Sentences with phrase «with higher attendance rates»

A UW - Madison investigation of the program over the last four years shows participation in AVID / TOPS is correlated with higher attendance rates and grade - point averages and other measures of academic success.

Not exact matches

Hispanics have seen some heartening gains over the last few years, with a decline in the poverty rate, an increase in annual income, and college attendance rates at a higher percentage than whites.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

The authors compared job loss rates during middle and high school years with college attendance rates a few years later, at 19 years of age.

Grade - level attendance rates also were higher for the BIC schools compared with non-BIC schools across the school year (95.5 percent vs. 95.3 percent).

For Crystal Brogan, Co-Chair of the conference, «one of the most gratifying aspects of gathering with the ALMA astronomical community is the high rate of attendance by early career researchers from all over the world, demonstrating the tremendous interest in ALMA, and ensuring that the amazing science discoveries enabled by ALMA will be continued by the next generation.»

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

Brian Gill talks with Education Next about why students who attend charter high schools have higher rates of high school graduation and college attendance.

The district has a high attendance rate of 96 %, with the majority of students who are absent being out for excused illness.

A review establishes that the higher suspension rates for black students in the district were primarily due to the harsher attendance rules at the schools with majority black enrollment.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

The district has a 97 percent attendance rate, and fewer than 1 percent of high school students drop out, a much lower rate than in surrounding districts with similar demographics.

In the five years since adopting the SEL - oriented approach, Washoe schools have seen higher rates of attendance and scores on state reading and math tests, and fewer disciplinary infractions and suspensions among students with higher social and emotional skills.

The schools pizza party patrol has motivated improved attendance in a school with the districts highest mobility rate.

The state also has made attendance a priority: In its plan to comply with a new federal education law, Washington will track schools with high rates of chronic absenteeism.

«They ended up attending high schools that were higher - performing, with higher attendance, better test scores, better graduation rates, and did much better than students we compared them to,» he says.

Do you have a school in your district that is beating the odds, recording higher attendance rates than schools with similar student populations?

The results: a school attendance rate significantly higher than similar programs nationally, improved communications with parents, and a remarkable collaboration with school teachers that could prove a model for out - of - school - time programs.

Curriculum - based exit exams substantially increased the college - attendance rates of students with low GPAs in 8th grade, but had no effect on students with high GPAs.

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

This increase narrowed the gap between attendance rate at Manual and the district wide average almost threefold bringing Manual High much closer to being at par with other schools in the district.

A Level 1 rating signifies «high performance, a good school choice with many positive qualities,» recognizing academic growth and attainment from UChicago Charter's diverse student body, as well as the various campuses» strong attendance and high quality student data record keeping.

The result is small charters with high graduation and college attendance rates.

The administration and the House Appropriations Committee also proposed elimination or severe cuts, respectively, to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program.45 Currently funded with more than $ 1 billion, this program provides enrichment opportunities in safe environments to more than 1.6 million students per year, 46 70 percent of whom are students of color.47 Much of this funding supports after - school programs, but 21st CCLC also funds before - school and summer programs.48 Research indicates that participation in 21st CCLC is linked to better attitudes toward school, higher rates of school attendance, fewer suspensions, and better performance in school, among other outcomes.49 In addition, many of these programs provide students with snacks or meals.50

Instead, the two sides agreed to evaluate teachers with such data as raw state test scores, district assessments, high school exit exams and rates of attendance, graduation, suspensions and course completion.

Involvement has been shown to increase grades, leads to more consistent homework completion, improve student behavior at school, increase high school graduation rates, reduce school drop - out rates, increase college attendance, and lower rates of experimentation with tobacco, alcohol, and recreational drugs.

This week's brief includes new research from a February 2018 study that found «that the implementation of DACA significantly improved attendance and graduation rates among Hispanic high school students, with the gap in high school completion between undocumented Hispanic young people and their citizen peers shrinking by 40 percent.

As Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al show, a bunch of charter schools with large achievement test gains, including Boston «no - excuses» schools, Harlem Promise Academy, and KIPP, have produced little or nothing in terms of high school graduation and college - attendance rates.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

To evaluate the academic performance of students in LAUSD Alliance charter schools compared to LAUSD traditional high schools located in the same neighborhoods with similar student demographics, we focus on four variables, each school's rate of attendance, their API (Academic Performance Index) score, the average SAT score per school, and the graduation rate per school.

The Los Angeles pact proposes to do that using a unique mix of individual and schoolwide testing data — including state standardized test scores, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of attendance, graduation and suspensions.

Other schools with similar poverty levels but better attendance rates posted much higher test scores.

As for regular attendance rates, Rogers High School once again came in with the lowest percentage of 63.9 percent of all students.

When compared with schools serving similar students, Diploma Plus programs generally have higher attendance rates, retention rates, and passing rates on state tests (Diploma Plus, n.d.).

Lewis and Clark High School appears to have the best attendance with a rate for 80.8 percent.

This is a high - stakes assessment, with a school's overall passing rate (along with percentages of drop - outs and attendance levels) determining its designation as either exemplary, recognized, acceptable, or low - performing.

Head Start students began with and maintained high rates of attendance compared with comparable students.

We also find consistently strong evidence that students with disabilities who spend more time in general education classrooms experience better outcomes — fewer absences, higher academic performance, higher rates of grade progression and on - time graduation, and higher rates of college attendance and employment — than students with disabilities who are similar in other observable ways but spend less time in general education classrooms.

PS 130 is a well - run neighborhood school with strong leadership, good instruction and one of the highest attendance rates in the city.

We partnered with North Chicago Community High School for three years to improve their graduation, attendance, and college - going rates.

However, two careful, large - scale studies, reviewed in detail below, suggest that despite the lack of persistence of value - added on future test scores, one year of experience with a high - value - added teacher predicts higher rates of college attendance and adult earnings, as well as other important outcomes.

Those conversations, he explains, led to a tightly coordinated effort between the district, the United Way of Greenville County, and other community partners to tackle poor attendance, raise academic achievement, and boost graduation rates in the White Horse Road community, a section of the county with the highest concentrations of poverty.

Among students who regularly attended OST programs, they had higher promotion rates than their peers, entered 6th and 9th grade with higher school attendance (important transition grades to middle and high school), and were significantly less likely to be chronically absent.

Posted March 15, 2018 School districts throughout Oregon are aiming for a share of about $ 170 million in new state support to address the needs of high school students with poor attendance rates who are at - risk of dropping out.

Schools with music education programs often have higher graduation and attendance rates.

An analysis of the state's own attendance data shows that absenteeism correlates with lower test scores and higher dropout rates.

NACTO's analysis considers comparable attendance and renewal rates from gyms, which show that members who were billed monthly, as opposed to annually, went to the gym more consistently, and that more consistent use was associated with higher annual renewal rates.

Promoted to account manager due to high account satisfaction ratings and performance, along with excellent attendance record

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.