Sentences with phrase «students graduated on time in»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

«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 ongoing tuition increases raise the average debt load of students in this country, and they make it more difficult for students to graduate on time.

At about the same time, Brown and two collaborators — Jordan Anaya and Tim van der Zee, a graduate student at Leiden University in the Netherlands — were working on a preprint that they posted in PeerJ titled «Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.»

The ensuing 2 - hour discussion on Michael's Ph.D. left a deep impression on him scientifically and because of the generosity shown by Brenner in spending so much time with an unknown graduate student on a Saturday afternoon.

Daniel Schrag gets visitors all the time — graduate students in despair over their dissertations, fellow faculty members dropping by to chat about the Cretaceous sulfur cycle or some equally abstruse topic, or visiting scientists collaborating with him on one of the scores of scholarly papers he has churned out in a career that has earned him a professorship in Harvard's department of earth and planetary sciences and a MacArthur genius grant.

In two studies published today in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Fraley and graduate student Marie Heffernan examined the timing and effects of divorce on both parental and romantic relationships, as well as differences in how divorce affects relationships with mothers versus fatherIn two studies published today in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Fraley and graduate student Marie Heffernan examined the timing and effects of divorce on both parental and romantic relationships, as well as differences in how divorce affects relationships with mothers versus fatherin Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Fraley and graduate student Marie Heffernan examined the timing and effects of divorce on both parental and romantic relationships, as well as differences in how divorce affects relationships with mothers versus fatherin how divorce affects relationships with mothers versus fathers.

Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.

[citation needed] Many graduate students feel that teaching takes time that would better be spent on research, and many point out that there is a vicious circle in the academic labor economy.

«For example, in certain cancers, genes may be switched on at the wrong times, eventually leading to the formation of tumors,» said Brandon Razooky, a Gladstone and UCSF graduate student and the paper's other lead author.

«The galaxy we have observed, EGS8p7, which is unusually luminous, may be powered by a population of unusually hot stars, and it may have special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who worked on the project, said, in the statement.

Princeton University's fall break offers students a week away from the classroom, and Woodrow Wilson School graduate students enrolled in a policy workshop use the time to travel the globe researching real - world policy and observing practical application of the lessons they've learned on campus.

Tübingen, Deutschland About Blog The Neuromag is a science - focused magazine organized by graduate students in Tübingen, Germany who spend their limited free time outside of the lab working on this challenging project.

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More than 1.2 million students either dropped out of high school or did not graduate on time in 2004, which could cost the nation more than $ 325 billion in lost wages, taxes, and productivity over their lifetimes if they do not complete high school, concludes a report.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

More than 100 Shawnee students — all of them juniors and seniors — had been enrolled in classes with no connection to the credits they needed to stay on course to graduate on time.

In 2011, just six out of ten students from the school district graduated high school on time.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

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

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparityIn 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparityin 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparityin the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

In response to a New York Times piece on educators in the media, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education reflect on who they think of when recalling popular educators in television or filIn response to a New York Times piece on educators in the media, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education reflect on who they think of when recalling popular educators in television or filin the media, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education reflect on who they think of when recalling popular educators in television or filin television or film.

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

Natasha Patterson School Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credentials.

Federal and state incentives at both the institutional and student level for higher on - time graduation rates are needed, as is longitudinal data that would allow institutional graduation rates to include part - time students and those who graduate from institutions other than the one in which they initially enrolled.

In 2005 06, 11.1 percent of DPS students dropped out each year, and in 2006 07 less than 39 percent graduated on timIn 2005 06, 11.1 percent of DPS students dropped out each year, and in 2006 07 less than 39 percent graduated on timin 2006 07 less than 39 percent graduated 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.

American students in fourth grade are among the leaders on math assessments worldwide, but by the time students graduate from high school, they are nearly last among 41 nations, according to the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Sharp Rise in Occupational Therapy Cases at New York's Schools New York Times, 2/17/15 «Thomas Hehir, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former director of the United States Education Department's Office of Special Education Programs, said that while occupational therapy is indeed a vital service for many children, there may be students on the rolls who do not really need it.»

If this program increases a student's likelihood of attending college, elevates the quality of college attended, and reduces the time it takes to graduate from college, the costs of the program on a per - student basis would be far less than the average increase in lifetime earnings.

Graduates starting work now on average earnings will never have the opportunity of a final salary pension scheme (unless they work in the public sector), will have to save for many years for their first property deposit whilst at the same time paying an additional tax of 9 % of everything they earn in excess of # 21,000 in a 30 - year project to repay their student financing.

«In Texas, for example, of every 100 students who enrolled in a public college, 79 started at a community college, and only two of them earned a two - year degree on time; even after four years, only seven of them graduateIn Texas, for example, of every 100 students who enrolled in a public college, 79 started at a community college, and only two of them earned a two - year degree on time; even after four years, only seven of them graduatein a public college, 79 started at a community college, and only two of them earned a two - year degree on time; even after four years, only seven of them graduated.