Sentences with phrase «school dropout rate of»

Duncan opened the meeting by describing a «tremendous urgency to get better educationally,» noting the country's fall from first to 16th place in the world in college graduation rates, the national high school dropout rate of 25 percent, and his belief that the United States has a skills crisis — not a jobs crisis — and must better prepare students for their transition to a career.

Native Americans long have had one of the highest high school dropout rates of any ethnic group in the nation.

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

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

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.»

CIS Wake will use the money to further its mission of reducing Wake County Public School System's dropout rate and preparing students for post-secondary education and careers.

Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Rethinking Character and Intelligence, and Russell Shaw, head of Georgetown Day School, argue that poor high school preparation and a lack of student ownership have contributed to the world's highest college dropoutSchool, argue that poor high school preparation and a lack of student ownership have contributed to the world's highest college dropoutschool preparation and a lack of student ownership have contributed to the world's highest college dropout rate.

Authoritarian schools had the worst rates of dropouts (Pellerin 2004).

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 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.

Many of this country's minority communities are watching their high - school dropout rates rise, which will only increase their reliance on popular science news.

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).

KW: What do you think of today's black kids having a higher high school dropout rates than those of a generation ago?

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.

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.»

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).

The high dropout rate of inner - city schools is indeed a crisis.

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.

Michael FallonSpecial to Education Week Sacramento — California's student - dropout rate appears to be declining despite the establishment of more rigorous high - school - graduation requirements, Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig told a state l

Highlights of the conference include include debates and resolutions about controversial teacher testing, charter schools, and a proposal by AFT president calling for an extra year of high school to help prevent high school - dropout rates from climbing.

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

I find evidence that state funding of universal kindergarten lowered high - school dropout and institutionalization rates among whites, but not among African Americans, and detect no impact of state funding for children of either race on grade retention, public assistance receipt, employment or earnings.

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.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

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.

A higher - or lower - than - expected high - school dropout rate has no clear relationship to the passage or strength of charter legislation, but does, interestingly, have a strong relationship with charter school participation.

We conducted our analysis alternately using absolute student achievement, measured with statewide mean SAT scores for the 1989 — 90 school year and the mean high - school dropout rate calculated from 1990 census data, and with a second measure that represents the deviation of actual achievement from expected student performance.

It may be that SAT scores, as a very public measure of school performance, lead to agitation for charter laws, but that charters themselves are more likely to target students at risk of dropping out, and therefore participation is more closely associated with dropout rates.

Interestingly enough, no study has yet shown better high school test scores, but the Boston studies have shown higher grade point averages and, of course, attendance goes through the roof and dropout rates are decreased.

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 rate.

Nor did the public's evaluation of American schools change much between 2007 and 2009, despite the media drumbeat of negative information about dropout rates and test scores.

The high - school dropout rate hovered at about 50 percent, and just 9 percent of entering 9th graders ever graduated from college.

Given the problems of high dropout rates and low student achievement that many states have already faced with fully - virtual schooling providers, quality concerns over providers of individual online courses should not be ignored.

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.

They will be at HGSE on Thursday, March 28, to discuss how out - of - school learning increases student engagement and reduces dropout rates.

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.

His leadership also led to the district achieving its best - ever dropout and graduation rates, driven largely by attention to all students, a focus on adult performance, the promotion of choice and school autonomy, and intensive efforts to engage parents and the community.

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.

Apparently the town's high school faced serious problems, among the worst a dropout rate of about «10 percent a year.»

That's why districts throughout the country are working to personalize learning by creating small schools or reorganizing large schools into small learning communities, as part of their strategy for reducing the dropout rate.