Camden's 49% four-year graduation rate in 2012 was the third-worst in the state, behind Asbury Park and Trenton.
Education applications: Students with broadband at home have a 7% higher graduation rate, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
The high school graduation rate for Baltimore City schools is 56.4%.
This Jumbo Bonus is not unusual in its proportion of salary to win-based incentives with a low graduation rate component.
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At South Bronx Prep, the graduation rate was also higher than 90%, yet only around 15% met the college readiness criteria.
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Poor students fared markedly worse than their wealthier counterparts, and their graduation rate was 54% in 2009, lower than the state average.
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Each Scorecard includes five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, and employment.
Despite a diverse population of students, a quarter of whom were immigrants, the province's high-school graduation rate rose from 68% to 82%.
Michigan, which started playing football in 1879 and is a nationally renowned academic powerhouse, has a 69% graduation rate for football players.
And just a few years ago they had a 50-percent graduation rate.
You do admit that Notre Dame has the highest graduation rate in college football and is currently the top-ranked team in college football.
Its graduation rate is between 70 and 90%, according to Awuah.
And more insightfully, the success threshold is a 75% graduation rate.
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Those incentives are often for winning a conference regular season or tournament championship, maintaining a certain graduation rate or even earning Coach of the Year honors.
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Yet those facts like the stubborn racial gap and the low graduation rate for poor pupils could just as well argue for improving as ending the current system.
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The interactive College Scorecard gives students and families five key pieces of data about a college: costs, graduation rate, loan default rate, average amount borrowed, and employment.
According to the Federal Reserve, these students have a high school graduation rate six to eight percentage points lower than those who have home access to the Internet.
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According to Harvard's Stephan Thernstrom, an opponent of racial preferences, the new system ensures a higher minority graduation rate by not accepting students incapable of doing well at the best colleges.
But purely in financial terms, families can make smarter decisions by zooming in on factors such as net price after aid, graduation rate, job placement rates and how much you might have to borrow.
And yet the graduation rate is almost 20 points higher than the rest of the city -- 20 points higher. (Applause.) Ninety-four percent of the most recent graduating class went to college.
The 4-year graduation rate at Tilden was 37%.
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The graduation rate for seniors reached 79%.
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Finally, they evaluate how many students actually finish their degrees in four years, considering both the actual graduation rate (8.75%) and the gap between the average rate and a predicted rate, based on characteristics of the school (8.75%).
According to John Porter, assistant superintendent, Administrative Services and Public Relations for the Alexandria City Public Schools, their graduation rate is reflective of a large number of foreign-born students who may take longer than the traditional four years to graduate.
And our graduation rate went up from a 64 percent this year to a 73.5. (Applause.) And that's a concern to me, in the United States that we are losing so many young men, not only Afro-American men, but all men.
There are other non-graduation rate bonus incentives, but when I add it all up and try to make sense of it, I am left with a question: If I was the coach, would I prioritize graduation rates and risk winning, knowing I would also risk losing 97% of my bonus?
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Since no standard method to calculate a graduation rate is enforced nationally, and the college entrance exam boards will only release data below a state level directly to the schools, not the public, we were left to trust county, district and school officials to honestly and accurately report their results.
But if you guys do well in school, my goal is to make sure that, through loans and grants, you are going to be able to afford to go to college. (Applause.) And -- because we need to have the highest -- I want us to have the highest college graduation rate of any country in the world.
The NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) is designed to show the proportion of student-athletes on any given team who earn a college degree.
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