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How Your Community Can Meet Its Graduation Challenge
Alabama Summit | May 2009 Graduation Nation contains research-based guidance for addressing the dropout crisis in your community, with ready-to-print tools and links to additional online resources. One size does not fit all, so you will not find step-by-step instructions, rather you will find tools to create a customized solution that’s right for your community. […]
Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path
Keynote Address NMSA Middle Levels Essential Conference | April 23, 2009 President Obama has challenged the nation to eliminate dropping out as an option.The middle grades, particularly in high-poverty neighborhoods, have a vital role in meeting this challenge. At least half of eventual dropouts can fall off the path to graduation in the middle grades. […]
Improving Educational Opportunities: A Randomized Evaluation Study of a High School Dropout Prevention Program
American Educational Research Association | April 2009 Common Characteristics of Effective Dropout Prevention Programs personalizing the experience of high school to increase student engagement through mentoring or counseling programs focusing on increasing student attendance and achievement (tutoring or other academic support) helping students to see a connection between high school work and life after high […]
Closing Middle Grade Achievement Gaps: Indicators and Enablers: Findings from a Decade of Work
NYC DOE Closing Achievement Gap Series | March 24, 2009 Finding 1: To realize the results we desire, interventions in middle grades schools must be comprehensive. Finding 2: We have underestimated the intensity and scale of the educational challenge in high-poverty middle schools. Finding 3: Creating high-poverty middle schools that prepare all students for success […]
What Works! 2009 Moving Forward – Tennessee
Graduation Summit Volunteer Tennessee | March 18, 2009 Students: Attend on time and every day, behave well, gain earned credits for promotion to the next grade, and maintain a B average or higher Learning is relevant, participatory and experiential. School builds bridges to adulthood. Download the full presentation, a powerpoint, available here in pdf.
Meeting the Nation’s Graduation Challenge
Making Graduation Count Congressional Briefing | March 2009 How Close is the Nation to Graduating All its High School Students? Nation’s Graduation Rate is currently about 74% Currently there is about a 20 point gap between White Students (80%) and African American and Latino Students (60%) Need to say “about” because still do not have […]
Raising Graduation Rates: A Series of Data Briefs Progress Toward Increasing National and State Graduation Rates
This is the first in a series of briefs examining the progress in raising high school graduation rates over the past decade. During this period, the prevailing view on high school graduation rates has moved from the belief that essentially everyone who wanted to, or needed to, graduate from high school was doing so to […]
Do We Have What It Takes To Put All Students on the Graduation Path?
Two years ago a young man named Vic Fenner attended our Baltimore Talent Development High School (BTDHS), an innovation school opened in 2004 through a partnership between Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Public Schools. Vic came to BTDHS as a 9th grader with myriad problems. Like many students entering BTDHS, he was performing below […]
Data-Driven Decision Making Requires More than Just Achievement Data: Measuring and Analyzing the Factors that Influence Achievement
National Conference on Education | February 2009 The importance of collecting and analyzing data on factors behind student achievement (e.g., teacher practice, instructional quality and intervention implementation) Specific strategies for collecting and analyzing such data How to use results in a feedback loop for decision-making regarding instructional practice, equipping teachers, and implementing effective interventions for […]
2009 Grad Nation: A Guidebook
Grad Nation is a guidebook for communities that seek to improve their high school graduation and college readiness rates. It provides detailed information and tools to support reforms and enable effective community action in four key areas: Rallying your community to confront the Dropout Crisis Understanding the Dropout/Graduation Rate Crisis in Your Community Developing Comprehensive […]
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