Sentences with phrase «university graduation gap»

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Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

And given the fact that most of the nearly 14,000 knowledge - and technology - based organizations have their roots at the university, the strategy of creating local competence centers appears to be a promising way to bridge gaps and to facilitate the transition into job life after graduation.

The 2006 Child Well - Being Index, released in March by the Foundation for Child Development in cooperation with Duke University and the Brookings Institution, suggests a general lack of progress for K - 12 students, evidenced by flat scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, persistent achievement gaps, and falling high school graduation rates.

Expert Offers Ideas on How to Improve U.S. Education Ventura County Star, December 10, 2011 «The decline in graduation rates in the United States comes not because the American education system has lost ground, but because the U.S. has stagnated, while other countries have surged ahead, according to Ronald F. Ferguson... a Harvard University professor and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative.»

«You may get an award letter from a state school with low graduation rates and have zero out of pocket costs, but there may be a $ 4,000 gap to attend the University of Illinois, that has a strong graduation rate» Howard said.

More information on the PPI is available from the University's report, What Does Promoting Power Tell Us About the Graduation Gap?

More than a quarter of colleges and universities have black - white graduation gaps higher than 20 percentage points, but the data also show that improvement is possible, Nichols said.

For example, Georgia State University has drawn national attention for eliminating graduation gaps by race, poverty and first - generation college - going status.

According to an American Association of University Women study, the pay gap between men and women starts at college graduation even when the course of study is the same.