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Boston Opportunity Agenda report validates College, Career and Life Readiness metrics, and connections between high school course work, college and career success
Report tracking Boston Public Schools students finds high GPA, MassCore curriculum and attendance are predictors of success after graduation. The latest report, College, Career and Life Readiness: A Look at High School Indicators of Post-Secondary Outcomes in Boston, by Robert Blafanz and Vaughan Byrnes in partnership with the Boston Opportunity Agenda and Boston Public Schools, […]
Implementation of an Early Warning Indicator and Intervention System
By Marcia H. Davis, Martha Abele Mac Iver, Robert W. Balfanz, Marc L. Stein, and Joanna Hornig Fox This study focuses on the implementation of an early warning indicator and intervention system in 20 southern high schools. This model included a team of teachers, counselors, and student support services personnel who analyzed ninth- grade student-level […]
Great American High School Campaign: Reforming the Nation’s Remaining Low-Performing High Schools
After more than a decade of progress in improving high school graduation rates, there remain about 1,300 traditional high schools in need of serious improvement and redesign, according to new research from the GradNation campaign. Among them are more than 800 low-graduation-rate high schools with an average graduation rate of 49 percent. From the inner […]
2018 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
The 2018 Building a Grad Nation report takes an in-depth look at the progress that was made between 2011 and 2016 in raising high school graduation rates and the state and district sources of those improvements, and identify where challenges remain. The report links improvements in high school graduation rates to the need to ensure […]
Using Data and the Human Touch: Evaluating the NYC Inter-Agency Campaign to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
Using Data and the Human Touch: Evaluating the NYC Inter-Agency Campaign to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes February 9, 2018 Following a 2008 report that documented the extent of chronic absenteeism in New York City’s schools, the city organized an interagency task force to develop and implement a citywide effort to reduce chronic absenteeism. Given […]
Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence
The Everyone Graduates Center and Attendance Works are pleased to partner on Portraits of Change: Aligning School and Community Resources to Reduce Chronic Absence. More than seven million students nationwide are chronically absent from school – missing so much school, for any reason, that they are academically at risk. Starting as early as preschool and kindergarten, chronic absence […]
2017 Building a Grad Nation Report
2017 BGN Exec Summary vFINAL The 2017 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Graduation Rates report is co-authored by Jennifer DePaoli, John Bridgeland, Matthew Atwell, and Erin S. Ingram of Civic Enterprises and Robert Balfanz and his team at the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of […]
Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment
In just over a decade, the nation witnessed a 77 percent increase in associate degrees and a 51 percent increase in bachelor’s degrees – debunking the notion that high school completion is not leading to college completion, according to new research from Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of […]
The Education of Omarina – The Story Continues
In PART THREE of The Education of Omarina, FRONTLINE continues the story they have been following since 2012. The story shows how an innovative program to stem the high school dropout crisis has affected one girl’s journey, from a public middle school in the Bronx to an elite New England private school, and now on to college. Watch part three […]
Everyone Graduates Center Roadmap to Evidence Based Reform for Low Graduation Rate High Schools
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires that states and districts implement evidence based reform in low graduation rate high schools. Specifically, they are required to conduct needs assessments for high schools with graduation rates of 67% or less and then assemble a set of evidence based practices and reforms that address the identified needs […]
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Co-Designing with Students: Learnings from the On Track to Career Success Project
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Ninth Grade Success in Baltimore City: Fact Book of Data Trends and Key Measures
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National Partnership for Student Success Celebration and RAND Release Event
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2nd Annual National School Redesign Showcase
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Grad Nation Stanford Social Innovation Review Fall 2024 Article
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