Sentence examples for increasing graduation from inspiring English sources
While our economic competitors are rapidly increasing graduation rates at both levels, we continue to fall behind.
In that time, Dr. Pollard has focused on increasing graduation rates, making the college more student-friendly and, mostly, getting to know the campus.
Where charters are reducing academic failure and increasing graduation rates, and sending kids to college, we need to replicate that and learn from it and support it.
Pointing to increasing graduation rates, he argued that his government is doing its bit to "prepare our kids for a more competitive world".
The Ash Center, in giving the award, highlighted two Center for Economic Opportunity programs in particular: one focused on providing training and job placement in high-growth industries and another aimed at increasing graduation rates at the city's community colleges.
City Hall also is right when it says that, despite the disappointing scores, the schools have made measurable progress in recent years: increasing graduation rates, sending more students to college and narrowing the performance gap between white and minority students.
The perennial hope, in Los Angeles as elsewhere, is that Superman or Wonder Woman will come in and increase graduation rates, close the achievement gap, guarantee that all graduates are college or career ready — and will do it overnight.
And it highlights strategies that have helped to increase graduation rates.
The Pell grant program helps currently enrolled low-income students pay college bills, reduces debt and increases graduation rates.
The foundation is giving an additional $10 million to increase graduation rates at all seven community colleges of the City University of New York.
Nicholas Danforth Washington, Nov. 18, 2008 To the Editor: It's hardly surprising that restricting college enrollment to applicants with the highest test scores increases graduation rates.
