Not exact matches
... [F] or
low - risk women
with a skilled midwife in
attendance, home birth is a safe option for newborns
with lower rates of interventions and complications for mothers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attendance rates are very
low among post-16 students re-sitting GCSEs, many of whom have struggled
with exams, are disengaged and / or
low in confidence.
As for regular
attendance rates, Rogers High School once again came in
with the
lowest percentage of 63.9 percent of all students.
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.
These families also tend to have
low parental involvement
rates with very limited access to information about schools, students» behavior,
attendance, progress and performance.
The first tier rewards improved
attendance and creates an engaging school climate
with low suspension
rates.
An analysis of the state's own
attendance data shows that absenteeism correlates
with lower test scores and higher dropout
rates.
In this engaging new book, Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman capture five compelling cases, teaching us that thoughtful, purposeful integration of social and emotional learning combined
with rigorous project - based learning results in high levels of academic achievement, strong
attendance,
low dropout
rates, and a high percentage of students going to college.
Dropout
rates in the PLL group among parents and teenagers were extremely
low with an 85 %
attendance rate by the parents and an 80 %
attendance rate by youths, even though
attendance was not court ordered.