Sentences with phrase «to graduate from high school on time»

Forty - three percent of African - American students will not graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

After all, failed classes could mean a lower GPA, trouble getting into college, and perhaps even trouble graduating from high school on time.

Among the new findings are that students enrolled in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP)-- the nation's oldest private school choice program currently in operation — not only graduate from high school on time by seven percentage points more than students enrolled in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), but they are also more likely to enroll in a four - year college and persist in college.

The DOE also found in a study that, of 20 children born in 1983, six did not graduate from high school on time in 2001.

In a recent study, researchers from Penn State and Duke looked at 753 adults who had been evaluated for social competency nearly 20 years earlier while in kindergarten: Scores for sharing, cooperating and helping other children nearly always predicted whether a person graduated from high school on time, earned a college degree, had full - time employment, lived in public housing, received public assistance or had been arrested or held in juvenile detention.

Only 47 percent of America's black males graduate from high school on time, according to a new report from a philanthropic organization...

Data from Serving Our Children, a nonprofit that administers the voucher program, show that 98 percent of voucher recipients graduated from high school on time last year, a far higher rate than the 70 percent of students who graduated in four years from D.C. Public Schools.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

One in six children who are not reading proficiently in third grade don't graduate from high school on time.

Across New York State, only 40 percent of ninth - grade students graduate from high school on time and with the skills they need to succeed in college and the workforce.

These students were also more likely to accumulate significantly more math credits and to graduate from high school on time.

They score higher on the 10th - grade math exam, are more likely to graduate from high school on time, and accumulate more math credits, including in subjects beyond a 10th - grade level.

As a result, students in these schools were more likely to pass the 10th - grade math exam on time, acquire more math credits in high school, and graduate from high school on time.

In the U.S. Department of Education's latest move to refine the implementation of the NCLB law, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said last week she would propose rules that would «ensure that all states use the same formula to calculate how many students graduate from high school on time.»

Nearly 90 percent of struggling first graders are still struggling in fourth grade; three out of four struggling third - grade readers are still struggling in ninth grade; and one in six children who are not reading proficiently in third grade do not graduate from high school on time — a rate four times greater than for proficient readers.

Only approximately two - thirds of incoming ninth graders will graduate from high school on time.

Club members nationwide participate in year - round academic success programs that encourage them to graduate from high school on time and prepared for a post-secondary education and a promising 21st century career.

Early reading success or failure is highly predictive of a child's academic trajectory: one out of six kids who are not reading proficiently by third grade will not graduate from high school on time.

«If we want kids to graduate from high school on time, what are the markers they need to hit in the K — 12 career to do so, and what are the practices that will get them there?»

One in six children who are not reading proficiently in third grade fail to graduate from high school on time, four times the rate for children with proficient third - grade reading skills.

A recent report by the American Institute for Research (AIR) finds that students who attend deeper learning schools were more likely to graduate from high school on time and low - achieving students were more likely to seek postsecondary education.

About 16 % of children who are not reading proficiently by the end of third grade do not graduate from high school on time — a rate four times greater than that for proficient readers.

Montgomery County's initiative comes in the midst of an explosion in the use of longitudinal - data systems to identify students at risk of not graduating from high school on time.

Just 68 out of every 100 9th graders will graduate from high school on time.

One in six children who are not reading proficiently in third grade fail to graduate from high school on time, four times the rate for children with proficient third grade reading skills.

Overall, 22 % of children who have lived in poverty (for at least one year) do not graduate from high school on time, compared to 6 % of those who have never been poor.

In 2000, a scoring error by NCS - Pearson (now Pearson Educational Measurement) led to 8,000 Minnesota students being told they failed a state math test when they did not, in fact, fail it (some of those students weren't able to graduate from high school on time).

• Students of color; low - income students; students with disabilities; and English language learners, or ELLs, are less likely to graduate from high school on time.

Currently, only 56 % of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) graduate from high school on time, and far too many are not prepared for a higher education.

«There are more students enrolled, those students» test score proficiency and growth has improved relative to similar students, and they are substantially more likely to graduate from high school on time.

Based on current trends, 1 out of every 4 students statewide — and as many as half of all students in the state's largest districts — won't be able to graduate from high school on time and prepared for college.

Retired military leaders added their voices in May, calling for state - funded pre-k to help prepare the more than 75 percent of young Mississippi residents who are ineligible to join the military because, among other reasons, they failed to graduate from high school on time.