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GradNation Leaders Urge DeVos to Monitor Potential High School Graduation Rate “Loophole” Under Every Student Succeeds Act

April 10, 2017

As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low-income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Attendance

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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

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

We Need You! Enlisting Allies for Your Attendance Campaign

September 03, 2014

A Sneak Preview Inside this Resource What Community Schools Can Do to Reduce Chronic Absence: Offer a philosophy of working in partnership to address holistic needs of students and families Create a network of supports that ensure good attendance as part of a vision for academic success, family self-sufficiency, and economic prosperity Have the advantage of pre-existing partnerships already in place between schools, community- based organizations and other groups 

Type: Resource

TAG: Using Data

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Attendance, College & Career, Family Engagement

SOURCE: Attendance Works

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

Middle School Leadership Program

April 14, 2014

Middle School Leadership Program is a leadership workshop that meets weekly. The program targets eighth graders with poor grades in math and English and high absenteeism who are at-risk for dropping out of school. The workshops are aimed at improving communication skills, facilitating school engagement and easing the transition into high school. An experimental evaluation of the program found it to lack significant impacts on pregnancy in the past year.

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Family Engagement

SOURCE: Child Trends

Early Intervention Program

April 14, 2014

Early Intervention Program is a skills program for middle school aged students who are behind a grade level, who have low test scores, or high absenteeism. In addition to providing daily skill building class, it also provides counseling. An experimental evaluation of the program found significant impacts in year two and year three for highest grade completed. The program had significant negative impacts on females getting pregnant during the previous year in year two, and ever being employed in year three.

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Attendance, Health and Wellness, Mentoring

SOURCE: Child Trends

A Profile of the Evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Program

January 15, 2014

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of America is a national mentoring program that matches at-risk youth (“Littles”) with older volunteer mentors (“Bigs”). The BBBS approach does not target or address any particular aspects of academics, prevention, or risk, but rather emphasizes continuity and consistency in mentor relationships.

Type: Resource

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, 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

A Profile of the Evaluation of Generacion Diez

January 15, 2014

Generacion Diez (G-10) is an after school program in Adams County, Pennsylvania, that aims to address major problems affecting the growing Latino migrant community in the area. Specifically, the program’s goals are to (a) reduce school failure and absences in migrant children, (b) improve children’s study and social skills and promote social-emotional competence, (c) provide migrant parents with instrumental and social support and improved access to social service resources, and (d) increase parent–teacher involvement and cooperation.

Type: Resource

TAG: Hispanic/Latino

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Family Engagement, Social and Emotional Learning, Attendance

SOURCE: Harvard Family Research Project