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2013 Building a Grad Nation Report

This fourth annual update on America’s high school dropout crisis shows that for the first time the nation is on track to meet the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the Class of 2020—if the pace of improvement from 2006 to 2010 is sustained over the next 10 years. The greatest […]

Capacity Building, Early Warning and Response Systems, Point of View, Robert Balfanz | Comments

Schools Battle Chronic Absenteeism – CNN

(CNN) – Millions of students are chronically absent. CNN’s Athena Jones looks at what schools are doing to increase attendance. See the video, including EGC’s own Dr. Robert Balfanz, here on CNN.com.

Capacity Building, Joanna H. Fox, Publications, Reports, Robert Balfanz | Comments

2012 Building a Grad Nation Report

Although some states and school districts show that the dropout crisis can be solved, other states and districts are lagging, with 10 states having lower high school graduation rates recently compared to earlier in the decade. The pace across the country must be accelerated more than three-fold to meet the national goal of a 90 […]

Capacity Building, Joanna H. Fox, Publications, Reports, Robert Balfanz | Comments

2011 Building a Grad Nation Report

We are now able to report that from 2008 to 2009 (the most current data available), the number of dropout factory high schools decreased by an additional 112 schools to 1,634, representing an annual rate of progress approximately three times as fast as the previous period. By 2009, approximately 580,000 fewer students attended a dropout […]

Capacity Building, Martha Abele Mac Iver, Publications, Reports, Robert Balfanz, Vaughan Byrnes | Comments

Advancing the “Colorado Graduates” Agenda

“About 30 percent of Colorado high school students don’t graduate. Less than half of the black, Latino and American Indian students who start high school in Colorado actually finish. Our goal: cut the drop-out rate in half within 10 years.” Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. The ambitious goal set by Colorado’s governor to address the state’s […]

Books and Chapters, Capacity Building, Joyce Epstein, Publications | Comments

Destination Graduation*

In addition to improving student achievement, many elementary, middle, and high schools are working to increase students’ career awareness, ensure completion of requirements for grade promotion and high school graduation, and improve planning for postsecondary education and training. This set of 15 activities comes from schools in the National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) at […]

Capacity Building, Ongoing Research, Stephen Plank | Comments

Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC)

The Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) is a partnership between Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and the Baltimore City Public School System to enhance Baltimore’s capacity to conduct strategic data analysis that supports improvements in the education of Baltimore’s children. BERC’s mission is to conduct and disseminate long- and short-term strategic data analysis and […]

Books and Chapters, Capacity Building, Marcy Davis, Martha Abele Mac Iver, Ongoing Research, Publications, Reports | Comments

Using Data to Keep All Students On-Track for Graduation: Team Playbook

How can educators organize middle and high schools so they provide the supports students need to keep them in school and on-track for secondary, post-secondary, and future success? Or more directly, how do we organize our schools so that students stay in school, behave appropriately, try hard, and succeed in their courses? A central lesson […]

2010 Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic

The central message of this report is that some states and school districts are raising their high school graduation rates with scalable solutions in our public schools, showing the nation we can end the high school dropout crisis. America made progress not only in suburbs and towns, but also in urban districts and in states […]

Capacity Building, Joanna H. Fox, Publications, Reports, Robert Balfanz | Comments

Graduating America: Meeting the Challenge of Low Graduation-Rate High Schools

This report is a collaboration between the Everyone Graduates Center and Jobs for the Future. While high schools with low graduation rates have developed in every state and many communities across the country, they are concentrated in a subset of 17 states that produce approximately 70 percent of the nation’s dropouts. These states, which are […]

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Capacity Building // Browsing posts in Capacity Building

2013 Building a Grad Nation Report

Schools Battle Chronic Absenteeism – CNN

2012 Building a Grad Nation Report

2011 Building a Grad Nation Report

Advancing the “Colorado Graduates” Agenda

Destination Graduation*

Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC)

Using Data to Keep All Students On-Track for Graduation: Team Playbook

2010 Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic

Graduating America: Meeting the Challenge of Low Graduation-Rate High Schools

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