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REPORT: Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs
Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students’ Post-Pandemic Needs: Findings from the 2022-23 National Partnership for Student Success Principal Survey September 2023 By Robert Balfanz and Vaughan Byrnes One of the most comprehensive post-pandemic representative surveys of public school principals on the provision of student supports shows that the nation’s schools and their partners are working […]
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 […]
Designing Education podcast, S2, Ep. 2: Chronic Absenteeism and Keys to Reengaging Students
The evidence is clear. Students need to attend school on a regular basis to succeed. If the purpose of school is to help students learn and development, then being there is important. Until quite recently, however, we did not regularly measure the extent to which the students enrolled in a school were attending on a […]
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 […]
Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
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The 2021 report explores progress and challenge in raising high school graduation rates. Co-Authored by: Civic & Everyone Graduates Center
What Will It Take to Get High School Students Back on Track?
3 strategies to boost graduation and postsecondary success by Robert Balfanz
Continuous Improvement in High Schools: Helping More Students Succeed
The newest publication by Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz, Continuous Improvement in High Schools, gives educators and policymakers an accessible, actionable framework to address one of the nation’s most important educational priorities: improving high school graduation and postsecondary preparedness rates. Martha Abele Mac Iver and Robert Balfanz, national experts in dropout prevention, apply the […]
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 […]
A College Program for Disadvantaged Teens Could Shake Up Elite Admissions
An education program is immersing underprivileged students in Ivy League classes, and the students’ success has raised questions about how elite university gatekeepers determine college prospects. By Erica L. Green for The New York TimesFeb. 18, 2021 The article highlights The National Education Equity Lab’s pilot program to reimagine and expand the roles and responsibilities […]
Can Dropout Factory Researcher Save COVID Generation?
THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION with EJ Carrion is an education media publication focused on breaking down the biggest stories and latest education trends. In its most recent episode, Carrion interviews Robert Balfanz to get his perspective on the most recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse that showed that college enrollment for low-income high school […]
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REPORT: Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students' Post-Pandemic Needs
Increasing School Capacity to Meet Students' Post-Pandemic...
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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
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U.S. Department of Education issues a new call to action
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REPORT: Insights from a Pandemic
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Designing Education podcast, S2, Ep. 2: Chronic Absenteeism and Keys to Reengaging Students
The evidence is clear. Students need to attend...
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