Sentences with phrase «raising graduation rates»

The Community Guidebook compiles current research and outlines proven solutions and best practices including school and community interventions, for raising graduation rates.

This sixth annual update on America's high school dropout challenge shows that these gains have been made possible by raising graduation rates for students who have traditionally struggled to earn a high school diploma, and focuses on the student subgroups and geographic areas that both contribute to this progress and are key to driving toward the 90 percent goal.

I have seen high - performing schools and districts that are closing achievement gaps, raising graduation rates and shipping off to college kids who never thought it possible.

ESSA legislation puts additional pressure on schools and districts to be accountable for raising graduation rates for students across subpopulations.

The last two presidents and their secretaries of education have put great emphasis on raising graduation rates.

«Leaders at all levels and from both parties are focused on raising graduation rates,» said John Gomperts, president and CEO of America's Promise Alliance and a leader of the GradNation campaign.

This report details state - set goals for graduation rates under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, showing how improvement targets are often so low that they undercut the aim of significantly raising graduation rates.

Early education addresses schools» biggest challenges, from improving 3rd grade reading levels to raising graduation rates.

«I am very proud of the work we are doing — not only in raising our graduation rates, but in preparing our graduates to enter college or the workforce,» said Superintendent Michelle King in a statement.

This practice began most recently by Stephen Adamowski as his way of fraudulently and artificially raising graduation rates in Hartford.

This sixth annual update on America's high school dropout challenge shows that these gains have been made possible by raising graduation rates for students who have traditionally struggled to earn a high school diploma, and focuses on the student subgroups and geographic areas that both contribute to this progress and are key to driving toward the 90 percent goal.

Under her successor, Kaya Henderson (2010 - 2016), raising graduation rates became the Holy Grail, and we now know what transpired: hundreds of seniors — one third of the graduating class — were given diplomas even though they had been skipping school regularly or had otherwise not followed the rules.

So far, they've also been successful at raising graduation rates.

And these were the schools that would prove so successful: raising graduation rates of previously underperforming students by some 10 percentage points.

He raised graduation rates for African - American students by 13.9 percentage points, and for Hispanic students by 15.4 percentage points, significantly faster than the overall growth rates in California as a whole.

Carranza also previously served as the Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District, where he raised graduation rates to historic highs.

How can urban schools finally raise graduation rates and send more kids to college?

Having a diverse teacher workforce may be the most attainable method districts can take to raise graduation rates and general success within the district.

And during his eight years as deputy superintendent and then superintendent for the San Francisco Unified School District, Carranza raised graduation rates for African - American students by 13.9 percentage points and for Hispanic students by 15.4 percentage points — faster than the overall growth rates in California as a whole.

By implementing these changes together, they hoped to eliminate dropout factories, improve educational options available to students who had been historically assigned to failing schools by virtue of where they lived, and raise graduation rates.

In the Capital Region, East Greenbush is just one example of a school district that has been able to raise its graduation rates after implementing credit recovery.

In its seven years of existence, SJHA has raised its graduation rate from 83 percent in its first year to last year's 99 percent graduation rate, with a 98 percent A through G matriculation rate with a C or better.

The administration hopes the program will improve student achievement, boost the performance of minority students, who lag their white peers, and raise graduation rates.

Rochester School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas is hoping that three high - performing educators will help the city school district raise graduation rates.

Race to the Top is intended to improve student achievement, boost the performance of minority students and raise graduation rates.

A Discussion with School Boards: Raising the Graduation Rate, High School Improvement and Policy Decisions is a series of five PowerPoint presentations developed by VDOE and the University of Virginia available for superintendents to present to their school boards to address the topic of graduation and to prompt discussion of policy issues that may affect graduation rates.

Building a Grad Nation 2016 Data Brief & State Progress Reports This Data Brief highlights state high school graduation rate trends and the progress being made to raise graduation rates for key student subgroups.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

Now the nation turns to the goal of raising the graduation rate to 90 percent by the Class of 2020.

-LSB-...] D.C. Opportunity Scholarships also raised graduation rates, Jay Greene adds.

Shining the Spotlight Jeff Menzer with Douglas Archbald A Delaware high school raises its graduation rate by focusing on a neglected issue.

The EdCan Network to research how Mount Boucherie Secondary School's Academy of Indigenous Studies continues to significantly raise graduation rates.

For example, once the board decided to raise the graduation rate, it «passed a budget — the biggest budget in years — designed to help us to get to that 90 - percent goal,» he says.

How a dropout factory raised its graduation rate from 53 percent to 75 percent in three years The Hetchinger Report, December 5, 2017 School partnerships at a Tulsa high school combine relationship - building with data analysis to boost graduation rates... read more.

We are extremely proud of many of the results, whether it is supporting teachers to improve their on task engagement by 55 % (or more), or supporting the leaders at East Tech in Cleveland to raise their graduation rate from 46 % to 73 % and scoring in the top 1 % nationally for growth on the NWEA, or working with teachers unions to support their teachers with quality professional development to support new evaluations systems.

Increased use of online credit recovery comes at a time school districts are under pressure by states and the federal government to raise graduation rates, hovering nationally around 70 %, according to the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center.

Schools were put under tremendous pressure to raise graduation rates or face closings.

Let's say a school with primarily Black students raised its graduation rate by 1 percent next year.

Building Bright Futures (BBF), a local non-profit organization, was established by community leaders and philanthropists to improve academic performance, raise graduation rates, increase civic / community responsibility and ensure all students are prepared for postsecondary education.

States had a legislative imperative to raise graduation rates; they knew where to target intervention (early on, and at failing schools); and they knew they would feel it economically if they didn't.

Meredith Kolodner writes about high schools which are successfully decreasing suspensions and expulsions through trauma sensitive practices that address the reasons for a student's behavior in her article, «How Schools Can Lower Suspension Rates and Raise Graduation Rates».

The solution was obvious; teach to the test and find a way to raise graduation rates.

GradNation is now a large and growing movement of dedicated individuals, organizations and communities working together to raise graduation rates and prepare all students for success.

Social Justice Humanitas Academy in Los Angeles has raised its graduation rate from 83 to 93.9 % in the last year and its suspension rate remains at only.2 % of students in the last two years thanks to its model practices around restorative justice, interdisciplinary teaching, relevant curriculum, and relationship building.

When the No Child Left Behind Act was introduced, it challenged schools and districts to raise graduation rates.

Until recently, her administrative career in the Los Angeles Unified School District involved working with local and central support for over 135 schools in the Intensive Support and Innovation Center where schools with the most autonomy and / or highest needs were successful in raising the graduation rate by 20 percent.

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A rigorous multiyear study found that students who attended these schools raised their graduation rates by 9 percentage points.

raised graduation rates by more than 60 %, and had the biggest academic improvement of any large school system in California.

Building a Grad Nation 2016 Data Brief & State Progress Reports This Data Brief highlights state high school graduation rate trends and the progress being made to raise graduation rates for key student subgroups.