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Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep 8: A Place Where Everyone Wants to Be

Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep 8: A Place Where Everyone Wants to Be

In Season 2, Episode 8, Sofia Russo, Principal of High School for Media and Communications located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City joins Robert Balfanz for a conversation about what is possible when school leaders, teachers, students, families and community members are given opportunities to engage in school redesign. With just a little support […]

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Comments Off on Skills for Secondary School Success (4S)

Skills for Secondary School Success (4S)

Skills for Secondary School Success (4S) is a new research-based curriculum designed to prepare students for high school by boosting their competence, self-management, growth mindset, self-efficacy, sense of school belonging, and purpose. 4S is a 40-lesson course module, for 7th and/or 8th grade students in a non-core course of the school’s choosing. Participating schools will […]

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REPORT: Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs

REPORT: Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs

Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs: Findings from the 2022-23 National Partnership for Student Success Principal Survey September 2023 By Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes One of the most comprehensive post-pandemic representative surveys of public school principals on the provision of student supports shows that the nation’s schools and their partners are working […]

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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

Final Report to Nation on Efforts to Improve High School Graduation Rates Shows Long-Term Gains Due to focused efforts, 5 million more students graduated, rather than dropping out, from 2001 through 2020. More than half a million more students received diplomas this year due to progress. Washington, D.C. – This year’s Building A Grad Nation […]

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U.S. Department of Education issues a new call to action

U.S. Department of Education issues a new call to action

We are excited to share that the U.S. Department of Education has published a Dear Colleague Letter calling upon Institutions of Higher Education to increase the number of their students involved in supporting local P-12 students and communities in an effort to further aid pandemic educational recovery.

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REPORT: Insights from a Pandemic

REPORT: Insights from a Pandemic

Reflections from the On Track to Career Success Project

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Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep. 2: Chronic Absenteeism and Keys to Reengaging Students

Designing Education Podcast, S2, Ep. 2: Chronic Absenteeism and Keys to Reengaging Students

The evidence is clear. Students need to attend school on a regular basis to succeed. If the purpose of school is to help students learn and development, then being there is important. Until quite recently, however, we did not regularly measure the extent to which the students enrolled in a school were attending on a […]

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New study highlights how trusting relationships provide the necessary foundation for academic success

New study highlights how trusting relationships provide the necessary foundation for academic success

Baltimore, MD – The Dynamics of City Year Interactions with Students and How They Contribute to Social-Emotional Learning and Academic Outcomes, a report by Tarsha Herelle and Mariko Yoshisato, postdoctoral fellows with the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins School of Education, illuminates the critical role that City Year AmeriCorps Members (ACMs) play in supporting […]

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Amplified Voices Series: Bearing Strange Fruit

Amplified Voices Series: Bearing Strange Fruit

Tues., Sept. 20 at 5:30 – 8:00pm ET: Enoch Pratt Free Library is excited to have John Hopkins researcher Dr. Richard Lofton PhD and community organizer Mr. Larry Simmons, of the Nobody Asked Me Campaign, in the first of its Amplified Voices series to discuss the state of education in the city as seen through […]

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Diverse Coalition of Education Groups Announces Support for the National Partnership for Student Success Launched Today by Biden-Harris Administration

Diverse Coalition of Education Groups Announces Support for the National Partnership for Student Success Launched Today by Biden-Harris Administration

An all-in effort to help students recover from the impacts of the pandemic and thrive Baltimore, MD (July 5, 2022) – A diverse group of public and non-profit organizations are announcing their support for the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS), a coordinated, research-based, locally-driven, all-in effort to help all students recover from the impacts […]

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