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... recipients were still enrolled at Georgia State a year later. The school has been lauded in recent years for using data to boost retention and graduation rates. Between 2011 and 2013, the overall graduation rate rose to 53 percent from 47 percent. More than half of students come from households ...
... the Web site OZY. Big story I saw on your Web site first which is I found interesting from "The Economist." It's about reverse gap -- the reverse gender gap, which is to say that teenage girls globally are doing better than boys. CARLOS WATSON, CEO, OZY: Big surprise. So ...
... to flag struggling students, raising the compulsory attendance age, taking driver's licenses away from dropouts, and getting parents more involved. But, in 18 states, graduation rates didn't move. And three states, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, saw their rates slip significantly. Researchers also found a persistent gap based on ...
JEFFREY BROWN: Well, tell us what else -- staying with you, in a nutshell, what else are you proposing that -- that should be done? HILARY PENNINGTON: We -- in addition to working to reinvent and get breakthrough results in remedial education, we are working to help create (AUDIO GAP) online kinds of ...
KEVIN BLACKISTONE: Right. JUDY WOODRUFF: ... that there's a much higher graduation rate among white athletes than among black athletes. KEVIN BLACKISTONE: Right. And, unfortunately, that gap seems to have widened a little bit this year, and that's what's troubling to a lot of people. Now, on one ...
... draft rule released Thursday spells out a broad framework for states to consider as they design new accountability systems to improve schools and narrow achievement gaps. "We expect states and local school districts to set high standards for all students, regardless of their background, and to identify schools, or groups ...
... high college drop-out rates. With the odds of a poor, first-generation student earning a bachelor’s degree within six years of high school graduation at about one in 10, Edison is among a small but growing number of schools that are trying to help alumni avoid the crippling ...
... which provides tutoring and mentoring to kids in kindergarten through 12th grade. MATT RAAB, Program Director, School on Wheels: Our goal is to find the gaps in the education of homeless students and fill in those gaps, help those students catch up. DAVID NAZAR: Matt Raab is the group's ...
The growth has been spurred by such factors as a greater awareness of the dropout problem and efforts by districts, states and the federal government to include graduation rates in accountability measures. Among the initiatives are closing "dropout factory" schools.
Photo by PBS NewsHour After decades of using different metrics to calculate high school graduation rates, the Department of Education has for the first time released data for most states' graduation rates under one standardized measurement. The new data highlights an effort to provide a uniform baseline for analysis, beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year....
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