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Attendance Awareness toolkit and resources available now
April 19, 2013
America's Promise has joined a partnership working to recognize September as Attendance Awareness Month, and recently helped release a toolkit to help schools and communities start planning for September's activities. This is a great resource for your community! If you missed the April 9 webinar, there is a recording available as well as video describing how chronic absence has become a crisis in our schools and providing concrete examples of how communities are turning around poor attendance. The video can be used to motivate community members and partners to participate in planning and…
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Safe Places
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign
Research reveals U.S. is on track to meet goal of 90 percent national high school graduation rate by 2020
March 19, 2013
The nation’s work to improve graduation rates took a significant leap forward according to a report released today by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. The most comprehensive graduation research report of late found that for the first time the U.S.
Type: News
TAG: Using Data, Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Center for Promise
New research reveals U.S. is on track to meet goal of 90 percent national high school graduation rate by 2020
February 28, 2013
The nation’s work to improve graduation rates took a significant leap forward according to a report released by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. The most comprehensive graduation research report of late found that for the first time the U.S. is on track to meet the national Grad Nation goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the class of 2020.
Type: News
TAG: Using Data, Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education
campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign
New research reveals for the first time U.S. is on track to meet goal of 90 percent national high school graduation rate by 2020
February 25, 2013
The nation’s work to improve graduation rates took a significant leap forward according to a report released today by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education. The most comprehensive graduation research report of late found that for the first time the U.S. is on track to meet the national Grad Nation goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the class of 2020.
Type: News
TAG: Using Data, Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education
campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign
Grad Nation Summit inspires more than 1,000 in the fight to end the high school dropout crisis
March 29, 2012
The second annual Building a Grad Nation Summit recently convened in Washington, D.C., where more than 1,000 education stakeholders gathered to discuss challenges and solutions to ending America’s high school dropout crisis. Among the attendees were more than 150 youth leaders who participated in a youth-only preconference on March 18 to share their ideas and role in dropout prevention. The Summit was hosted by America’s Promise Alliance, Alliance for Excellent Education, Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center and featured the release of the latest report on the state of high…
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign
Grad Nation Communities attend Grad Nation Summit
March 29, 2012
America’s Promise Alliance sponsored teams from the almost 40 Grad Nation Communities to participate in the second annual Building a Grad Nation Summit. Grad Nation Communities are committed to working collaboratively across sectors to increase their local high school graduation rate. Attending the Summit allowed these communities the ability to network with one another, learn from Alliance partners, hear about the latest research from the field, and much more.
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign
Grad Nation Summit kicks off with power and energy of youth leaders
March 29, 2012
More than 120 young people attended the Building a Grad Nation Summit where they were involved as session attendees, speakers, panelists, planners and overall drivers of conversation. To ensure that young leaders had time to prepare for their experience and also have an opportunity to be among their peers, America’s Promise Alliance hosted a pre-conference on Sunday to kick start the networking, learning, and leadership of those aged 13-25. The five-hour session was planned and led exclusively by a group of 12 active young leaders from around the country that came together as the Summit…
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign
Grad Nation Summit kicks off with power and energy of youth leaders
March 22, 2012
More than 120 young people attended the Building a Grad Nation Summit where they were involved as session attendees, speakers, panelists, planners and overall drivers of conversation. To ensure that young leaders had time to prepare for their experience and also have an opportunity to be among their peers, America’s Promise Alliance hosted a pre-conference on Sunday to kick start the networking, learning, and leadership of those aged 13-25. The five-hour session was planned and led exclusively by a group of 12 active young leaders from around the country that came together as the Summit…
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign
State Farm’s ‘26 Seconds’ campaign to engage youth at risk of dropping out of high school
April 01, 2011
Every 26 seconds in America, a student drops out of high school. At the Building a Grad Nation Summit, State Farm announced the launch of a campaign to address this startling statistic and engage those who can most directly affect change – young people themselves. The campaign titled “26 Seconds,” will use interests – like music, sports and video – to engage youth. It will provide an online venue for youth to express feelings on the issue and creatively share thoughts and talents – encouraging them and their peers to make graduation a priority so they become more than a statistic. The…
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign
Building a Grad Nation Summit invigorates and equips attendees to move forward in dropout prevention efforts
March 25, 2011
The First Annual Building a Grad Nation Summit convened March 21-23 in the nation’s capital bringing together more than 800 education stakeholders to discuss solutions to the challenging high school dropout crisis in America. As part of America’s Promise Alliance’s 10-year Grad Nation campaign to mobilize Americans to end the dropout crisis, this annual event was co-hosted by the Alliance, Civic Enterprises, Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center and the Alliance for Excellent Education. In addition to a notable lineup of speakers from the Administration, public and private…
Type: News
TAG: Grad Rate Data
promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start
campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign