Sentences with phrase «percent fewer graduates»

Employers plan to hire 1.3 percent fewer graduates from the Class of 2018 than they did from the Class of 2017, NACE said.

Not exact matches

Data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System tells us now that fewer than 12 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees are graduating from humanities programs.

The top few percent of Chinese graduates have world - class educations, but many who earn degrees are not well trained and can not find jobs.

Despite spending more per capita on preschool programs than any other state, Massachusetts has 40 percent fewer preschools for children in poor neighborhoods compared to wealthier communities, according to a study released today by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

As Checker and I reported a few weeks ago, the United States as a whole has never gotten more than 40 percent of its high school graduates above the «college - ready» level.

Fewer than 40 percent of our graduates leave school ready for college — not just four - year universities, but community colleges too.

For example, the ACT reports that just 46 percent of high school graduates taking its college entrance exams in 2012 met college - readiness benchmarks in math; fewer than one in three did so in science.

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.»

Under the new proposal, states would also be required to intervene in the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, have school - level interventions in schools in which subgroups of students perform poorly, and intervene in schools in which fewer than two - thirds of students graduate.

Fewer than half of those male Black eighth graders, 97 percent of whom have not been taught to read well, eventually graduate.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

This chart shows that 38 percent or fewer of the 2013 high school graduates from the bottom quarter of low - income high schools with high concentrations of minorities went to college in the fall of 2013.

The fallout: ELL students are more likely to drop out of school, few pass all end - of - course exams and only 8 percent who graduate are considered «college ready.»

The education advocacy group A + Denver has released a report detailing just how few of Colorado's low - income kids go to top - tier colleges — just 3 percent of such graduates.

These are the 2,000 or so high schools that Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan refer to as «dropout factories» — schools that graduate fewer than 60 percent of their students and account for more than half the nation's dropouts.

Compared to the percentage of students who graduate in fewer than 4 years nationally (2.9 percent), that's huge.

Not only are larger percentages of CSF Baltimore scholarship recipients graduating «on time» in four years, many are graduating «early» in fewer than four years (18 percent).

Fewer than half of Baltimore City graduates will enroll in college, and only 10 percent of them will earn a...

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Even fewer graduate from college: Just 1 to 3 percent, according to the United We Dream Network.

A survey by the Association of American Colleges and Universities found that more than 80 percent of midsize or larger employers look for collaboration skills in new hires - but fewer than 40 percent of them considered new graduates prepared to work in teams.

In 2007 — 08, fewer than 10 percent of first - year teachers had graduated from the top two categories of higher education institutions, compared with about 25 percent of first - year teachers who had graduated from the bottom two categories of higher education institutions.

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.

Of the 123 seniors who graduated from Roosevelt on June 12 or are scheduled to graduate in August, just 27 started at the Northwest Washington school at some point during their freshman year; 78 percent of the graduates spent three or fewer years in the school.

This figure is an important landmark on the road to fulfilling one of the GradNation campaign's goals: a 90 percent nationwide rate by the Class of 2020, with no school graduating fewer than 80 percent of its students on time.

He admitted, though, that the situation is more challenging now, when only 55 percent of the people who attend college graduate in six years or fewer and only 25 percent of community college students graduate.

Between 2009 and 2014, enrollments in teacher preparation programs fell by 35 percent and teacher preparation graduates fell by 23 percent, meaning fewer teachers are entering the field.

States must intervene to help the weakest 5 percent of all schools, high schools that graduate fewer than 67 percent of their students on time (the national norm exceeds 80 percent) and schools where a subgroup of students «consistently underperforms.»

For example, in 2013, the Arizona Republic found, «Half of the state's public high schools saw 5 percent or fewer of their graduates from 2006 earn bachelor's degrees.»

Nationally, fewer than 10 percent of students from low - income families graduate with a bachelor's degree within six years.

Only 3,371 students graduated from Renewal schools in 2016, 18 percent fewer than the 4,121 who graduated in 2014 (Zimmerman, 2017) Yet, the city's 31 Renewal high schools» graduation rates have increased 7 percent since 2014 (Zimmerman, 2017).

How will this school, which graduates fewer than 50 percent of its students, turn around?

Roughly one - fifth of graduates» debt (19 percent) was in private loans, which are generally more costly and provide far fewer consumer protections and repayment options than federal student loans, TICAS reports.

Plus, 5 percent fewer students graduate with debt now compared to last year.

The article reports that in reality, about 80 percent of law graduates work at firms with fewer than 100 attorneys and, thus, are making far lower salaries that those in the news.

Only a few lawyers get those gravy - train, six - figure salaries... [D] espite the 90 - percent - plus employment figures touted by most law schools, most graduates will not get jobs as lawyers in law firms...

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

According to the National Association for Law Placement, 53 percent of law school graduates who are 36 years old or older go into private practice or join firms with fewer than 10 attorneys.

According to stayteen.org, less than half of teen mothers graduate from high school and fewer than two percent earn a college degree by age 30.

We had Brian Sinclair, the graduate recruitment manager from EY on a few weeks ago and he talked about how, I think it was a crazy statistic, about 90 percent of the people who did internships got offered a job there and then.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.