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Martha Abele Mac Iver, Presentations, Publications | Comments

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 […]

Capacity Building, Presentations, Publications, Robert Balfanz | Comments

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 […]

Joanna H. Fox, Presentations, Publications | Comments

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.

Brother's Keeper, Capacity Building, Presentations, Robert Balfanz | Comments

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 […]

Martha Abele Mac Iver, Presentations, Publications | Comments

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 […]

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

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 […]

Brother's Keeper, Capacity Building, Publications, Reports, Robert Balfanz | Comments

What Your Community Can Do to End Its Dropout Crisis

This is a resource guide that synthesizes what has been learned over the past decade about keeping students on the graduation path. It highlights the importance of four key transition points the early years of schooling, the transition to the middle grades, the transition to high school, and the transition to college and careers. It […]

Preventing Student Disengagement

This article considers the practical, conceptual, and empirical foundations of an early identification and intervention system for middle-grades schools to combat student disengagement and increase graduation rates in our nation’s cities. Many students in urban schools become disengaged at the start of the middle grades, which greatly reduces the odds that they will eventually graduate. […]

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Publications // Browsing posts in Publications

Improving Educational Opportunities: A Randomized Evaluation Study of a High School Dropout Prevention Program

Closing Middle Grade Achievement Gaps: Indicators and Enablers: Findings from a Decade of Work

What Works! 2009 Moving Forward – Tennessee

Meeting the Nation’s Graduation Challenge

Raising Graduation Rates: A Series of Data Briefs Progress Toward Increasing National and State Graduation Rates

Do We Have What It Takes To Put All Students on the Graduation Path?

Data-Driven Decision Making Requires More than Just Achievement Data: Measuring and Analyzing the Factors that Influence Achievement

2009 Grad Nation: A Guidebook

What Your Community Can Do to End Its Dropout Crisis

Preventing Student Disengagement

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