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Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation released today by the America’s Promise Alliance and prepared by Editorial Projects in Education Research Center further reveals that in the metropolitan areas surrounding 35 of the nation’s largest cities, graduation rates…
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A new study released by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University outlines the extremely difficult circumstances that these young people ages 16 to 24 face after dropping out of high school, and demonstrates the high price paid by both these young adults, American taxpaye…
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In this book by Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, Wise describes the alarming cost of the high school dropout crisis that sees more than one million students drop out every year...
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Drawing from the work of leading researchers and educators from around the country, the Alliance for Excellent Education has identified ten key elements that every high school should have in place to ensure that all its students are successful. The list includes
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How to Keep Girls in School: Recommendations to Address the Dropout Crisis is a brief by the National Women's Law Center that addresses the elimination of barriers to high school graduation that have been shown to be
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If all of the U.S. high school dropouts from the Class of 2007 had earned diplomas along with their classmates, the U.S. economy could have benefited from an additional $330 billion in wages over these
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NASHVILLE – During closing ceremonies today at the America’s Promise Alliance’s (the Alliance) 2007 Regional Best Practice Forum, Alignment Nashville announced it will host a local summit designed to focus efforts on supporting Metro Nashville Public Schools’ work to increase the city’s high…
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Using National Center for Education Statistics data, Balfanz and Legters measured the "promoting power" of 10,000 high schools enrolling more than 300 students by
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In this paper, TASC and The Urban Assembly propose a more systemic alignment of high school reform efforts in New York City with Out-of-School time programs for high school students.
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Washington, DC – A report released today finds that only about half (53%) of all young people in the nation’s 50 largest cities are graduating from high school on time. Cities in Crisis 2009: Closing the Graduation Gap, prepared for America’s Promise Alliance by the Editorial Projects …
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NASHVILLE – With research showing that when youth are provided with supportive home, school and community environments, their chances of success dramatically increase, the America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance) is bringing its Regional Best Practice Forum to Nashville on July 31st and Aug.…
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(Trenton, NJ) – Gov. Jon S. Corzine and Alma Powell, chair of America’s Promise Alliance, tomorrow will launch the New Jersey High School Graduation Campaign, a year-long effort to combat the high rate of high school dropouts. They will be joined by 500 partners from across New Jersey represe…
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Cities in Crisis 2009: Closing the Graduation Gap prepared for America’s Promise Alliance by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, shows that despite some progress made by several cities from 1995-2005, the average graduation rate of the 50 largest cities is well below the nati…
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On May 12, the United States House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee held a hearing to examine how policies for addressing the high school dropout crisis and improving graduation rates can strengthen America’s economic competitiveness. America’s Promise Alliance President and CEO M…
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The brief, Prioritizing the Nation’s Dropout Factories: The Need for Federal Policy That Targets the Lowest-Performing High Schools, calls on federal lawmakers to take every available opportunity to address this issue. It specifically cites three upcoming opportunities to address this national pr…
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There is a high school dropout epidemic in America. Annually, almost one third of all public high school students – and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans – fail to graduate with their
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The Harvard Family Research Project recently released Strengthening Out-Of-School Time Nonprofits: The Role of Foundations in Building Organizational Capacity.
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WASHINGTON , DC – America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance) today announced the release of Grad Nation, a first-of-its-kind research-based toolkit for communities seeking to reduce their dropout rate and better support young people through high school graduation and beyond. With more …
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Out-of-school time (OST) programs are increasingly expected to be of high enough quality to produce real benefits for children, but until now there has been little information on what such quality programming
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How to Promote Gender Equity in Career and Technical Education: A Primer for Schools is a brief by the National Women's Law Center that is part of a series of tools to help schools address the dropout crisis. Girls are
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Washington, DC – America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance) today announced that Carmita P. Vaughan, former Chief of Staff of Chicago Public Schools’ Office of High Schools and High School Programs, has been named Chief Strategy Officer beginning April 1.
“Having helped lead one of the na…
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President Obama Outlines Plans to Combat America’s Dropout Crisis and Improve Secondary Education So More Students are Prepared for College and Career
WASHINGTON, DC – America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance) today unveiled the next phase of their success…
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Despite recent high school reform efforts, the dropout problem in the United States remains daunting. To address this troubling issue that affects all states, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) recently announced it has selected six states – Colorado, Massac…
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America’s Promise Alliance Chair Alma Powell Announces Nationwide ‘Dropout Prevention Summits’; General Colin Powell Says Dropout Crisis Affects Economy and National Security
WASHINGTON, DC – A report to be released today finds that only about half of all student…
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To combat the alarming high school dropout rate among American students, AT&T and America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance) today announced a $1 million contribution to fund a re-granting initiative led by the Alliance that will provide young people nationwide with the opportunity to deve…
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