Sentences with phrase «school dropout rates among»

Included: Programs designed to reduce the high school dropout rate among Native Americans.

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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).

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.

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

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.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

Like Chloe, many students have no choice but to work long hours to pay for school, which prevents them from fully engaging in their studies and probably contributes to the high dropout rate among low - income students.

For the past 16 years, the Puente program has strived to boost the academic achievement of underserved Latino high school students, who have the highest dropout rate and lowest college attendance among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

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In Michigan, for instance, the new chief state school officer recently replaced the test - focused accountability system with a new grading system that relies on a broader set of measures of school quality, including family involvement, the quality of professional development, attendance, and dropout rates, among others.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

Supporters think charter schools could have helped reduce the high school dropout rate, which hovers at 30 percent and at almost 50 percent among minority students.

Dropout rates of 30 percent in inner city schools no longer seem to shock.And we have allowed this downward definition to take place among our most vulnerable citizens — our poor.

In fact, the study estimates that instruction from one black teacher in elementary school cuts high school dropout rates by 39 percent among black boys from low - income backgrounds.

The task force, chaired by Joel Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, cites mediocre U.S. showings on international assessments; high dropout rates, particularly among black and Hispanic students; poor civics performance; limited study of foreign languages; and lack of college preparedness as evidence that the nation's security is at risk.

An estimated 30 percent of U.S. high school students drop out or fail to graduate from high school; the dropout rate among black students is closer to 50 percent (America's Promise Alliance, 2008).

Americans are aware of public education's many failures — the elevated high - school dropout rates, the need for remedial work among entering college students.

According to data from the 2013 - 2014 school year, SFUSD's black students are among the lowest performers on standardized tests and have one of the highest dropout rates.

Clemson, S.C. (October 10, 2016)-- The National Dropout Prevention Center / Network (NDPC / N) and the Moriah Group, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), announce the release of an issue brief examining trends and findings related to improving high school graduation rates among males of color.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education decided to offer Check & Connect as an option for its schools with especially high dropout rates among students with and without disabilities.

Still, though, teenage pregnancy remains an important public health issue: the US has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among Western industrialized nations (CDC), and pregnancy is the leading cause of high school dropout among girls (Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007).

This program emerged as a timely response to alarmingly high dropout rates among Indigenous learners in this school district, which was ahead of the curve in incorporating Indigenous content into the classroom long before the release of the BC Ministry of Education's 2016 - 2017 revised curricula, which mandates this in every school.

Interestingly, the dropout rate is highest among seniors, with 5.1 % leaving school in 2010.

In one study of 1,140 tenth graders, the dropout rate among athletes was 1 % while it climbed to 11 % for those who didn't play a high school sport.

To support these goals, Ms. Butler is in favor of including comprehensive sex education in schools to empower students with the information they need to avoid sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies — the latter of which will help reduce dropout rates among teenage girls.

We have high rates of school dropout, teen pregnancy, and violence among youth — and equally alarming low levels of preparedness for the workplace among young adults.