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National Success Mentors Initiative Implementation Guide & How Tos

Implementation Guide: How to Begin This Guide provides tips on how to implement a Success Mentor model at your school. It was created for districts, schools, team captains and school partners. Getting Started Success Mentor Getting Started Checklist What makes a mentoring program work Program Planning Chart This Checklist for Developing and Launching a Success […]

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The White House Launches New National Effort and Ad Council Campaign to Eliminate Chronic Absenteeism and Drive Student Success

February 19, 2016, the White House and the U.S. Department of Education announced two groundbreaking campaigns to address and eliminate chronic student absenteeism in this country: the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) Success Mentors Initiative — with 10 initial participating cities — and a multi-million dollar Ad Council campaign to engage parents on this critical issue. […]

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Getting Back on-Track: Early Warning Indicator Analysis of High School & Post-Secondary Outcomes San Jose Unified School District

This study was conducted by the Everyone Graduates Center (EGC) of the School of Education, Johns Hopkins University, with support from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) of Brown University through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the College and Career Readiness Indicator (CRIS) effort which it sponsored. The study was carried out […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Pennsylvania Department of Education

This page is a resource for the Pennsylvania Department of Education and participating schools who are working to implement Early Warning Systems within their school or district. This page has some national resources at the top and then is divided by Professional Development module. Click on the module below to be taken directly to resources. […]

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New Mexico Early Warning Systems

The Everyone Graduates Center is a unit of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. Learn more about the Everyone Graduates Center here. Grad Nation For more information about Building a Grad Nation, follow this link. 2016 Building a Grad Nation Report Building a Grad Nation: New Mexico (2010-2015) 2015 Reports, Presentations and Publications Beyond the Indicators: […]

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Joanna H. Fox

Joanna Hornig Fox was the Deputy Director, Everyone Graduates Center (EGC), School of Education, Johns Hopkins University. Her interests included research, policy and practice at the state, district, school and community levels, and network and capacity-building. She co-directed EGC’s Bill & Melinda Gates’ Foundation-funded Pathways to Adult Success initiative, which with educators from 27 states […]

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Early Warning Systems Early Adopters Learning Conference 2013

Welcome attendees of the Early Warning Systems Early Adopters Learning Conference hosted by the Bush Institute, the Everyone Graduates Center, Civic Enterprises and the Meadows Center on November 5-6, 2013. The summit, held in Dallas, Texas, brought together educators and researchers to exchange best practices and develop a core set of design principles for school, […]

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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

Final Report to Nation on Efforts to Improve High School Graduation Rates Shows Long-Term Gains Due to focused efforts, 5 million more students graduated, rather than dropping out, from 2001 through 2020. More than half a million more students received diplomas this year due to progress. Washington, D.C. – This year’s Building A Grad Nation […]