Those who do, and who get in, graduate at high rates.
They generally won more prizes, graduated at higher rates, and displayed lovelier penmanship.
Traditionally, athletes have graduated at higher rates than the overall student body and this year was no different.
What's more, on average students who receive SEL programming academically outperform their peers and graduate at higher rates.
Today they have higher college enrollment and graduate at higher rates, and on many campuses, women's and gender studies programs have mushroomed on campuses nationwide.
Today, Hidalgo students graduate at higher rates than the state average, and 98 percent -- compared with 81 percent statewide -- complete a recommended or distinguished curriculum as defined by the state.
Even as they are graduating at higher rates, students' performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test of reading and math achievement, is unchanged or slipping.
Starting with people born in the 1950s, American women have been more likely to graduate from high school; starting with people born in the 1960s, women have also graduated at higher rates than men.
Quantum showed that poor inner-city high school students could improve grades, graduate at higher rates and get into less trouble through quality after-school mentoring that promoted noncognitive skills as well as academic excellence.
Black boys who go to rigorous colleges graduate at higher rates than do similar peers at easier ones.In Chicago only a third of local students who aspire to college enroll in ones that match their skills.
Studies have shown that girls who play sports get better grades, graduate at higher rates, exhibit more confidence and self-esteem, and are less likely to have unwanted pregnancies.
