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What Do We Know About Assessing Need and Progress in Low Graduation Rate High Schools?

The first and absolutely essential step in improving low graduation rate high schools is to have a deep understanding of why they are not currently succeeding. This needs to be known both in the general sense of why we have low graduation rate high schools and in a deeply specific sense for the particular high […]

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Alabama Early Warning Systems

Why Chronic Absenteeism Matters and What Can Be Done About It (powerpoint) By Dr. Robert Balfanz Director, Senior Research Scientist Everyone Graduates Center Johns Hopkins University School of Education Getting Started and Keeping Moving with Early Warning Systems in Alabama By Joanna H. Fox Deputy Director Everyone Graduates Center Johns Hopkins University School of […]

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Toward a Black Habitus: African Americans Navigating Systemic Inequalities within Home, School, and Community

Toward a Black Habitus: African Americans Navigating Systemic Inequalities within Home, School, and Community Richard Lofton and James Earl Davis The Journal of Negro Education Summer 2015 Vol. 84, No. 3, Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Understanding the Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Academic Success (Guest Editors: Nadine Finigan-Carr and Yolanda Abel) (Summer […]

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Graduating Young Men of Color

This month more than three million high school students will receive their diplomas. At more than 80 percent, America’s graduation rate is at a record high. More kids are going to college, too. But one-third of the nation’s African American and Latino young men will not be among the graduates. See Stop Holding Us Back, […]

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2014 Building a Grad Nation Report

This fifth annual update on America’s high school dropout crisis shows that, for the first time in history, the nation has crossed the 80 percent high school graduation rate threshold and remains on pace, for the second year in a row, to meet the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the […]

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2013 Building a Grad Nation Report

This fourth annual update on America’s high school dropout crisis shows that for the first time the nation is on track to meet the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the Class of 2020—if the pace of improvement from 2006 to 2010 is sustained over the next 10 years. The greatest […]

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The Case for Baltimore Talent Development High School

To The School Commissioners of Baltimore City Public Schools Jan. 29, 2013 The Case for Baltimore Talent Development High School This brief presents information that we believe will help the Baltimore City School Commissioners make an informed decision regarding the recommendations they have received as part of the School Renewal Process to end the Center […]

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Learning What it Takes

Growing alarm over high dropout rates has created a groundswell of interest in ways to identify and respond to the needs of students at risk of falling off the graduation path. Groundbreaking research finds a substantial percentage of eventual dropouts can be identified at key transition points (sixth and ninth grades) using attendance, behavior, and […]

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Still a Freshman: Examining the Prevalence and Characteristics of Ninth-Grade Retention Across Six States

Because ninth grade is a make-or-break year for increasing graduation rates, schools with high ninth-grade retention rates face many challenges in improving their graduation rates. In many of these schools there is a mismatch between the number of students who need help and the help available. Ninth-grade retention rates, however, can act as an early […]

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Beyond the Indicators: An Integrated School-Level Approach to Dropout Prevention

Beyond the Indicators provides an integrated framework that schools and districts can use to build a foundation to prevent students from dropping out. Based on a tiered public health model, this framework provides universal and school-wide practices designed to produce high attendance, positive behavior, and successful academic achievement for the majority of students. It includes […]