Sentences with phrase «percent were ready for college»

ACT said that of the 1.2 million students throughout the country who took its tests this year, only 22 percent were ready for college - level work in English, mathematics, and science.

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Fifty - three percent of parents who make $ 150,000 or more a year said their college graduate will be ready for financial independence after graduation.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

Only 38 Percent of African American and 42 Percent of Latino Parents Think High School Graduates are Ready for College; 83 Percent and 80 Percent, Respectively, Agree with Need to Grade Schools; Lower - Income Parents are Among the Most Likely to See Measuring School Performance as ImportantNew York — While three...

The Time Warner Cable News / Sienna College poll shows 59 - percent of voters polled are ready to support Republican Fred Akshar, with only 31 percent prepared to vote for Democrat Barbara Fiala.

1) «In New York last year, about 99 percent of the teachers were rated effective while only 38 percent of high school graduates are ready for college or careers.

He wondered, for example, why teachers» scores were often overwhelmingly satisfactory in the same failing schools where less than 40 percent of the students were found to be college ready.

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.

In New York last year, about 99 percent of the teachers were rated effective while only 38 percent of high school graduates are ready for college or careers.

This partnership with University of Chicago is part of a larger citywide strategy to invest in expanding access for youth to learning, mentoring and employment opportunities that will better ensure all of our students graduate 100 percent college ready and 100 percent college bound.»

The top - line finding alone — that just 12 percent of high school graduates do not enroll in college within eight years of graduation — provides additional evidence that schools need to continue to focus on preparing all students to be ready for a college environment, whether or not they go right away (or ever).

A recent report by ACT, the not - for - profit testing organization, found that only 22 percent of U.S. high school students met «college ready» standards in all of their core subjects; these figures are even lower for African - American and Hispanic students.

Only 15 percent of students who took the ACT college entry test, for instance, were meeting the college - ready benchmark in 2015.

This year's results indicate 59 percent of grade eleven students are ready or conditionally ready for college work in English language arts, with 33 percent ready or conditionally ready for college work in mathematics.

For the class of 2006, the difference was quite large — 21 percent of black high school graduates completed college, but just 16 percent left high school at a college - ready level in reading (almost exactly the inverse of the numbers for Hispanic studentFor the class of 2006, the difference was quite large — 21 percent of black high school graduates completed college, but just 16 percent left high school at a college - ready level in reading (almost exactly the inverse of the numbers for Hispanic studentfor Hispanic students).

That is, of course, if it believes that many more low - income students than 11 percent could be — and should be — ready for college after thirteen years in its highly - lauded schools.

Four years after Kentucky adopted the new Common Core benchmarks for what students should know and be able to do in reading and math, about 62 percent of students are considered ready for college or a career when they graduate — up from 38 percent in 2011.

Moreover, while 37.2 percent of high school graduates in New York State ranked as college and career ready, only 5.9 percent of English Learners were prepared for college.

Even the best schools, for example, the one that you talked about yesterday, only 37 percent of its high school graduates are considered college ready when they graduate, and that means they have to take remedial courses and often don't get through college because they're not accumulating credits along the way.

In English Language Arts, more than half of the class of 2016 is ready or conditionally ready for college work, and in math, 29 percent is ready or conditionally ready.

To gain a waiver, states will have to adopt college - and career - ready standards and tie state tests to them, adopt a differentiated accountability system that focuses on 15 percent of their most troubled schools, and craft guidelines for teacher - and principal - evaluation systems that will be based partly on student growth and be used for personnel decisions.

Fewer than one percent of high school students scored high enough on the SAT to be considered ready for college.

Our research shows that when students achieve a 92 percent attendance rate, earn 11 or more credits and pass at least one Regents exam in ninth grade, they are far more likely to graduate on time and be ready for entry into a college or career path.

Eight percent of students were deemed college or career - ready, i.e, meeting CUNY's standards for avoiding remedial classes..

Our grantees and partners are focused on accelerating students» learning so that by the time they graduate, 80 percent will leave high school ready for success in college and beyond.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

Via Joanne Jacobs, we see that while 66 percent of our students do apply to college, only 38 percent are ready for the experience.

Meanwhile, in a troubling portrait, only 26 percent of kids were considered ready for key college classes, in Illinois and the nation, based on ACT's analysis of student scores in English, reading, math and science.

Meanwhile, about 1 in 5 students never graduates from high school; 2 out of 3 who do graduate are not ready for college; among those who go to college, 1 in 4 needs to retake high school classes at their own expense; and 40 percent of college students do not finish within six years, costing parents, students and taxpayers billions.

The governing board for NAEP concludes in a new analysis that only 39 percent of 12th graders are prepared for entry - level college courses in math and just 38 percent are ready in reading.

But state data paints a different picture, one where almost 90 percent of freshman arrive lacking basic skills and almost three - quarters of students log test scores showing they're not ready for college and careers.

Only 9 percent of students in the class of 2017 who came from low - income families, whose parents did not go to college, and who identified as black, Hispanic, American Indian or Pacific Islander are strongly ready for college, according to ACT scores.

«I have no idea why they have made this decision, but I do know for a fact that we need to transform our education system state by state to assure that more than just 25 or 30 percent of our kids are college - or career - ready.»