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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 […]
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 […]
U.S. meeting its challenge on dropouts
Columbia Daily Tribune | February 17, 2009 Good news is rare these days. Home foreclosures, a credit crunch and rising joblessness have sent ripples of fear through the U.S. economy. Youth unemployment is approaching levels seen during the Great Depression. The nation could use a ray of hope, and progress is being made on one […]
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 […]
Volunteering to get tomorrow’s dropouts on track
Boston Globe | September 9, 2008 MILLIONS OF American students are back in high school, and before the year is done more than 1.1 million will drop out. In many of the nation’s cities and low-wealth rural districts, 40 to 60 percent of entering freshman will not graduate. The suburbs are no longer immune. Retired […]
A plan to fix ‘dropout factories’
The Christian Science Monitor | November 23, 2007 More students will stay if school is harder, safer, and more relevant. Many communities across the nation have just received alarming news – one or more of their high schools fit the profile of a “dropout factory.” That means two decades after the seminal report, “A Nation […]
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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