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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

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

Action Platform: Central Georgia Technical College Foundation 

Hidden in Plain Sight

June 13, 2016

This report examines the growing problem of student homelessness by interviewing and surveying currently and formerly homeless students and the state coordinators and local liaisons assigned to help them. Written by a team of researchers at Civic Enterprises, a public policy and strategy firm, in association with Hart Research Associates, the study was released by America’s Promise Alliance, a leader of the GradNation campaign.

Type: Report

TAG: Special Populations, Grad Rate Data, ESSA

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Mentoring

SOURCE: Civic

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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