Sentences with phrase «students graduate on time»

Now higher - education institutions including the University of Washington, or UW, are working to help their students graduate on time.

But just 65 percent of special education students graduate on time, well below the 83 percent four - year rate for American students overall, according to an investigative article by the Hechinger Report.

Furthermore, the smaller class sizes allow teachers to focus on students that need the most help and ensure all students graduate on time.

Most impressive is a new requirement that states intervene in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest and in high schools where fewer than 67 percent of students graduate on time.

In some big cities, fewer than half of high school students graduate on time.

Our team at AIR works with education leaders at the state, district, and school levels to refine their practices so that students graduate on time and ready to succeed in college and careers.

The legislation also, as Layton reported, «require states to intervene with «evidence - based» programs in schools where student test scores are in the lowest 5 percent, where achievement gaps are greatest, and in high schools where fewer than two - thirds of students graduate on time.»

«Nudges» Are Helping UW Tacoma Students Graduate on Time (Seattle Times) Notes the findings of Zack Mabel, an HGSE doctoral candidate, who found that «nudges» led to a 14 percent decrease in dropouts between the fall and spring semesters and a 6 percent increase in college completion.

The plan, known as the Excelsior Scholarship program, includes incentives to ensure that more students graduate on time, including requiring that each year, students complete the full - time requirement of 30 credits per year.

According to the department, 80.2 percent of public school students graduated on time.

The rate of students graduating on time in June shot up 9 percentage points from 49 percent in 2012 to 58 percent in 2016.

In the spring of 2007, less than 39 percent of students graduated on time, but by the spring of 2015, 65 percent graduated on time.

On average, only one in 10 low - income, first - generation students graduates on time.

Graduation rates rose in 36 states, with the biggest increases in Delaware (where 87 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, up 6.6 percentage points from 2013); Alabama (where 86.3 percent graduated on time, up 6.3 percent); and Oregon, which has had one of the lowest graduation rates in the nation.

Five states saw a decline, as did the District of Columbia, where 61.4 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, a dip of nearly one percentage point compared to 2013.

Among the states that saw smaller increases were Maryland, where 86.4 percent of students graduated on time in 2014, and Virginia, where 85.3 percent graduated on time.

Minority students have been closing gaps with their white peers in recent years, but those gaps remain substantial: In 2013, 86.6 percent of white students graduated on time, compared with 75.2 percent of Hispanic students and 70.7 percent of black students, according to the annual GradNation report.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

Johns Hopkins researchers also found a strong relationship between sixth - grade attendance and the percentage of students graduating on time or within a year of their expected high school graduation.

The small high schools managed to achieve these gains at a lower cost per graduate than the traditional schools, partly because more students graduated on time and did not need a costly fifth year of education.

According to a 2017 report from the Texas Education Agency, just 62 percent of Texas charter school students graduated on time in 2016, compared to more than 90 percent of students from traditional school districts.

Clarification of this system is needed, as is clarification of its purposes, including its purpose: to «increase grade promotion rates leading to students graduating on time.»

These include a 50 percent decrease in the percentage of uninsured children and a substantial increase in the rate of high school students graduating on time.

With 87 percent of high school students graduating on time, 62 percent of children attending preschool, New Jersey is second only to Massachusetts on its education measures, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the nonprofit child and family research organization which produces the Kids Count report with Advocates for Children of New Jersey.

The state remained 2nd in the nation for its students» high performance on academic measures, surpassing national averages for more children attending preschool, more 4th and 8th grade students scoring at or above proficient in reading and math and more high school students graduating on time.

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And a new report finds that while many low - income students fall behind and fail to graduate on time from U.S. colleges, the University of California system supports them significantly better than other schools do.

Those who graduate under higher standards, however, are more likely to make on - time payments and keep up with their bills, and they understand how to manage those obligations better than students who were not exposed to personal finance and economics in school, the data show.

I have had dinner with a graduate student in his rooms who talked about his Ph.D. dissertation on Wallace Stevens until it was time for a replay on television of the Frazier - Mathis fight, on which he had previously bet.

Business News of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: PHD Media PHD GH CEO, Bright Ladzekpo (right) and Jean Quarcoopome PHD Ghana, an affiliate of Omnicom Media Group's PHD Worldwide network of media agencies, is taking its longstanding partnership with Ashesi University a step further its focus on Ashesi's student talent pool through its support for the University's career fairs, student mentorship, summer internship programmes, national service placements and full time employment opportunities for its graduates.

According to a recent report from Complete College America, the vast majority of students attending public colleges do not graduate on time; in fact, the report found that only 19 percent of full - time students earn a bachelor's degree in four years.

Some critics have argued the plan would limit graduates» job prospects, or would be a strain on low - income students who attend school part time because they also work.

Her comments to the editorial board came two weeks after she joined the state's education commissioner, John B. King Jr., on a visit to Automotive High School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where, last year, only 1 percent of the students who graduated on time were ready for college.

The youth at Pathway, a school within East that works with students to help them graduate on time, went to support the Florida students who want a national ban on the sales of assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines and want to close loopholes about sales of firearms at gun shows and on the Internet.

Ms. Malliotakis is unhappy that the state has cut the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) for graduate students and has not voted to reinstate it, yet the Assembly has voted three times on the DREAM Act, which would give tuition assistance to those who were brought to the country illegally as children.

Statewide, the rate of students who graduated on time in June crept up 1.3 percentage points last year to 79.4 percent.

BU's email noted that Marchant «is providing mentorship to a graduate student on the project» and that the university believed «no formal notification to NSF is required at this time.»

Graduate students have similar constraints, in that «they are here to get a degree and we don't want them spending more time working on a company than getting their degree,» Livingstone explains.

Although this measurement was first proposed in the 1960's, it has never been made because only two strongly lensed supernovae have been discovered to date, neither of which were amenable to time delay measurements,» says Danny Goldstein, a UC Berkeley graduate student and lead author on the new Astrophysical Journal paper.

This is achieved for the first time on a chip,» said Semere Tadesse, a graduate student in the University of Minnesota's School of Physics and Astronomy and the first author of the paper.

«On certain days during peak fire season, air pollution in Delhi is about 20 times higher than the threshold for safe air as defined by the World Health Organization,» said Daniel H. Cusworth, a graduate student at SEAS and first author of the paper.

The new analysis, based on data assembled primarily by graduate student Yan - Jie Feng at Sun Yat - Sen University in Guangzhou, China, focused on the sequences of 95 genes located on chromosomes in the nucleus and how they changed over time.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

To create a better approach, Gradinaru, at the time a graduate student, and her colleagues in neuroscientist Karl Deisseroth's lab focused on replacing the tissue's lipid molecules, which make it opaque.

Over the past year, I have been pulled over any number of times by graduate students and postdocs asking for information on science policy careers.

Carry out «funding efforts [that are] sufficiently successful that 2 to 3 graduate students are supported on external funds at any given time.»

Associate professor Patricio Vela and graduate student Miguel Serrano, both from Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, developed software algorithms that allowed detailed analysis of the wave - forms seen on the X-ray movies as a function of time.

Last week, for the second time in 6 months, opposition from several scientists on National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus's influential Advisory Committee to the Director forced him to withdraw a plan to establish a small graduate school on the NIH campus that would enroll 15 students a year for a 5 - year Ph.D. program in disease - oriented, integrative biology.

At the same time, one of his graduate students, Anthony Salvagno, did an open experiment, reporting all of his results on the OpenWetWare site, which hosts wiki - style lab notebooks.

«This is the first time the 3 - D culturing method has been used to predict the effectiveness of different drugs on tumors from individual patients,» said graduate student Alex Walsh, who has played a key role in developing the test.

The Sunday Times league table, for example, ranks universities and departments by student satisfaction, research quality, student qualifications on entry, graduate prospects, grades and completion rates, spending per student and the ratio of staff to students.