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Community Leader Spotlight with the Mobile Area Education Foundation

August 29, 2018

“Good is not great, and greatness is an expectation.” 

Type: News

TAG: STEM, Using Data, College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, National Alliance

Action Platform: Pathways

Get Involved in the Fight Against Chronic Absence

August 21, 2018

When students aren’t in school, they miss out on important developmental and educational opportunities. For Attendance Awareness Month this September, advocates encourage communities across the country to band together to fight chronic absence.

Type: News

TAG: Using Data, Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, National Alliance, Every School Healthy

Action Platform: Central Georgia Technical College Foundation 

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

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

Action Platform: Youth Re-Engagement

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

Convener and Catalyst: Community Leader Spotlight with the Mayor’s Office for Children, Youth, and Families

December 12, 2017

Mindy Sturm serves as the director of the Mayor’s Office for Children, Youth, and Families (MOCYF) in Charleston, South Carolina. MOCYF focuses on improving the conditions for children, mobilizing resources in the community to work on their behalf, and developing strategies to support children, youth and families.

Type: News

TAG: Using Data

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League

What’s Working: Four Ways Policymakers Can Use Data to Improve Schools

July 26, 2017

Along with spotlighting states that can serve as examples to the rest of the country, Time to Act 2017: Put Data in the Hands of the People challenges leaders in education agencies, state boards, legislatures, and governors to prioritize the effective use of data in the following four ways.

Type: News

TAG: Using Data, Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Central Georgia Technical College Foundation 

What’s Working: In Chicago, Smart Use of Data Works to Get More Young People ‘To&Through’ College

March 13, 2017

This article is part of the “What’s Working” series, which highlights promising practices for helping to close the graduation gap in communities and states across the country. When Gregory Jones took over in 2012 as principal of Kenwood Academy, an 1800-student high school on Chicago’s south side, its students were completing high school at a higher rate than the citywide average—yet almost a third of them were failing to graduate.

Type: News

TAG: Using Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Central Georgia Technical College Foundation 

What’s Working: How Five Governors Plan to Raise High School Graduation Rates

February 22, 2017

Raising high school graduation rates, research shows, is one of the best investments a state can make in K-12 education. So how many governors are taking it seriously?

Type: News

TAG: Using Data, College and Career Readiness, College Gap

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Boston Summit Explores How SEL Can Raise Grad Rates for Low-Income Students

December 07, 2016

With a current graduation rate of 87.3 percent, Massachusetts’ on-time high school graduation rate is higher than the national average. However, the same can’t be said for students from low-income families. “Only 69.5 percent of low- income students in Massachusetts graduate on time, compared with 76 percent of low-income students in the United States,” United Way’s Karley Ausiello wrote in Boston Business Journal.

Type: News

TAG: Low-Income, Using Data

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Community Summits, GradNation Campaign