Sentences with phrase «school dropout factories»

We know, too, that in high school dropout factories, students of color are often cheated out of getting highly effective teachers.

Nationwide, 700,000 fewer students are attending high school dropout factories — high schools that fail to keep 60 percent of a ninth grade class three years later.

The number of «high school dropout factories,» where less than 60 percent of students graduate, is declining rapidly.

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In 2010, Washington Monthly ranked the school 13th on a list of the 50 four - year colleges with the lowest graduation rates, a «dropout factory.»

States should insist that districts take aggressive action to turn around dropout factories and schools where the vast majority of students are demonstrably not on track for success.

My colleague, Bob Balfanz, coined the term «dropout factories» many years ago to describe high schools, almost always serving high - poverty areas, that produced a high proportion of all dropouts nationwide.

Locke High School was once known as a dropout factory.

After serving up the familiar justifications for high school reform (e.g., social costs, changing demographics, dropout factories), Wise sets forth a threadbare list of the 10 elements of a successful high school (rigorous curricula, skilled teachers, community involvement, and so forth).

Reform started soon after; in the early 2000s, City Schools introduced choice to high school students, closed dropout factories, and founded small, specialized high sSchools introduced choice to high school students, closed dropout factories, and founded small, specialized high schoolsschools.

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 New York City alone, 44 low - performing high schools were closed between 2000 and 2014 as part of efforts by then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to eliminate so - called dropout factories and improve education for students who would typically attend a failing school because they lived nearby.

Nationwide the number of dropout factories — high schools with a graduation rate under 60 percent — declined from more than 2,007 in 2002 to 1,146 in 2013.

But school choice isn't just about families moving their kids out of failure mills and dropout factories.

While Kline's proposal to end the federal School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure School Improvement Program, one of the three key aspects of the Obama administration's school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school reform efforts, makes sense because school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure school turnarounds driven by districts, are a fool's errand, he doesn't offer anything that would address the critical question of what to do with dropout factories and failure mills.

The fact that university schools of education do such a poor job of recruiting aspiring teachers for subject - matter competency — and fail to train them properly once they get into their classrooms — also means that children, especially those attending the nation's dropout factories and failure mills, are poorly prepared to handle the even - more complex work that will come once they get into college and the workforce.

Certainly school turnarounds aren't ever easy, even if the school is removed from the control of failing districts (whose cultures of mediocrity, failure, and dysfunction are the immediate reasons why schools become dropout factories in the first place).

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.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating sincDropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating sincdropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

-- Arne Duncan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education New research reveals more than half of states increased graduation rates and number of «Dropout Factory» high schools declined by 23 % since 2002.

Last year, we reported that the number of «dropout factories» — those high schools that graduate 60 percent or less of their students — had declined from 2,007 in 2002 to 1,746 in 2008.

We are now able to report that from 2008 to 2009 (the most current data available), the number of dropout factory high schools decreased by an additional 112 schools to 1,634, representing an annual rate of progress approximately three times as fast as the previous period.

In October, he pitched a plan to Kline: The federal government could mandate specific circumstances in which states and districts would have to intervene in a school — for example, in high school «dropout factories» where few students graduate.

According to a study by Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters on promoting power, 20 % of all minority students in California attend «dropout factories,» or high schools where there are 40 % or fewer seniors than freshmen four years earlier.»

The consequences go beyond the likely result in dropout factories and mediocre - performing high schools to not be held accountable at all.

A push on the civil rights side that is desperately important to focus on the bottom five percent of schools, focus on dropout factories, focus on achievement gaps.

These are the 2,000 or so high schools that Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan refer to as «dropout factories» — schools that graduate fewer than 60 percent of their students and account for more than half the nation's dropouts.

According to these folks, many of whom I count as friends, everything was fine in our school system for Black, Latino, and poor kids before higher standards were common, data was disaggregated, school choice was provided, and the number of dropout factories decreased.

But there will be plenty of action at the state level, especially when it comes to expanding school choice, overhauling teacher performance management, and forcing school districts to shut down or revamp dropout factories.

In 2015, Lincoln High School, one of the earlier labeled «dropout factories,» graduated 94 percent of its black students and 84 percent of its Hispanic student population.

The South posted the largest declines in the number of dropout factory schools, with Texas, Florida, and Georgia leading the way.

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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.

As we've reported, the rising graduation rate reflects genuine progress, such as closing high schools termed «dropout factories,» but also questionable strategies by states and localities to increase their numbers.

The GradNation campaign, launched in 2010, included the creation of a Civic Marshall Plan, to bring together policymakers, educators, business leaders, community allies, parents and students to address the dropout epidemic by focusing on the dropout factory high schools and their feeder elementary and middle schools.

They researched their neighborhood school, learned that it was a dropout factory and filled out D.C.'s equivalent of an open - enrollment application for a seat in another, most likely white neighborhood.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

Dr. King would have been angered to see that we all too often under - invest in disadvantaged students; that they still have fewer opportunities to take rigorous college - prep courses in high school; that too many black, and brown, and low - income children are still languishing in aging facilities and high schools that are little more than dropout factories.

The fingerprints of NEA and AFT can also be seen in what Movement for Black Lives either ignores or barely touches on: Zip Code Education policies such as zoned schooling and restrictions on intra-district choice that force black families to send their kids to dropout factories that put them on the path to poverty and prison.

According to these folks, many of whom I count as friends, everything was fine in our school system for Black, Latino, and poor kids in the days before higher standards were common, data was disaggregated, school choice was provided, and the number of dropout factories decreased.

Much has changed since 2007 when all five of Tacoma's comprehensive high schools were labeled «dropout factories.»

The biggest market shares were in the fifty largest cities where the «dropout factories» were ripe for school closures.

«We have schools that have been dropout factories in this state forever,» he said.

But what happens when some schools are nothing more than dropout factories and school officials dare not restructure the contracts of the adults employed in them?

At the time, he said, charter schools set out to prove «that you could overcome the high school «dropout factory» and you could take these exact same students, provide them with opportunities and access to academic programming that enabled them to complete high school and get into college.»

School administrators were impressed by Wings» track record in Charleston, helping reverse the tide in area «dropout factories.»

We are now able to report that from 2008 to 2009 (the most current data available), the number of dropout factory high schools decreased by an additional 112 schools to 1,634, representing an annual rate of progress approximately three times as fast as the previous period.

Last year, we reported that the number of «dropout factories» — those high schools that graduate 60 percent or less of their students — had declined from 2,007 in 2002 to 1,746 in 2008.

The South also contributed to this accelerated pace, home to five of the top 10 states with the greatest improvements since 2006 but also the top seven states with the greatest decline in «dropout factory» high schools.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating sincDropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating sincdropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.