Sentences with phrase «school dropout rate in»

Study of economic potential if high school dropout rate in Rochester were to be cut in half.

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His high school was in one of the country's worst school districts with a 40 % dropout rate, he says.

The dropout rates are strikingly lower in Catholic schools than public schools, even in the case of those at special risk of dropping out.

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.»

She said, the current economic hardship, which has led to high unemployment and school dropout rates, has made a large section of the youth vulnerable to the entrapments of some mischievous politicians, who would like to recruit them to engage in violence in the November 7 general elections.

The school dropout rate has been cut in half.

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

Remember, the city has a high - school dropout rate exceeding 30 percent (probably much higher when GED program manipulation and other scams are factored in).

«Participation in school sports offers so many benefits to children and teens, from lower dropout rates to improved health and reduced obesity.

Prior to beginning the study, the teens had high rates of substance use in their lifetime (more than 84 percent), depressive symptoms (more than 32 percent), high school dropout (more than 57 percent) and residential instability (51 percent moved more than twice in a year).

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

The grant will support job readiness and career counseling programs at the Job Resource and Development Center at Martin Luther King High School in Northwest Philadelphia and is intended to help decrease high school dropout School in Northwest Philadelphia and is intended to help decrease high school dropout school dropout rates.

In a longitudinal study of dropout rates, researcher Argun Saatcioglu concluded, «desegregated schools likely played a more effective role in counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.&raquIn a longitudinal study of dropout rates, researcher Argun Saatcioglu concluded, «desegregated schools likely played a more effective role in counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.&raquin counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.»

America's urban public schools are in trouble: Student test scores are low and dropout rates are high.

A recent episode of Freakonomics Radio looks at an effort to reduce violence and dropout rates among young men in the Chicago Public Schools using a very inexpensive intervention: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

Program when, as a program director at an education nonprofit in Mobile, Ala., he mobilized his community — not just those already working in schools — to tackle together a persistent problem: a too - high dropout rate.

The schools these young men would attend are typically in high - poverty urban neighborhoods, have high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.

Sixty - five percent of students in Montana now go to a school with a Graduation Matters initiative, and we are already seeing the results of this statewide focus on graduation — our dropout rates are down.

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

Chronic absenteeism; success in 9th grade courses; successful completion of a broad and challenging high school curriculum (including things like AP and IB course - taking); sustained engagement; science performance; dropout rate

In fact, research has shown that many Native Americans perform poorly in traditional schools; dropout rates average 35 percent nationallIn fact, research has shown that many Native Americans perform poorly in traditional schools; dropout rates average 35 percent nationallin traditional schools; dropout rates average 35 percent nationally.

She's dealt with homelessness, abuse, and ADHD — and attends a school with one of the highest dropout rates in New Hampshire.

What could account for the differences in the estimated effects of SAT performance and the high - school dropout rates?

And it has been commendably principled on the question of whether exit exams increase dropout rates: The 2003 edition of its annual study snidely commented, «Exit exams are certainly not helping to keep students in school.»

Districts with higher - than - predicted high - school dropout rates were, like states with high dropout rates, more likely to have charter schools and a greater share of students enrolled in charters.

To estimate expected student performance, we used a statistical procedure that predicts student achievement (i.e., SAT scores and dropout rates) in the state based on school characteristics and household demographics.

Faced with the highest high school dropout, foreclosure, and unemployment rates in this country, only one out of 10 students in the state of Nevada will earn bachelor's degrees.

Did a university survey find that the dropout rate is lower for students in small schools than for students in large impersonal schools?

If the dropout rate is an additional 2 percentage points, or roughly one standard deviation, higher than expected, a state experiences a 1 - percentage - point increase in charter school enrollment.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout ratIn an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout ratin the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout ratin the dropout rate.

Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.

Without extensive early - intervention efforts focused on the growing numbers of such children, the school chiefs said in a report to be forwarded to U.S. Secretary of Education Lauro F. Cavazos, the nation can not hope to reduce the dropout rate, improve student performance, or effectively compete internationally in the 21st century.

Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that the implementation of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.

In her sixth State of the State address, delivered on Jan. 29, Ms. Granholm called for as many as 100 new small high schools to help stem the dropout rate, starting as early as 2009.

Aimed primarily at reducing the dropout rate and improving student achievement, the Boston Compact represents the most comprehensive and broad - based school - improvement effort in the country, according to Robert B. Schwartz, a special assistant to the president of...

Adding latrines also decreased dropout rates, reducing the fraction of students who dropped out by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.

Here are ten strategies that can help reduce the dropout rate in your school or community.

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.

In Guatemala, students in bilingual schools have lower repetition and dropout rateIn Guatemala, students in bilingual schools have lower repetition and dropout ratein bilingual schools have lower repetition and dropout rates.

In addition, the AFT report cites «serious problems and significant costs» associated with retention, including student alienation from school, serious classroom discipline problems, and a significantly increased school dropout rate.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

In their August 2007 report «The Return on Investment for Improving California's High School Graduation Rate» (PDF), Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin review both evidential and promising research as well as economically beneficial interventions for addressing the dropout crisis.

Alarmed by the high dropout and failure rates for college students who start out in remedial classes, Florida lawmakers voted last year to make such courses, and even the related placement tests, optional for anyone who... earned a [high school] diploma....

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

With the high school dropout rate for Native Americans among the highest in the country, reservation and public school officials are searching for new ways to keep teens in school.

To hide the actual dropout rate, most school districts report as dropouts those who entered the year as seniors but did not remain in school until the end of that year.

In the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rateIn the piece, headlined «Alternative» Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationSchools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduatioDropouts and Game the System, ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell describes how traditional schools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduationschools and districts are pushing kids into low - cost, low - quality alternative programs in order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation ratein order to hide dropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduatiodropouts from the public and boost test scores and graduation rates.

«When we went off the reservation, we did not have these kinds of dropout rates,» said Mitchell, who graduated from Shead High School in nearby Eastport in 1966.

Education initiatives that ranged from boosting teacher salaries to driving down high school dropout rates dominated much of Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's State of the State Address to lawmakers in Nashville last week.