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In Roughly 1,300 High Schools Across America, On-Time Graduation Still Elusive

October 04, 2018

After more than a decade of progress in improving high school graduation rates, there remain about 1,300 traditional high schools in need of serious improvement and redesign, according to new research from the GradNation campaign. Among them are more than 800 low-graduation-rate high schools with an average graduation rate of 49 percent.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Low-Income, Hispanic/Latino, Rural

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

Great American High School: Reforming the Nation’s Remaining Low-Performing High Schools

October 04, 2018

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Low-Income, Hispanic/Latino, Rural

promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

I Was a Homeless Student and School Helped Me Find My Way Home

July 10, 2018

I first experienced homelessness with my family, then on my own. I was born to a single mother and a father who was absent because of post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after the war. Throughout my childhood, my mother, two sisters and I moved from home to home, sometimes not having one at all.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Homeless Youth, Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Voice: Homelessness

Youth Share Three Ways to Fight Homelessness

June 26, 2018

What should teachers do if they suspect a student might be homeless? What about non-educators? Better yet, what can governors and legislators do to fight youth homelessness on a broad scale in their states and communities?

Type: News

TAG: Special Populations, Homeless Youth

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Voice: Homelessness

Leaders Tackle Challenges, Solutions in Latest Building a Grad Nation Report

June 14, 2018

In 2001, the national high school graduation rate stood at 71 percent. Today, no state in the nation has a high school graduation rate below that number, according to the latest Building a Grad Nation report.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Students with Disabilities, Homeless Youth, English Learners, Low-Income

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

2018 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

June 05, 2018

Authored by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, and released annually in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education and America’s Promise Alliance, the Building a Grad Nation report examines both progress and challenges toward reaching the GradNation campaign goal of a national on-time graduation rate of 90 percent. AT&T, lead sponsor, has supported the report series since its inception through AT&T Aspire, the company’s $400 million commitment since 2008 to graduate more students from high school ready for college and career.…

Type: Report

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Students with Disabilities, Homeless Youth, English Learners, Low-Income

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

For the First Time Ever, No State Is Reporting a Grad Rate Below 71 Percent, Says Grad Nation Report

June 05, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In 2001, the national high school graduation rate stood at 71 percent. Fifteen years later – and for the first time ever, no state in the nation has a high school graduation rate below 71 percent and there are now 39 states above 80 percent, a major milestone toward reaching the country’s goal of a 90 percent graduation rate, according to the latest Building a Grad Nation report.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Students with Disabilities, Low-Income, English Learners

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

The Economic Upside to Increasing Grad Rates

May 29, 2018

Importantly, the Alliance for Excellent Education maps the positive impacts that a 90 percent high school graduation rate would have on local economies, breaking the data down by state, metropolitan area, and demographic group so that it can be useful for local community leaders, policymakers, educators and parents.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Low-Income, Students with Disabilities

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Food for thought: Students’ test scores rise a few weeks after families get food stamps

March 27, 2018

Families receiving food stamps get their benefits once a month. A few weeks later, kids’ test scores tick up. The pattern, revealed by a new study of thousands of North Carolina families, suggests that the additional access to healthy food helps students do better in school.

Type: News

TAG: Low-Income, Family Engagement

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

A Two-Generation Approach

March 07, 2018

"Parents are their children’s first teacher,” NAZ President and CEO Sondra Samuels says. “An army of empowered parents are also the fuel needed to put pressure on systems to remove barriers to their families’ overall success and their children’s academic and life success."

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways, Early Childhood, Using Data, Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, College and Career Readiness, Low-Income

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others