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Graduation rates should be considered equally as important as high-quality assessments aligned to college and work readiness in determining school quality. Schools cannot be considered successful if large percentages of their students, particularly those who are of color and/or low-income, are dropping out or being pushed out.
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SOUTHSIDE — Project Graduation is a program undertaken each year by parents of students who will soon graduate. It’s an attempt to provide a safe, positive, drug and alcohol-free environment in which graduating seniors can get together one last time.
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VARSITY VENTURES, $1M http://www.varsityventures.net San Diego, CA THE PITCH: "Great ideas don't wait for graduation! Varsity Ventures Corporation finds entrepreneurs while they're still on campus, and provides funding, business planning, development resources, incubation, synergistic entrepreneur relationships, mentoring, and marketing. This achieves a head start on other venture operations and accelerates the maturation of new technology concepts so they'll spend more revenue-generating time within their market window. Our initial fund will be $10 million; we need one million dollars to establish the business model and attain strategic help to extend our operations to other markets."WHY WE LIKE IT: Entree into promising new technologies coming out of universities.WHAT THEY'RE UP AGAINST: None of its current top management has venture experience; most colleges have already launched (or have had students launch) their own venture funds, including Cornell's Big Red Venture Fund, Yale's Silicon Ivy Ventures, and UCLA's College of Letters and Science Investment Fund.CONTACT: Roy Kaufmann, CEO, roy@varsityventures.net
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Since the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) became federal law in January 2002, high school graduation rates have gained an increasingly important place in educational policy circles. The federal law for the first time requires that high schools and school systems be held accountable in a meaningful way for graduation rates as well as performance on academic assessments. This important step in the evolution of federal accountability has generated a considerable amount of debate over a variety of issues including: the state of the nation with regard to this key measure of educational fitness; graduation levels among particular student subgroups (such as historically disadvantaged minorities); the ways in which states are implementing graduation rate accountability required under the law; and even the best methods for measuring graduation rates. (Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?, Urban Institute, 2004)
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All students and prospective students may request graduation information regarding SNU athletic programs through the University's Athletic Department. The department maintains information concerning the graduation rates for SNU students receiving athletically-related financial aid.
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With the graduation of its inaugural class on the horizon, Concord University School of Law, the world's first and only wholly Internet law school, is rising to the occasion with escalating enrollment and solid performance. Concord has grown from 33 students to more than 1000 students today enrolled in Concord's Juris Doctor, Executive Juris Doctor sm, and LL.M. in Health Law programs....
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