Sentences with phrase «on graduation rates»

It will not have an impact on graduation rates as long as students complete the program in 3 or 4 years.

Residents that live in wealthy school districts have among the best schools in the nation based on graduation rates, test scores and independent ratings of academic success.

Minimum - competency exams had no significant effect on the graduation rates of students with A or B / B - averages.

But if policymakers care about concepts like student growth or college - going, they can't rely on graduation rates alone to measure them.

Now we're above the state average on graduation rate, but, we're still in trouble because our test scores aren't high enough.

As a result of focused attention on graduation rates, there are people working hard on state initiatives across the nation.

The delays have been many, largely blamed by the administration on new data being collected on graduation rates.

Two related reports, in conjunction with the district's superintendent, were recently released, one focused on teachers and human capital, the other on graduation rates and college readiness.

A school may just be bad across - the - board, bad on graduation rates and bad on college - going rates.

The current discussion on graduation rates shows that we need to know more about alternative schools.

One of his preferred solutions is to improve transparency on graduation rates and ensuing employment success.

When it comes to student achievement, there have been small gains when compared to other interventions, as well as varied impacts on graduation rates.

There was also a postsecondary distinction for 24 school districts based on graduation rates and college and career readiness factors.

Improving attendance will have a positive effect on graduation rates.

This imbalance has led to both educators and policymakers increasing their attention on graduation rates.

That said, it is reasonable to conclude that the phase - out process did not have a negative impact on the graduation rates of students enrolled in the schools during the process — and may even have improved them.

This will be especially important because one of the great successes of No Child was that its focus on graduation rates as an indicator of school and district performance led researchers such as Jay P. Greene, Robert Balfanz, and Christopher Swanson (now of Editorial Projects in Education, the parent of Education Week) to expose how states were artificially inflating how many children were actually leaving high school with a diploma and hiding the nation's dropout crisis.

[10] Of the 11 peer group cities, Buffalo, Denver, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia had large enough Latino student populations to report on graduation rates for Latino students.

Jay Greene's work on graduation rates prompted a commitment by the governors to report these data in a consistent fashion.

He points to three critical milestones that together would constitute a radical change: «thousands of really good schools, dozens of districts that have dramatically improved student outcomes, and three to four states that have moved the needle on graduation rates and college attendance.»

Ravitch did not grasp that the result was based on an intention - to - treat analysis and, if anything, that type of analysis under - states the positive effect of choice on graduation rates.

San Diego Unified wrote that a new report on its graduation rate proved «allegations a local news outlet raised about the district's graduation rate... are false.»

In short, reformers are back to where they started a decade ago, when No Child's emphasis on graduation rates as one of the two main indicators of state, district, and school performance in improving student achievement led to a flurry of research and reports revealing how inflated graduation rates hid the extent of the nation's education crisis.

Governor Tomblin attributed progress on graduation rates in West Virginia to truancy diversion programs and referenced a program in Putnam County that has seen the county's graduation rate «increase from 78 percent to 90 percent since 2010.»

Syracuse high schools showed the largest gains on graduation rates of the five biggest school districts in the state, according to data released by the State Education Department today.

DCPS teachers are not evaluated on graduation rates, but principals can base a small portion of their teacher ratings on the number of students passing courses, and a few have.

To pay companies like K12 more or less depending on how their students perform on state tests or depending on their 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).

Which is apt to put even more ill - considered pressure on graduation rates or else throw states back to SAT and ACT results even when those are useless for students who don't take the tests.

In order to assess the impact of a closure decision on graduation rates, we first predicted rates for the phase - out cohort if their school had not been slated for closure, based on their characteristics and the prior trend in performance at their school.

A large body of literature shows that some teachers are better than others, and that teacher quality can have meaningful effects on student success — not just on test scores, but also on graduation rates and even job success.

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 Data,...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said he's concerned that the conversation about debt - free college, proposed most notably by Bernie Sanders, hasn't focused enough on graduation rates.

States must identify low - graduation - rate high schools using the four - year adjusted cohort rate; the statute is silent on the graduation rate measure that should be used here even though the four - year rate must be used for goal - setting under the law.

As a result, the push for greater accountability in K — 12 education, including rating high schools based partly on graduation rates, might have the effect of suppressing the desire for accountability among online providers.

In 1910, when the data on graduation rates begin, New England was the leading region.

The authors investigated the impact of a manualized high school transition program, the Peer Group Connection (PGC) program, on the graduation rate at a low - income, Mid-Atlantic high school.

In response, many educators have been relying on graduation rate estimates that use federal data to approximate the percent of students who receive a standard diploma in four years.

The Center for Public Education recently reviewed the literature on graduation rates and graduation rate estimates and produced a helpful guide to calculating accurate and reliable rates.

Dr. Jim Merrill, Superintendent for Wake County Public Schools, addressed the impact of community engagement on graduation rates and educational opportunities for students.

This implies that the negative impacts of high school exit exam policies on graduation rates found in other studies are more likely a result of reduced graduation rates of very low - achieving students than of discouragement of marginally low - achieving students.

The impact of Common Core Standards on graduation rates will likely depend on the accountability systems put into place and thus will vary across states.

Leser says it feels as though the state's targets «are always moving,» and worries about talk she hears that ratings will be calculated differently next year — especially when the school's focus on graduation rates over standardized test scores, she says, puts Washington at a disadvantage: