points from 2013); Alabama (where 86.3 percent graduated on time, up 6.3 percent); and Oregon, which has had one of the lowest graduation rates in the nation.

In the spring of 2007, less than 39 percent of students graduated on time, but by the spring of 2015, 65 percent graduated on time.

The rate of students graduating on time in June shot up 9 percentage points from 49 percent in 2012 to 58 percent in 2016.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

Johns Hopkins researchers also found a strong relationship between sixth - grade attendance and the percentage of students graduating on time or within a year of their expected high school graduation.

Most impressive is a new requirement that states intervene in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest and in high schools where fewer than 67 percent of students graduate on time.

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And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

I have had dinner with a graduate student in his rooms who talked about his Ph.D. dissertation on Wallace Stevens until it was time for a replay on television of the Frazier - Mathis fight, on which he had previously bet.

According to the department, 80.2 percent of public school students graduated on time.

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According to a recent report from Complete College America, the vast majority of students attending public colleges do not graduate on time; in fact, the report found that only 19 percent of full - time students earn a bachelor's degree in four years.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

The plan, known as the Excelsior Scholarship program, includes incentives to ensure that more students graduate on time, including requiring that each year, students complete the full - time requirement of 30 credits per year.

The youth at Pathway, a school within East that works with students to help them graduate on time, went to support the Florida students who want a national ban on the sales of assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines and want to close loopholes about sales of firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

Statewide, the rate of students who graduated on time in June crept up 1.3 percentage points last year to 79.4 percent.

Although this measurement was first proposed in the 1960's, it has never been made because only two strongly lensed supernovae have been discovered to date, neither of which were amenable to time delay measurements,» says Danny Goldstein, a UC Berkeley graduate student and lead author on the new Astrophysical Journal paper.

This is achieved for the first time on a chip,» said Semere Tadesse, a graduate student in the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy and the first author of the paper.

«On certain days during peak fire season, air pollution in Delhi is about 20 times higher than the threshold for safe air as defined by the World Health Organization,» said Daniel H. Cusworth, a graduate student at SEAS and first author of the paper.

The new analysis, based on data assembled primarily by graduate student Yan - Jie Feng at Sun Yat - Sen University in Guangzhou, China, focused on the sequences of 95 genes located on chromosomes in the nucleus and how they changed over time.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

Over the past year, I have been pulled over any number of times by graduate students and postdocs asking for information on science policy careers.

Associate professor Patricio Vela and graduate student Miguel Serrano, both from Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, developed software algorithms that allowed detailed analysis of the wave - forms seen on the X-ray movies as a function of time.

Last week, for the second time in 6 months, opposition from several scientists on National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus's influential Advisory Committee to the Director forced him to withdraw a plan to establish a small graduate school on the NIH campus that would enroll 15 students a year for a 5 - year Ph.D. program in disease - oriented, integrative biology.

At the same time, one of his graduate students, Anthony Salvagno, did an open experiment, reporting all of his results on the OpenWetWare site, which hosts wiki - style lab notebooks.

«This is the first time the 3 - D culturing method has been used to predict the effectiveness of different drugs on tumors from individual patients,» said graduate student Alex Walsh, who has played a key role in developing the test.

The Sunday Times league table, for example, ranks universities and departments by student satisfaction, research quality, student qualifications on entry, graduate prospects, grades and completion rates, spending per student and the ratio of staff to students.

The ongoing tuition increases raise the average debt load of students in this country, and they make it more difficult for students to graduate on time.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

The ensuing 2 - hour discussion on Michael's Ph.D. left a deep impression on him scientifically and because of the generosity shown by Brenner in spending so much time with an unknown graduate student on a Saturday afternoon.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

In two studies published today in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Fraley and graduate student Marie Heffernan examined the timing and effects of divorce on both parental and romantic relationships, as well as differences in how divorce affects relationships with mothers versus fathers.

Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.

Annett — a graduate student at the time of the discovery — happened on the finding by chance, when he was dragging a diamond tip over the surface of graphene to test the carbon sheet's anti-friction properties.

«For example, in certain cancers, genes may be switched on at the wrong times, eventually leading to the formation of tumors,» said Brandon Razooky, a Gladstone and UCSF graduate student and the paper's other lead author.

«The galaxy we have observed, EGS8p7, which is unusually luminous, may be powered by a population of unusually hot stars, and it may have special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who worked on the project, said, in the statement.

Princeton University's fall break offers students a week away from the classroom, and Woodrow Wilson School graduate students enrolled in a policy workshop use the time to travel the globe researching real - world policy and observing practical application of the lessons they've learned on campus.

Tübingen, Deutschland About Blog The Neuromag is a science - focused magazine organized by graduate students in Tübingen, Germany who spend their limited free time outside of the lab working on this challenging project.

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Focusing solely on graduates of Harvard Business School and on alumni of a program for gifted minority students called A Better Chance (ABC), the author discovered this time that bourgie blacks, like First Lady Michelle Obama, finally feel pretty darn good about being American.

A Better Alternative to For - Profit College TIME, 9/16/16 «Students often «don't understand the burden they are taking on,» says economist David Deming, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

Nearly 40 percent of students entering high school fail to graduate on time.

More than 1.2 million students either dropped out of high school or did not graduate on time in 2004, which could cost the nation more than $ 325 billion in lost wages, taxes, and productivity over their lifetimes if they do not complete high school, concludes a report.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

More than 100 Shawnee students — all of them juniors and seniors — had been enrolled in classes with no connection to the credits they needed to stay on course to graduate on time.

In 2011, just six out of ten students from the school district graduated high school on time.

But as our experience teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has shown, most students have an easy time writing extended academic papers but struggle with shorter pieces that express their opinions on educational issues.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.