Sentences with phrase «reported graduation rates»

Boston, Denver, Detroit, and Philadelphia reported graduation rates for English Language Learners.

In addition, a school is considered a high school if OSSE reported graduation rates for the school at any point between 2011 - 12 and 2016 - 17.

All schools with reported graduation rates were identified as high schools for this analysis.

And as NPR did an excellent job explaining earlier this month, reported graduation rates can be questionable.

That's just three more states than reported their graduation rates according to that formula in 2006, when the last...

In Indiana, schools must administer the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress assessment and report their graduation rates to the states.

Plans by the Bush administration to set a uniform way for states to calculate and report their graduation rates could make it harder for high schools to avoid accountability measures under the No Child Left Behind Act.

The Washington - based organization's latest progress report finds that only 16 states currently calculate and publicly report a graduation rate consistent with the formula agreed to in 2005 in the NGA's Graduation Counts Compact.

The ACGR, which states use to fulfill accountability requirements under the No Child Left Behind law, has climbed 2 percentage points since 2011, when the Education Department first started requiring states to calculate and report graduation rates using this method.

Take a look at how states are carrying out federal requirements for calculating and reporting graduation rates under the No Child Left Behind Act and determining whether schools have made adequate progress.

Next year, Regents Chancellor Tisch said, the state Education Department will require schools to break out the number of students using credit recovery when they report graduation rates.

The D.C. Public Charter School Board did not report graduation rates for individual schools, but it said that early numbers indicate an overall two - point increase from last year, to 71 percent for all charter high schools.

This regulation builds on ESSA's protections for youth in foster care, including its requirement that states report graduation rates and performance data for this subgroup.

New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut all report graduation rates above the national average.

But the USED study did not report graduation rates based on school records nor did it track individual students as they advanced through the program.

Sixteen states report graduation rates at or above 85 percent, compared to just nine states that reached that benchmark in 2010 — 11, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

Although all 50 states now report graduation rates based upon a uniform formula, states award different types of high school diplomas to students and graduation requirements can vary considerably from state to state.

Of the five states that currently report graduation rates for homeless students, all have found that homeless students have lower graduation rates than those of low income but housed students.

Not exact matches

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

In 1991, at the climax of Washington's undefeated national championship season, a Seattle TV station aired a report on the poor graduation rate of the players under coach Don James, who quit on Sunday after Washington was placed on probation (page 11).

The Chiefs» graduation rate since 1988 is 27 %, and according to a report by Juli Rhoden of Oklahoma City's KTOK radio, over that same period no more than 10 % of the school's black players have earned their diplomas.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after hiGraduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after higraduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

As our report suggests, we need more education funding in high needs districts and a serious investment of state funds in combatting child poverty if we are to improve graduation rates.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

The agenda, five months in the making, includes bills that call for the creation of a task force to assess the city university system's affordability, admissions and graduation rates, a report on the use of long - acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices, sexual assault awareness and prevention training for cab drivers, a street co-naming for the original Ms. Magazine headquarters and expanding the definition of employer under the human rights law to offer protections for domestic workers.

A 2011 report issued by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Status of the Geoscience Workforce, argued that based on graduation rates of geoscience graduate students (approximately 1500 per year) and job - growth numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a U.S. workforce «shortfall» estimated at 30,000 geoscientists by 2018.

Recently, the Washington Post reported a scandal about graduation rates at Ballou High School in Washington, DC, a high - poverty school not known (in the past) for its graduation rates.

The report suggests that learning about civics promotes a positive school culture and may even lead to higher graduation rates.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Forty - two states can now report uniform graduation - rate data.

About that: last week, L.A. School Report noted that Los Angeles's record - setting graduation rate of 75 % benefited from a ton of massaging.

U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government in December showed U.S. students are graduating at record numbers for the fifth year in a row, with improvements for students of different racial and language backgrounds, as well as those in poverty or with disabilities.

Based on those state - reported data, the U.S. Department of Education indicates that the nation's graduation rate stands at 81 percent for the class of 2013.

Source: Graduation rates are calculated by states using the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) method, as reported by the U.S. Department of Education.

This high proportion of overseas students on campus also inflates our graduation rates: if international students are excluded, the report says the ratio of students completing tertiary courses drops by a startling 17 percentage points while the rates for first - time shorter and more vocationally oriented rates fall by only 3 percentage points.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

After rising for more than 100 years, reports Duncan Chaplin in our lead feature «Tassels on the Cheap,» graduation rates started to slip during the 1970s.

Surveyed schools reported a 91 % graduation rate.

But the presence of large numbers of foreign students on campus affects estimated graduation rates, the report says: «The most significant feature of the tertiary education landscape in Australia is the large proportion of international students.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

Hanushek examines the report's two main conclusions: a) that test - based incentive programs «have not increased student achievement enough to bring the United States close to the level of the highest achieving countries;» and b) that high school exit exam programs «decrease the rate of high school graduation without increasing achievement.»

A sharply worded report released June 23 takes states to task for calculating graduation rates in ways that it contends yield artificially low estimates of the nation's dropout problem — and it upbraids federal education officials for letting them do it.

Five indicators of performance are essential for a school report card: achievement, academic growth, achievement gap closure, graduation rates, and postsecondary and career readiness.

«We've got to end this rampant dishonesty about graduation rates,» Kati Haycock, the director of the Education Trust, the Washington - based research and advocacy group that put together the report, said in a statement.

Alabama overstated its rates because of an administrative oversight, and a recent ProPublica report investigated Florida schools «improving» their graduation rates by moving struggling students to the adult education system.

The registrar's office is responsible for documenting and reporting data on transfer students, undergraduate students, and graduate students with information related to graduation rates, completion rates, and the average number of years for students to complete their programs.

Alaska has the highest graduation rate in the country, the Census Bureau report says, while the District of Columbia...

The report showed higher graduation rates at the new schools compared with their much larger predecessors.

The link between dropout rates and crime is also well documented, and the report's data indicates that high school graduation reduces violent crime by 20 percent.

Another report from Civic Enterprises and The Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, published in November 2011, asks how effective early intervention can be to prevent dropouts and build graduation rates.