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REPORT: Insights from a Pandemic

Reflections from the On Track to Career Success Project

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Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years

By Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes Executive Summary Connecting Social-Emotional Development and Academic Indicators Across Multiple Years builds on the work conducted for a previous study, “Connecting Social-Emotional development, Academic Achievement, and On-Track Outcomes: A Multi-District Study of Grades 3 to 10 Students Supported by City Year AmeriCorps Members.” Released in May of 2020, that […]

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Virtual Event: “How COVID Changed Education”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools worldwide closed and an estimated 168 million students have been out of school for over a year, entering into a mass online learning experiment. In the United States, in-person learning will largely be restored this fall, but questions remain about how to keep K-12 schools safe and about the lingering […]

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2021 Education Policy Practicum

Spring 2021Wednesdays, 8:30am – 11:30am ET Instructor: Robert Balfanz, 410-516-4272, rbalfanz@jhu.edu Course Description: : In this class students will examine how state and federal education policy is made through an exploration of contemporary educational issues and current educational policy debates and actors. The class is organized from the perspective of education policy practitioners. Course Syllabus: Please follow this link […]

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Using recent graduates to strategically expand Americorps will help those still in school

By Robert BalfanzFor the Baltimore SunJune 24, 2020 Our country’s systemic racism combined with inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 threaten a 15-year trend of improving educational advancements of low income and minority students. Unless we take bold action, we are on the precipice of creating a lost generation of students, without secure pathways to adult success, further […]

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Projects

ALFA LAB ALFA stands for Accelerating Literacy For Adolescents. ALFA is a reading enrichment program for freshman students who enter high school with a reading proficiency that is significantly below grade level standards. ALFA offers opportunities for these students to work in small groups with support to boost their motivation to read, frequency of reading, and reading and writing achievement. […]

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Delineating the “duplicity of equality” in academic placement for African American families

The Duplicity of Equality: An Analysis of Academic Placement in a Racially Diverse School and a Black Community is the latest study by researcher and associate professor Richard Lofton, Jr., of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. This study explores how African American parents come to […]

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Building a Grad Nation

Our Goal To increase the on-time high school graduation rate to 90 percent by the Class of 2020 and put millions more young people on the path to adult success. What we do The GradNation campaign brings focus and energy, research and best practices, national attention and a broad coalition to the graduation challenge. For […]

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Diplomas Now

Diplomas Now is a public-private partnership that helps some of America’s toughest middle and high schools ensure that their students graduate ready for college or career. Diplomas Now combines three major nonprofits, local school districts and funders, and is the first fully integrated approach that improves a school’s curriculum and instruction as it provides the right support […]

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NSAESC National Convening and Webinars

NATIONAL STUDENT ATTENDANCE, ENGAGEMENT, AND SUCCESS CENTER The mission of the center is to disseminate evidence based practices and build and facilitate communities of practice to help students attend every day, be engaged in school, and succeed academically, so that they graduate high school prepared for college, career, and civic life. NSAESC NATIONAL CONVENING (MAY […]