Sentences with phrase «student economic mobility»

We will support work to develop effective national / federal policies and advocacy that promote student economic mobility and racial equity.

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In an era when a high school diploma is the difference between a career and a lifetime on the dole, New York's high - school reforms have increased the economic mobility of tens of thousands of students.

But for students attending four - year institutions, including students from low - income families, the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility.

Most students will continue to attend public colleges for the foreseeable future, but the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility than it currently does.

[vi] Second, I examine the economic mobility rate of these students, which is the percentage of them that earn in the top 20 percent of the individual income distribution as young adults (a limited but important measure of mobility).

• Private colleges tend to have higher economic mobility rates for low - income students, but they also tend to be somewhat more selective.

• Private colleges serve a similar proportion of low - income students as public colleges, and low - income students have higher economic mobility rates at private colleges (although this may be due to their greater selectivity).

Table 1 shows that the relative economic mobility rates of low - income students vary widely across states.

The trend has been driven both by «the realization that economic mobility is predicated on some postsecondary credential» and «widespread statistics showing low - income students... not succeeding in postsecondary pathways,» says Mandy Savitz - Romer, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass..

In the long run, however, it's better for choice, for kids, for taxpayers, and for the country's economic vitality and social mobility that we continue to insist: No school, public or private, is a good school unless its students are learning what they should.

Without policy change that focuses on closing affordability gaps, the status quo of inequity will continue, denying students opportunities for economic mobility and personal and professional enrichment, and...

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Across America, there is a population of students in school districts that are labeled as the «transient population» because of their family's mobility rate.The mobility of students from school - to - school is primarily connected to affordable housing and access to employment, economic development and transportation.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

Our public colleges and universities are meant to be engines of upward economic mobility, but too often are unable to lift up low - income and first - generation students.

The majority of variability in test scores results from «system - level conditions»; meaning everything affecting a student outside the teacher's control: the child's socio - economic status, parental background, language barriers, medical issues, student mobility, etc..

UNC Charlotte provides many first generation college students a degree and economic mobility.

With 47 percent of its population connected to the military, Killeen Independent School District (KISD) in Texas has the unique challenge of educating students with a diversity of primary languages, a wide range of socio - economic levels and a high mobility rate.

We know the quality of the educational experience that students receive is what paves pathways to opportunity and socio - economic mobility.

However, some institutions, including some non-selective schools, do a good job of providing economic mobility to low - income students.

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