Sentences with phrase «proportion of high school students»

According to ACT's The Condition of College & Career Readiness 2015 Report released earlier this week, a growing proportion of high school students are graduating from high school college - ready.

The proportion of high school students completing a solid core curriculum has nearly doubled since 1990, and students are doing better in their classes than their predecessors did.

Not exact matches

When MBA administrators at Laurentian University learned they had the highest proportion of female students of any business school in Canada, they were shocked.

The programs with the highest proportion of women, the highest number of foreign students, the top schools by instructor - student ratio and more.

In fact, about 17 percent of students in Catholic schools in the United States are non-Catholic (more than 300,000 students), and inner - city black Protestants account for a high proportion of that group.

A number of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseschool districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households.

The report's release contributes to passage of state mandates requiring schools with a high proportion of low - income students to serve breakfast.

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need students.

Upper - level high school students, the report says, should take far more science and math classes, and a larger proportion of college graduates should go into teaching.

«School affects girls» chances of being diagnosed with an eating disorder: Higher proportions of female students, university - educated parents linked to more eating disorders.»

Girls attending schools with higher proportions of female students, and high proportions of university - educated parents were more likely to be diagnosed with an eating disorder than girls at schools with lower proportions of female students and fewer university - educated parents.

Every mile on this picturesque pedal tour through Vietnam's rice paddies, villages and tranquil highlands will help to fund a bus for a NSW school with a high proportion of special needs students.

A high - school astronomy student (Elijah Wood) discovers a random comet that's headed directly for Earth, promising destruction of cataclysmic proportions.

The proportion of black students in the majority - black elementary schools has remained consistently high, at 96.7 percent black (as compared with 98.8 percent black in 1985, the first year the district returned to segregated neighborhood elementary schools).

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

Alternatively, job opportunities for African - American teachers may be more extensive in schools with higher proportions of African - American students.

Because test scores will be used to penalize low - scoring schools, they will act as high - stakes tests for teachers and administrators especially in schools serving high proportions of poor and minority students.

The 309 schools included in the study differed from other city schools in the following ways: They had a higher proportion of English Language Learners (ELL), special education, minority students, and students eligible for the Title I free or reduced - price lunch program, as well as lower average math and reading scores.

(Watson, Louise and Ryan, Chris 2010) also found a higher proportion of public school students came from low socio - economic status backgrounds.

Other researchers have found that white students in charter schools transferred from schools that, on average, had a higher proportion of nonwhite students than their new charter school.

Despite serving a substantially greater proportion of students from low - income families and minorities than district schools, a higher percentage of CMU schools (86 percent) made AYP in 2010 - 11 than did public schools statewide (79 percent).

Magnet schools have higher proportions of black and Hispanic students than TPS in eight of the twelve states, and charters have more black and Hispanic students than TPS in six of the ten states where those analyses can be run (again, these are controlling for district fixed effects).

RAND researchers have similarly noted that «schools with higher proportions of minority, low - income, and low - performing students tended to have higher attrition rates.»

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

The proportion of principals in their first year leading a school is roughly 40 percent higher in schools in the bottom quartile of average prior achievement than in schools in the top quartile; the proportion of principals that have been at their current school at least six years is roughly 50 percent higher in schools with higherachieving students.

When given the chance, teachers transfer out of schools with higher proportions of minority and disadvantaged students.

The proportion of white students in that age group with a high school diploma has stayed the same — about 87 percent.

Consistent with these concerns, we find that Texas schools with a high proportion of low - income students are more likely to have first - year principals and less likely to have principals who have been at the school at least six years than those serving a less - disadvantaged population.

Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion of challenging students is associated with lower levels of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».

In order to see students from diverse backgrounds succeed in their science education, LPS works primarily with schools that have a high - proportion of students from low - income families.

It's also part of the National STEM School Education Strategy 2016 - 2026 and comes at a time when Australian student performance in maths is flatlining, a substantial proportion of Australian 15 - year - olds are failing to meet the National Proficient Standard, and Year 12 high - level mathematics participation is declining.

Although set in an affluent area of Preston, a high proportion of Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College students come from the most deprived local areas, with 33 per cent on free school meals.

Research, including 2008 and 2009 studies by Eric Hanushek, John Kain, and me, and a 2000 study by Caroline Hoxby that account for both observed and unobserved factors that could affect outcomes and contaminate the results, suggests that African Americans, particularly higher achievers, do benefit from attending schools with a higher proportion of white students.

Notably, we found that the schools identified for closure served similar proportions of low - income and special - needs students compared to other high schools across the city (Figure 2).

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

Until we find out, such visions should be scaled back to more modest proportions, for instance, a district that devotes a few high - school classrooms to innovation education and monitors the outcomes for different types of students.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

Schools with high proportions of low - income students are more likely to have lost enrollments.

It may be that the rather small proportion of very high performing students have too much homework, but studies by Tom Loveless of Brookings, for example, indicate that most American students still do not spend much time on school work.

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locSchools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locschools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

The researchers found that students in countries with higher proportions of children enrolled in private schools score higher on...

The researchers found that students in countries with higher proportions of children enrolled in private schools score higher on internationally comparable exams.

PDK found that whether a school helps students learn interpersonal skills rates as the most important factor in school quality for the highest proportion of respondents (36 percent), with the next two being access to technology and engineering courses (25 percent) and access to advanced academic courses (14 percent).

Retiring Headmaster, Andrew Grant, says when congratulating the students and teachers: «In a year in which, nationally, the proportion of the highest grades was widely predicted to have dropped, I am delighted to see how well ours, at St Albans School, have held up,» he says.

Schools with large populations, schools exclusively serving middle school grades (e.g., grades six to eight), and schools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - AmeSchools with large populations, schools exclusively serving middle school grades (e.g., grades six to eight), and schools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - Ameschools exclusively serving middle school grades (e.g., grades six to eight), and schools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - Ameschools serving a high proportion of poor or black students are all associated with elevated suspension rates for African - Americans.

As such, Schiess and Rotherham begin their work by asking whether rural high schools graduate a higher proportion of students under less rigorous standards than non-rural high schools.

In contrast, charter schools have a higher proportion of black students (about 70 %) and a lower proportion of Hispanic students (about 20 %).

In Northeastern states like New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, more than half of black students attend schools with more than 90 percent minority students, a proportion that is higher than in any other region, including the South.

Boston's charter schools also serve a high proportion of black students, even relative to the majority nonwhite BPS district.

Two new national reports paint a grim picture of unfair and inequitable funding of public education across states, with schools serving the highest proportion of impoverished students most often on the losing end.