Sentences with phrase «on the college enrollment rates»

While the impact of vouchers on African American students was large, the impact of a voucher offer on the college enrollment rate of Hispanic students was found to be a statistically insignificant 2 percentage points.

A study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next looked at the impact of receiving a voucher on the college enrollment rates of students in New York City.

Figure 2 also shows that schools with smaller percentages of their students on scholarships have larger positive impacts on college enrollment rates.

Not exact matches

Economist Jeff Denning has shown that a $ 1,000 drop in the price of Texas community colleges increased enrollment rates among students who would not have enrolled otherwise, but the effects on degree completion were far from definitive.

The White House «fact sheet» on America's College Promise lists what states and colleges would have to do: participating colleges would have to «adopt promising and evidence - based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes,» while states would have to coordinate high schools, community colleges, and four - year schools to reduce remediation rates and, to create incentives to improve, «allocate a significant portion of funding based on performance, not enrollment alone.»

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.

Citing low graduation rates and poor scores on basic - skills tests, New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has proposed that community colleges within the City University of New York system end open enrollment and eliminate remedial course offerings.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

This report provides new evidence on how participation in FTC has evolved over this recent period of rapid expansion, and what that means for its likely effects on participating students» college enrollment rates.

This suggests that moving college enrollment rates substantially higher will require a continuing and unrelenting focus on improving foundational skills.

First, the original study should be extended to examine administrative records on high school graduation and college enrollment rates.

Susan Dynarski and her colleagues find that being assigned to a smaller class in the early elementary grades increased college enrollment rates among African Americans by 19 percent (6 percentage points on a base of 31 percent).

If an African American student used the scholarship to attend private school for any amount of time, the estimated impact on college enrollment was 9 percentage points, a 24 percent increase over the college enrollment rate among comparable African American students assigned to the control group (see Figure 1).

Three evaluations of private - school choice programs have followed enough students for sufficiently long to determine their effects on the rates of high - school graduation, college enrollment, or both.

The failure to prepare many young people for higher education is taking a toll on the U.S. rates of college enrollment and completion.

Mr. Klein said in an interview that he was not discouraged by New York City's performance on the 2010 state tests, and that he still felt «awfully good» about improvements for black and Hispanic students, noting their rising graduation rates and college enrollments.

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.

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).

Based on college enrollment and graduation rates, the answer has to be «no.»

The enrollment rate for Asian students was also higher in 2016 (87 percent) than in 2003 (74 percent), when the collection of separate data on Asian students began.5 The immediate college enrollment rate for Black students in 2016 (56 percent) was not measurably different from the rate in 2000.

Our study extends this work to examine the impact of CPS's double - dose algebra policy on such longer - run outcomes as advanced math course work and performance, ACT scores, high - school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

We find positive and substantial longer - run impacts of double - dose algebra on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates, suggesting that the policy had significant benefits that were not easily observable in the first couple of years of its existence.

New studies suggest that school vouchers have minimal impact on college enrollment and even less of an effect on college graduation rates.

Similar clarity and planning was praised in the sections on raising high - school graduation rates and increasing college enrollment.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials often point to the district's increasing graduation rates, climbing ACT scores, growing college enrollment rates and the numbers of high school freshmen projected to be on track to graduate.

The purpose of this program is to provide competitive grants to applicants with a record of improving student achievement and attainment in order to expand the implementation of, and investment in, innovative practices that are demonstrated to have an impact on improving student achievement or student growth, closing achievement gaps, decreasing dropout rates, increasing high school graduation rates, or increasing college enrollment and completion rates.

In order to preserve comparability to the reports that schools and districts receive on their graduates» college access and persistence rates through the Clearinghouse's StudentTracker service, results have not been adjusted to account for a student's enrollment outcome not being captured due to noncoverage by Clearinghouse data.

Researchers looked at the performance of students in the dual enrollment courses as well as the program's influence on the students» grade point average, graduation rates, college choices and college performance.

We are currently working on the independent evaluation of the initiative here at SRI, and it is a model which seems to be positively impacting both student engagement, dropout rates, and longer - term outcomes such as college enrollment: http://www.sri.com/research-development/21st-century-skills

As the national focus on community college grows, a new report released by REL Northwest unveils the developmental education enrollment rates and postsecondary...

Evers said the new accountability system most likely will focus on data the state already has the ability to collect, such as proficiency and growth over time on a new state test being developed, advanced placement enrollment, graduation rates, college entrance exam scores and industry certification for students who don't go on to college.

Consider what he calls the «college preparation gap», defined as the gap between the college enrollment rate, the percentage of high school graduates in the trailing 12 months who enrolled in college, and the percentage who were prepared to be there, based on reading scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Organizations applying for grants will be encouraged to focus on strategies that increase parent and family engagement and student learning time; improve school safety, attendance, and discipline; address students» social, emotional, and health needs; accelerate students» acquisition of reading and mathematics knowledge and skills; and increase graduation and college enrollment rates.

Our goals remain the same: increased rates of proficiency on state and national assessments, decreased achievement gaps, improved teacher effectiveness, increased graduation rates, and higher rates of college enrollment and success.

Based on their analysis, they also found «a voucher offer increased the college - enrollment rate of African American students by 7 percentage points, an increase of 20 percent.

If an African American student used the scholarship to attend private school for any amount of time, the estimated impact on college enrollment was 9 percentage points, a 24 percent increase over the college enrollment rate among comparable African American students assigned to the control group.»

Dr. Backes has published papers on topics including whether affirmative action bans depressed minority college enrollment rates and whether the bans discouraged minority students from applying to college.

(Source: Colorado Department of Higher Education, The Effects of Concurrent Enrollment on the College - Going and Remedial Education Rates of Colorado's High School Students (Denver: Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2014).

These programs are expected to boost the size and quality of Kentucky's workforce since studies show that high school students who participate in dual credit coursework have increased college enrollment and on - time college graduation rates.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been asked to investigate the effect of current school policies on racial and socioeconomic integration and student education outcomes, including proficiency rates, high school graduation and dropout rates, and rates of college enrollment and completion.

Last year, CPS implemented a new school rating system that placed schools into one of five levels (Level 1 - plus, Level 1, Level 2 - plus, Level 2 and Level 3) based on factors including test scores, student gains, attendance and college enrollment.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

For example, the report suggests tracking the performance of all students in the Denver Preschool Program using a common statewide tool like the Results Matter program, giving equal weight to student achievement scores and student growth scores when reporting on student performance, and including information on each DPS high schools» on - time graduation, college enrollment, and remediation rates on their school websites and providing parents with that information.

Access hard - to - find information on enrollment, college - age population and graduation rates, as well as historical and forecast housing trends.