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Books and Chapters, Impact of School, Family, & Community on Keeping Students on the Graduation Path, Joyce Epstein, Publications, Steve Sheldon | Comments

Present and Accounted For: Partnership Effects on Student Attendance

Reducing student absenteeism and truancy is a goal of many schools across the country. Surprisingly little research focuses on what schools can do to increase and sustain students’ daily attendance, and even fewer studies explore how family–school–community partnerships may contribute to this goal. In this longitudinal study, data were collected on schools’ rates of daily […]

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 […]

Books and Chapters, Nettie Legters, Publications, Robert Balfanz | Comments

Putting All Students on the Graduation Path: New Directions for Youth Development, No. 127

At no other time in our nation’s history has graduating from high school been a more important prerequisite for adult success. Young people who fall off the graduation path are more prone than ever before to experience chronic unemployment, poverty, ill health, dependence on social welfare, and a lifetime of struggle. The enormous costs to […]

Gradual Disengagement: A Portrait of the 2008-09 Dropouts in the Baltimore City Schools

Gradual Disengagement: A Portrait of the 2008-09 Dropouts in the Baltimore City Schools examined eight years of student-level data to paint a collective portrait of the process of disengagement that leads to student dropout. The study found that the majority of students who eventually drop out of Baltimore high schools enter ninth grade with a […]

Common Planning: A Linchpin Practice in Transforming Secondary Schools

A central lesson from secondary school reform efforts to date is that structural reforms such as small learning communities (SLCs), interdisciplinary teams, and even flexible scheduling do not automatically or instantly transform secondary schools into high performing learning organizations. Realizing the potential of these reforms requires that they be activated by groups of adults with […]

Presentations, Publications, Robert Balfanz | Comments

Meeting the Nation’s High School Graduation Challenge

U.S. Army National Education Conference | September 2009 President Obama has challenged the nation to eliminate dropping out as an option. How then does the dropout crisis end? We know where the problem is concentrated. We have insight into why these high schools have low graduation rates. We know why most students drop out of […]

Joanna H. Fox, Presentations, Publications | Comments

The Promise of New Mexico’s Youth

Lieutenant Governor’s Statewide Graduation Summit | September 10, 2009 Las Cruces, New Mexico What’s unique about New Mexico, the system of schooling, and the communities? How can learning from national reform efforts best be adapted to meet New Mexico needs? How can youth voice effectively inform school improvement? How can adult wisdom best inform school […]

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 […]

Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path: A Policy and Practice Brief

The middle grades will play a pivotal role in enabling the nation to reach President Obama’s goal of graduating all students from high school prepared for college or advanced career training. In high-poverty neighborhoods, in particular, our research and school improvement work indicate that students’ middle grades experiences have tremendous impact on the extent to […]

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Publications // Browsing posts in Publications

Present and Accounted For: Partnership Effects on Student Attendance

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

Putting All Students on the Graduation Path: New Directions for Youth Development, No. 127

Gradual Disengagement: A Portrait of the 2008-09 Dropouts in the Baltimore City Schools

Common Planning: A Linchpin Practice in Transforming Secondary Schools

Meeting the Nation’s High School Graduation Challenge

The Promise of New Mexico’s Youth

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

Putting Middle Grades Students on the Graduation Path: A Policy and Practice Brief

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