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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

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

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

Don’t Quit on Me

September 06, 2015

This report examines, from the perspective of young people themselves, the roles that relationships with adults and peers play in decisions about staying in, leaving and returning to high school.

Type: Report

TAG: Career Pathways

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

channels: Attendance, College & Career, Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign