Sentences with phrase «rate than high school graduates»

Dual credit students have a higher college participation rate than high school graduates overall.

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CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

Oddly enough, the rate of women reporting more than 100 partners declines from 4 percent among the high school graduates to one percent among college graduates but increases to 8 percent among postgraduate women.

Not rated yet I was 18 years old when I had my first child and had just graduated High School not more than a week before.

More American high schoolers are graduating than ever, with this year's graduation rate reaching a record 81 percent.

The 15 - year study showed medical school graduates involved in the program not only entered family practice residency training at higher rates than nonparticipants, but nearly half began their medical careers in rural locations.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.

At schools with a student poverty rate of more than 30 percent, students whose parents are involved in parental networks are up to 5 percent less likely to graduate from high school than students whose parents do not have such connections.

March 29, 2010 • Although the unemployment rate for college graduates is less than half that of high school grads, many say finding a job with a college degree is still tough in this economy.

Yet, research shows that students with disabilities graduate from high school at lower rates than their peers and may face particular challenges when moving into adult roles.

Thirty - three percent of the earliest cohorts of KIPP middle - school students were found to have graduated college within six years, four times the average rate of students from underserved communities and slightly higher than the figure (31 percent) for all U.S. students.

We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.

And nationally, the economic impact is clear: A 2011 analysis by the Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that by halving the 2010 national dropout rate, for example (an estimated 1.3 million students that year), «new» graduates would likely earn a collective $ 7.6 billion more in an average year than they would without a high school diploma.

It is substantially larger than differences between the growth rates for children of high - school dropouts and the children of parents with graduate degrees as well as those between blacks and whites, differences that are the focus of considerable concern.

Still other researchers with national credentials report that low - income voucher students in Milwaukee graduate from high schools at higher rates than do public school students.

The study found that deeper learning public high schools graduate students with better test scores and on - time graduation rates nine percent higher than other schools, a win for teachers and students alike.

To repeat: The «college preparation gap» is larger now than in 1992 even though the college preparedness rate has remained relatively flat, due to the fact that the proportion of recent high school graduates enrolling in college rose sharply between 1994 and 2009 — from 61 percent to 70 percent — before easing back down to 66 percent in 2013.

WGU education program graduates have slightly higher rates of certification and employment than those attending comparison schools.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

The program is not associated with improved high school graduation rates or increases in the number of students taking college entrance exams, suggesting that the APIP improves the outcomes of high - achieving students rather than those students who may not have graduated from high school or even applied to college.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

These savings are magnified after high school because graduates earn higher wages, are less likely to need social and economic assistance, and have lower rates of incarceration than non-graduates.

Some 3,738 students won scholarships during the trial period, and the older students among them have graduated from high school at a higher rate than their peers who lost the lottery.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.

Rochester has the country's lowest high school graduation rate for minority boys, graduating less than 9 percent of African American and less than 10 percent of Latino boys.

Using data from the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship program, we find that low - income Florida students who attended private schools using an FTC scholarship enrolled in and graduated from Florida colleges at a higher rate than their public school counterparts.

Students from low - performing public schools who received and used scholarships graduated at a rate 20 percent higher than the control group.

A 2013 study by MDRC found that students attending new small schools in New York graduated at a rate nearly 10 percentage points higher than did citywide peers with comparable backgrounds and learning needs.

More than 60 percent of employers rate high - school graduates» skills in basic English and math as fair or poor; one study estimates the cost to a single state's employers for remedial training at nearly $ 40 million a year.

In his article on the high - school graduation rate («Tassels on the Cheap,» Feature, Fall 2002), Duncan Chaplin implies that the General Educational Development (GED) tests represent a lower academic hurdle than graduating from high school.

More than a third of Washington students who entered public high school as freshmen in the class of 2003 failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002.

More than a third of the Washington state students who entered public high school as freshmen in the class of 2003 failed to graduate on time in four years, a rate unchanged from 2002, a state education official said yesterday.

graduated from high school and both enrolled and persisted in four - year colleges at rates that were four to seven percentage points higher than a carefully matched set of students in Milwaukee Public Schools.

College Enrollment and Success: Similar to their outstanding high school graduation rates, Brooke alumni enroll in and graduate from college more than double or triple the rate of their BPS peers.

While the charter school graduation rate was only slightly higher than that of their host districts, the more impressive data point is the percent of students who did not graduate but are still enrolled and working towards their diploma (Percent Still Enrolled).

Charter schools graduate high school students at higher rates than traditional district schools - 79 % versus 66 % for traditional schools.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

Building a Grad Nation: 2015 Annual Report «More young people are graduating from high school today than ever before — and gaps in graduation rates are closing — even as standards are rising.

Participants in school choice programs graduate from high school at higher rates than their public school peers.

He did not mention that black and Hispanic students still graduate from high school at far lower rates than their white and Asian counterparts — 64.6 percent and 63.5 percent, compared with 80 percent and 83.3 percent.

The CSF Baltimore scholarship recipients were graduating high school at a rate of 97 percent — a much higher rate than their peers in Baltimore public schools (between 40 and 60 percent), and a higher rate than students across Maryland (84 percent on average).

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

They are also graduating students from high school and enrolling them in college at much higher rates than traditional urban public schools.

The CSFB alumni survey found scholarship recipients enrolled in college at a higher rate than either the Baltimore City Public School (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local stSchool (BCPS) ninth graders or the BCPS high school graduates who were tracked in two local stschool graduates who were tracked in two local studies.

The report also finds that more than half the states increased their high school graduation rates, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 23 percent since 2002, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

The dropout rate and graduation rate do not total 100 percent because some students complete high school through means other than a high school diploma (e.g., students with a GED, students with disabilities who have participated in alternative assessment, or students who have transferred into higher education or an applied technology college without graduating high school) and some special education students are retained in high school beyond their senior year.

State plans may use an extended year graduation rate to support students who take longer than four years to graduate from high school; however, state plans should emphasize graduation within four years.

And what of the research suggesting that students in the Milwaukee voucher program graduate at higher rates than those in public schools?

While the Los Angeles Unified School District continues to drive toward higher and higher graduation rates, district data provided to The 74 and LA School Report show that more than half of last year's graduating seniors received grades that made them ineligible for admission into California's public universities.

These findings turn out to be as good or better to what we've seen in urban districts, where Linked Learning students are earning more credits and graduating at higher rates than peers in traditional high school programs.