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New In-Depth Analysis of High School Graduation Rates Reveals Progress Is Real, But Slowing, Indicating Urgency to Double Down on Equity Gaps

June 11, 2019

The ‘Building a Grad Nation’ Report’s First-Ever Secondary School Improvement Index Shows More Than Two Thirds of States Have Increased Graduation Rates and Other Measures Of Academic Achievement, Mitigating Concerns Around Diminished Graduation Standards

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

channels: Grad Rate Data

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

High School Grad Rate Shows First Sign of Stagnation, Should Serve as ‘Wake Up’ Call to the Nation

January 24, 2019

As Department of Education reports the lowest increase in 6 years, national education advocates urge leaders across the nation to take action.

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education

channels: Grad Rate Data

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Luego de 15 años de avances, por primera vez ningún estado está por debajo del 71 por ciento, lo cual es muestra del progreso hacia el aumento de la tasa nacional de graduación de escuela secundaria

June 05, 2018

El informe Grad Nation destaca los avances y los desafíos a los que se enfrentan importantes subgrupos de estudiantes y las escuelas con bajas tasas de graduación en la nueva era ESSA Examina las conexiones entre la educación secundaria y la postsecundaria en momentos en que la nación sigue en riesgo de no alcanzar sus objetivos

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education

channels: Grad Rate Data

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

America’s Promise Alliance and AT&T Announce GradNation Acceleration Grant Recipients in Five States

February 06, 2018

America’s Promise Alliance, with generous support from AT&T, announced today the selection of five states and communities as GradNation Acceleration Grant recipients, as part of the GradNation campaign to raise the high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020. The chosen grantees represent programs whose efforts are focused on accelerating progress for more young people to high school graduation and post-secondary success.

Type: Press Release

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start, Caring Adults

channels: Grad Rate Data

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation State Activation, GradNation Campaign

Closing the Graduation Gap: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates in Indiana

November 27, 2017

In 2015, Indiana had both the highest high school graduation rates of any state in the nation at 87.1 percent, and the narrowest graduation gap—4.5 percentage points—between low-income and non-low-income students. This happened in a state in which well more than one-third of the cohort of students were low-income. Indiana was also in the top five states for closing the graduation gap between all and low-income students from 2011 to 2015.

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Civic

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Paper Thin? Why All High School Diplomas Are Not Created Equal

July 27, 2017

Paper Thin? Why All High School Diplomas Are Not Created Equal provides a state-by-state analysis of the different types of diplomas that states awarded to the Class of 2014 and the impact on traditionally underserved students.

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Alliance for Excellent Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

I Came Here to Learn

May 11, 2017

Students whose First Language is Not English (FLNE) make up the fastest growing segment of public school students across the country. In Massachusetts, one in five students is classified as FLNE. This report explores their experiences, challenges, and hopes for the future.

Type: Report

TAG: Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations, Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

2017 Building a Grad Nation Report

May 03, 2017

Type: Report

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance, Alliance for Excellent Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

GradNation Leaders Urge DeVos to Monitor Potential High School Graduation Rate “Loophole” Under Every Student Succeeds Act

April 10, 2017

As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low-income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Attendance

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment

December 07, 2016

As the United States' advantage in educational attainment continues to decline, Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University joined together to release Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment.

Type: Report

TAG: College Gap, College and Career Readiness, GPA

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Attendance, College & Career

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign