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Must be Present to Win: How Local Communities Can Encourage Student Attendance in September

September 04, 2014

Attendance Awareness Month is in September, but it’s never too early to start gathering your team. While most efforts begin naturally and logically with parents and school leaders, there are a number of other powerful allies who can play key roles and give a big boost to Attendance Awareness Month this fall.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places

channels: Attendance

SOURCE: Attendance Works, Civic, The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading

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

A Profile of the Evaluation of After School Education and Safety Program—Santa Ana California

January 15, 2014

The Santa Ana Unified School District in Southern California received renewable 3-year funding from the State of California to operate the After School Education and Safety Program in four urban public middle schools.

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Safe Places, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Expanded Learning Time, Mentoring

SOURCE: Harvard Family Research Project

A Profile of the Evaluation of Boys & Girls Clubs of America

January 15, 2014

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) provides fun, safe places for youth during out-of-school hours, where they can be involved in caring relationships with adults and peers and feel a sense of membership and connectedness. BGCA provides varied and diverse programming supported by caring staff.

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Expanded Learning Time, Family Engagement, Mentoring, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Harvard Family Research Project

Strong African American Families Program

January 15, 2014

The Strong African American Families (SAAF) project is a 7-week interactive educational program for African American parents and their early adolescent children. The intervention program is based on an empirical model of the processes linked to psychological adjustment, substance use and high-risk behavior in rural African American youth. Early adolescence is the period in which children gain increasing control over their behavior, begin forming friendships based on similarities and common interests, and develop attitudes toward substances and substance use.

Type: Resource

TAG: Black/African-American, Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places

channels: Attendance, Youth Involvement, Family Engagement

SOURCE: Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

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

Big Brothers Big Sisters Community-based Mentoring

June 10, 2013

Big Brothers Big Sisters Community-based Mentoring, an intensive community-based Mentoring Program for at-risk children, had a positive impact on skipping class or school and scholastic competence, but not on GPA or number of books read. It also had a positive impact on likelihood of initiating drug use, but no impact on the likelihood of initiating alcohol use. It also had a positive impact on the parental relationship, but no impact on several measures related to peer relationships. It also had no impact on global self-worth, social acceptance, or self-confidence.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places

channels: Mentoring, Attendance

SOURCE: Child Trends