Sentences with phrase «student attendance rate»

In addition, it's an unfortunate consequence of the inflexible, high accountability targets many states set (like a 95 percent student attendance rate even for programs serving chronic truants) that when an alternative school opens its doors to students like Ed and Dario, the school itself risks sanctions.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

I look at our 98 percent student attendance rate — people don't come to school when they don't feel comfortable or feel like it's not relevant.

Although student attendance rates at Browns Plains State High School are heading in the right direction, O'Connor is not complacent.

The 20,914 resulting home visits have led to many positive results, according to the project's Sacramento - area director Lisa Levasseur, including not only better communication, trust and support between families and teachers but also increases in student attendance rates and test scores, and decreases in suspension and expulsion rates.

In the Central Valley and across the country, the Parent Home Visit Project is offering a different model of family engagement that has led to many positive results including better communication between school and home, and improvements in student attendance rates and test scores.

The Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) academic program aims to improve students» performance in reading, writing, and math, reduce dropout rates, achieve high student attendance rates, and increase the number of students who pursue careers in STEAM areas.

Rosenberg, TX «As a direct result, the climate and culture of our schools and our district changed substantially... an increase in student attendance rates and academic test scores for ALL subject areas...»

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Many teaching tools used in classrooms are granting private companies access to personal student data, including attendance rates, grades and disciplinary records.

With competitive rates and the ability to borrow up to the cost of attendance, obtaining a student loan through Navy Federal can help a student go to the college of his or her dreams.

One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

In the endless, exhausting chase to meet standardized testing pressures, graduation rate pressure, and attendance pressures (in which funding is tied to students being in school, not what, how or if they learn), there so much more that is sacrificed than just nutrition.

«Studies show that students who eat breakfast at school also have a better attendance rate and tend to behave better,» said Scott Wolfe Food Service Director, at Southern.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

Research I carried out at college showed that students on EMA had higher attendance rates than those not receiving it.

(Indicators could include graduation rates, student attendance, suspension rates and parent, family and teacher engagement.)

«In November, the nonpartisan Research Alliance for New York City Schools presented findings from a rigorous analysis of school closures under Mayor Bloomberg, showing that graduation rates improved by 15 - points for students who left and attendance and graduation rates improved for those who remained during the transition.

Student outcomes — better attendance, improved graduation rates, improved performance on tests — all demonstrate that mayoral control is working and should be continued.

The region boasts a superior public education system — low student / teacher ratios of 12:1, high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go on to college.

One city school board member is pushing for Rochester's Freedom School model to be duplicated to help improve student attendance, parental engagement and graduation rates.

«We know that students who have strong attendance generally demonstrate better grades and better school performance overall, and certainly higher graduation rates,» Brown said.

Now, after 13 years, failure rates are down, attendance is up, 800 students a year experience the TEAL approach to physics, and Beal has received national recognition for his work (bit.ly / 1eV4L9d).

One study [PDF] documenting schools that made this shift found that 60 % of students were able to get at least eight hours of sleep and that both attendance rates and standardized tests scores went up.

Arising at a time when the disparity of test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students is reaching an unprecedented level, this volume urges that the problem of educational inequality be addressed and that changes be made within the educational system.

Pressure to cut the rates of student absences will ramp up as most states use attendance in some form in new accountability plans.

Decreases in the rate of student tardiness due to oversleeping was also reported, as well as an increase in overall attendance rates for some schools.

A major study of 415,000 school students conducted over five years to 2012, «Student Attendance and Educational Outcomes: Every Day Counts», has linked increasing rates of absenteeism with declining scores in national literacy and numeracy tests.

«In its 2012 report Improving Student Attendance, the Queensland Audit Office found students with attendance rates of 85 per cent or less [due to unexplained reasons] are: four times more likely to be suspended or excluded; 1.5 times more likely to not finish Year 10; and 3.5 times more likely to not obtain an Overall Position (OAttendance, the Queensland Audit Office found students with attendance rates of 85 per cent or less [due to unexplained reasons] are: four times more likely to be suspended or excluded; 1.5 times more likely to not finish Year 10; and 3.5 times more likely to not obtain an Overall Position (Oattendance rates of 85 per cent or less [due to unexplained reasons] are: four times more likely to be suspended or excluded; 1.5 times more likely to not finish Year 10; and 3.5 times more likely to not obtain an Overall Position (OP) 1 - 15.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

The daily attendance rate for the school, which has 1,600 students, is about 90 percent.

In particular, because schools that serve difficult populations are likely to have higher student / teacher turnover, higher remediation rates, and lower attendance, these measures are likely to be biased if the goal of the system is to gauge school performance fairly.

«Closing school for everyone appears to be better for student learning than adding to the challenges posed by American students» already low attendance rates,» Goodman concludes.

Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

Students entered the G&T program in 6th grade, and their progress was measured when they were 7th graders, using data drawn from their Stanford Achievement Test scores and attendance rates.

Since Michigan's scholarship program enhances a student's ability to attend college, one might expect that it would also increase college - attendance rates.

Brian Gill talks with Education Next about why students who attend charter high schools have higher rates of high school graduation and college attendance.

In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of students attending a charter school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting high school, whereas among students who started high school in a traditional public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.

But consider this: In the typical 180 - day school year, an average daily attendance rate of 93 percent means students are missing, on the...

For decades, arts educators and researchers have praised the arts for fostering student participation and raising attendance rates.

The state requires minimum passing rates for each student group on the TAAS test in reading, writing, and math; a 94 % attendance rate; and a maximum dropout rate of 6 %.

In the earlier study, students who toured an art museum expressed significantly stronger interest in future museum attendance and actually returned to the museum at higher rates than did the control group.

These agreements have been a basis for increasing student enrolments in education and in increasing attendance rates, where both the Indigenous community and the school take actions to achieve improvements and monitor their joint impact over time.

Do your students know their own attendance rate?

The Chicago Public Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they needed.

A growing body of literature suggests that outcomes such as test scores, attendance, and suspension rates are affected by the demographic match between teachers and students.

Attendance increases, the quality of student work vastly improves, and failure rates and discipline problems decrease significantly, if not altogether, as students perceive value in what they're being asked to do.

Research shows that when a full - service school works well, student achievement increases, attendance rates go up, suspensions drop, and special education placements decrease (Dryfoos, 1994; Dryfoos & Maguire, 2002).

According to surveys conducted by the Attleboro Public Schools, retention rates — holding students back — in grades 2 - 8 decreased by more than 43 percent, special education referrals dropped by more than 55 percent, and discipline and suspensions — especially in the middle schools — declined significantly, while attendance rates improved for both students and teachers.

The district has a high attendance rate of 96 %, with the majority of students who are absent being out for excused illness.

A review establishes that the higher suspension rates for black students in the district were primarily due to the harsher attendance rules at the schools with majority black enrollment.