Sentences with phrase «significant number of dropouts»

We have a large home school population, a significant number of private schools, high school graduates who are unprepared to enter the workforce, and a significant number of dropouts.

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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.

Despite these hardships and gaps, U.S. youth have benefitted from significant academic and health improvements over the past seven years, including a 20 percent decrease in the number of kids without health insurance and an 11 percent reduction in the high school dropout rate.

There were no significant differences in the number of dropouts between the marital therapy group than in the individual psychotherapy group, this was also true when only distressed couples were analysed.