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

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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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

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

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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Fulfilling Maryland’s Promise of a Thorough and Efficient Education

Bearing Strange Fruit: How Baltimore Youth and Families Articulate and Cope with Underinvestment and Lack of Opportunity in Baltimore City Schools. A report by Richard Lofton, Ph.D., Larry C. Simmons, Joshua Schuschke, Ph.D.

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Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years

By Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes Executive Summary Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years builds on the work conducted for a previous study, “Connecting Social-Emotional development, Academic Achievement, and On-Track Outcomes: A Multi-District Study of Grades 3 to 10 Students Supported by City Year AmeriCorps Members.” Released in May of 2020, that […]

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Use of an Early Warning Identification and Student Intervention System: A Case Study of Three Effective Promotion Coaches

By Marcia H. Davis, this this article examines the activities of three top coaches using the EWI team modeling in rural, urban, and suburban schools to do a deep dive into their activities to identify important lessons for developing new early warning systems.

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Supporting Students During the Pandemic and Beyond: The Case for a Corps for Student Success

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Continuous Improvement in High Schools: Helping More Students Succeed

The newest publication by Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz, Continuous Improvement in High Schools, gives educators and policymakers an accessible, actionable framework to address one of the nation’s most important educational priorities: improving high school graduation and postsecondary preparedness rates. Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz, national experts in dropout prevention, apply the […]

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