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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

Building A GradNation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic (2014)

April 28, 2014

For the first time in U.S. history the nation’s high school graduation rate rose above 80 percent, according to the 2014 Building a GradNation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic report released April 28 by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. While more than eight in 10 public high school students are graduating on time, Building a GradNation shows more good news: the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade, students of color…

Type: Resource

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness, Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Health and Wellness

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Promise Academy

January 15, 2014

The Promise Academy is a charter middle school, serving predominantly low-income, minority students from grades six through eight.  The school opened in 2004 as one of the Harlem Children’s Zone programs to improve communities and schools in a 97-block area of Harlem, in New York City.  The school provides an extended school day and year, with coordinated after-school tutoring and additional Saturday classes for children struggling in math or English language arts.  As a result, students spend 50-100% more time in school per year than students in traditional public schools in New York City, de

Type: Resource

TAG: College and Career Readiness, Using Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places

channels: Attendance, College & Career, Expanded Learning Time, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy