Sentences with phrase «points on college enrollment»

Comparing Noble high schools only to other charter schools and adjusting for other differences in students» background produces an estimated Noble effect of 13 percentage points on college enrollment — a large, significant difference.

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But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

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.

• Among students using the voucher to attend a private elementary school (most students attended Catholic schools), the estimated impact on full - time college enrollment was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 %.

The share of students attending non-religious schools (the only group to have no significant effect on college enrollment) has only increased by two percentage points since 2010 (from 17 to 19 percent).

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).

The estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

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).

The Index awards points for students passing high school level courses and extra credit for those achieving additional credit, such as meeting cut scores on state or national exams or earning college credit through dual enrollment.

The overall impact of double - dosing on college enrollment is almost entirely due to its 13 - percentage - point impact on below - average readers (see Figure 3).

To this last point, we should ask ourselves whether it makes sense to align benchmarks on Common Core assessments (potential gatekeepers for high school graduation or college enrollment) with NAEP's Proficient benchmark when fully 50 percent of students judged merely «Basic» by NAEP's metrics go on to obtain a four - year degree (Scott, Ingels, & Owings, 2007).

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.

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.

Students who complete the requirements for an Advanced Studies Diploma with a grade point average of 3.0 or better and successfully complete college - level coursework that will earn the student at least nine transferable college credits in Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), Cambridge, or dual enrollment courses will receive a Governor's seal on the diploma.

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.»