Sentences with phrase «strong graduation outcomes»

She observed that if the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) 4 year graduation accountability indicator was applied to the schools participants had visited, they would be designated as failing schools; whereas, these schools have strong graduation outcomes for their students who, however, come to these schools after already being in high school for more than one or two years and failing or disconnecting in their first high school.

Not exact matches

Mission's school - wide outcomes include: (1) Utilizing student work to drive instruction, inform teaching practices, and support student achievement at the highest level; (2) Emphasizing Post-Secondary Success at all grade levels to ensure that students are academically prepared, eligible, and have a deep awareness of all post-secondary options upon graduation from high school; (3) School - wide family engagement to create meaningful partnerships, build strong relationships, and deepen avenues of communication with all families in order to provde the highest levels of support to its students.

Yet a number of the ways in which many (admittedly privileged) independent schools achieve their impressive learning outcomes - such as high standardized - test scores, strong graduation rates, and distinguished college admissions - are actually well within reach of public schools.

We also find consistently strong evidence that students with disabilities who spend more time in general education classrooms experience better outcomes — fewer absences, higher academic performance, higher rates of grade progression and on - time graduation, and higher rates of college attendance and employment — than students with disabilities who are similar in other observable ways but spend less time in general education classrooms.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

For example, states should include indicators that have a strong correlation with particular outcomes — including proficiency or graduation rates — but including too many of these can be redundant.

«Our membership provides quality programs with strong academics, exceptional on - time graduation rates, and enviable job placement outcomes all with the best interest of their students in mind,» said Gurnett.

Those improved outcomes include graduation rates which have gone up in Connecticut for the seventh year in a row, aided along the way by strong charter schools.

GreatSchools argues that what is needed to make a strong rating system is a greater data transparency: «Of particular interest is information on student outcomes, such as student test scores, high school graduation rates, course completion rates, etc..»

Research in WCSD finds a similarly strong link between students» ratings of their social and emotional competencies and academic and behavioral outcomes, including their level of risk for being off - track for graduation.