Sentences with phrase «percent read rate»

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While the literacy rate in Ethiopia is 50 percent for males and 23 percent for females, 100 percent of people in most high - income countries, such as Canada and Norway, can read.

What Bengen discovered was that the 6 percent withdrawal rate he had read about failed around 20 percent of the time, but 4.5 percent survived for every one of those periods — even those starting just before the onset of the Great Depression.

Back in 1994 a financial planner named Bill Bengen read an article in a popular financial magazine claiming that the «safe withdrawal rate» for a retiree was 6 percent.

With a mail drop of 10,000 pieces, he would be able to read his close rate to within ± 0.33 percent; and with a mail drop of 100,000 pieces, his confidence interval would shrink to ± 0.11 percent.

Prior week's reading was revised to 218,000 from 215,000, erasing what was originally reported as a 45 - year low Unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits was unchanged at 1.3 percent Colorado and Maine had estimated claims last week, according to the Labor Department

While housing starts declined 11.1 percent in May to a 1.04 million annualized rate, that followed a revised 1.17 million pace in April to cap the best back - to - back readings since late 2007, Commerce Department figures showed last week.

Though these monthly data are notoriously jumpy, the out - sized job gains were accompanied by a nice pop in labor force participation rate — up 0.3 percent to... Read more

Read: U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in March; unemployment rate stays at 4.1 percent

Oil companies operating in Mexico's deep waters must use national suppliers for 8 percent of the projects by 2025, the government said on Tuesday, a relatively low rate meant to Continue Reading

However, more recent readings that exclude those spring observations (that is, the six month data and the three month changes) show a rate of inflation above our 2 percent target.

In addition to this overall result, unpublished tables from the CPS / HVS contain a homeownership rate for «all minorities», which also improved, going from 46.7 percent... Read More»

Meanwhile, core inflation, which excludes the more volatile energy and food prices, rose by 1.8 percent, also matching its growth rate in... Read More»

Twenty - three percent of all owners reported job openings they could not fill in the current period (up 2 points), a positive signal for the unemployment rate and the highest reading since January, 2008.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

The 55 % percent win rate — Pers is that after 18 games while Gab has his in only 9 games, thats bad reading on Gabs behalf and could go some way to proving Per might have leadership skills gone unnoticed.

«If you think a 50 percent divorce rate is an acceptable statistic, then I suppose you don't have to read this book.

Though the student bodies in her schools have an overall poverty rate of 77 percent, they regularly register among the highest - scoring schools on standardized math and reading tests.

Lower Inflation Rate Will Impact Counties, Towns & Cities ALBANY (MEDIA RELEASE)- Property tax growth for local governments will be capped at less than one percent for the 2016 fiscal year, according to a report issued Tuesday by... [Read more...]

He says he finds it incredible that more than 95 percent of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

And, while rates of some degenerative conditions, such as heart disease, have decreased since 2000, deaths from Alzheimer's disease have soared by an astonishing 89 percent — causing researchers and scientists to scramble... Read More»

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Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

But as Figures 2a through 3b demonstrate, student passing rates in reading and math for New York City students have remained barely above 50 percent — in fact, have worsened in 8th - grade reading.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

Perform in top half of 4th and 8th grade NAEP scores among states by 2019; have 75 percent of 3rd graders proficient in reading by 2025; average ACT composite score of 21 by 2020; 95 percent graduation rate by 2024 - 25

Annual average improvement target of 2.5 percentage point gains in achievement on state reading and math tests between 2018 and 2025 for all students and student subgroups; plan includes goal of reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2025 for all students and student subgroups

At KIPP, a middle school founded by two former Teach for America members, one recent class entered with passing rates of 35 and 33 percent on state math and reading tests.

The study found that if a school had 25 percent more students performing at a proficient level in math and reading, the school was rated a half grade higher by parents.

And much to the surprise of the local establishment, these folks could actually read a chart showing 80 percent failure rates for African American kids in 3rd and 8th grade math and English.

Researchers long ago identified the reading methods that would reduce the current deplorable rate of reading failure from 30 percent to somewhere well south of 10 percent, if only schools would take that step.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Georgia's fourth - grade reading proficiency rate dropped from close to 100 percent in 2013 to less than 40 percent in 2015 — not because the kids were doing worse, but because the state's measure of how they were doing was getting closer to the truth.

Taking into account the higher rates of student turnover in charter schools reduces the magnitude of the estimated negative effect of charter schools by 29 percent in reading and by 30 percent in math.

Although math is less language - based than reading, the testing rates for English Learners in math are only a few points higher: 72 percent of English Learners were tested in math in 1997 - 98; 86 percent in 2000 - 01.

An even higher rate of the treatment groups, 52 percent, reported having read or watched movies of Hamlet or A Christmas Carol for school that year.

Failure rates in the rest of the schools ranged from 50 percent to 80 percent in 4th - grade reading tests; citywide, the failure rate was 64 percent.

The statewide reading pass rate rose from 77 percent to 87 percent, an increase of 10 percentage points (compared with a 16 percentage point increase in Houston).

In 1994 Houston's pass rates in math and reading were 49 and 66 percent, respectively; the corresponding rates for Texas that year were 61 percent in math and 77 percent in reading.

One study found that remediation rates in Florida fell by nearly half after the implementation of S.B. 1720 (from 38 to 22 percent in math, and from 21 to 10 percent in reading).

This problem is strongly correlated with family income: 64 percent of African American 4th - graders and 60 percent of Hispanic 4th - graders (two groups that experience disproportionate rates of poverty) scored below the basic level in reading in 1998.

More than 41 percent of students in grades 2 - 6 demonstrated proficiency in math, and the proficiency rate for reading was 21 percent.

The teacher dropout rate within the first, five years has ranged from 17 to as high as 50 percent, depending on what study you read.

This year, state officials reported an exclusion rate of 3.6 percent in fourth - grade reading compared with 12.6 percent in 2013; and only 4.7 percent of eighth graders were excluded, down from 9.2 percent in 2013.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the «Nation's Report Card,» «proficiency» rates last year were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both 4th and 8th grade.

Passage rates on the third - grade reading tests at Carlin Springs rose to 81 percent, and students performed far better than those two years ago, when less than half of the third - graders passed.

In math and reading, passage rates climbed five points from last year, to 69 percent and 71 percent respectively.

Supporters can credit the voucher program with improved reading scores and high school graduation rates: 82 percent of students offered a voucher graduated from high school, compared with 70 percent of those who lost the lottery.

This year, 85 percent of students districtwide passed reading tests, up from 81 percent last year, and the passage rate for math rose two points, to 83 percent.

Maryland excluded 66 percent of fourth - graders with disabilities for the reading test, far higher than the national rate of 16 percent.

That debate often overlooks the considerable progress since then: a record - high national high school graduation rate for 2014 - 2015, above 83 percent, and double the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math, compared with 20 years ago.