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These Are Our Children

June 28, 2019

The heartbreaking photo of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his not-even-two-year old daughter, Valeria, made me want to simultaneously scream, envelop my own two young sons in a hug, and do something—anything—to help. Almost a year ago to the day, America’s Promise Alliance released a statement on the forced separation of children at the U.S. border. This image shows the appalling lack of progress we’ve made in a year.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Hispanic/Latino

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth

January 29, 2019

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth was authored by Shannon Varga, Max Margolius, Catalina Tang Yan, Anna Skubel, Marissa L. Cole, and Jonathan F. Zaff, at the Center for Promise. This research is part of GradNation State Activation, an initiative of the GradNation campaign to raise high school graduation rates to 90 percent. WestEd is one of three grant recipients for this national effort. Pearson is the sole sponsor of this study and its dissemination.

Type: Report

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Pearson, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

800 Schools. 18 States. One Major Call to Action.

October 29, 2018

About one in 10 high schools in America graduates 67 percent or less. In more than 800 of these schools, graduating is a 50-50 proposition for students. And on average, nearly three of every four students in these schools are students of color.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

In Roughly 1,300 High Schools Across America, On-Time Graduation Still Elusive

October 04, 2018

After more than a decade of progress in improving high school graduation rates, there remain about 1,300 traditional high schools in need of serious improvement and redesign, according to new research from the GradNation campaign. Among them are more than 800 low-graduation-rate high schools with an average graduation rate of 49 percent.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Low-Income, Hispanic/Latino, Rural

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

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

Youth Voice: Redefining the Meaning of Intervention

July 31, 2018

Harsh discipline practices focus on assigning guilt, but restorative justice works to identify why something happened and what the student and the community needs in order to move forward. It allows young people to be viewed as the holistic individuals they are, and it builds a better foundation to start conversations around relationship-building.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice, Special Populations, School Discipline

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

I Was a Homeless Student and School Helped Me Find My Way Home

July 10, 2018

I first experienced homelessness with my family, then on my own. I was born to a single mother and a father who was absent because of post-traumatic stress disorder he developed after the war. Throughout my childhood, my mother, two sisters and I moved from home to home, sometimes not having one at all.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Homeless Youth, Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Voice: Homelessness

What’s Working: Two Key Levers for Improving College Grad Rates

June 27, 2018

This public charter school in Chicago encourages students to do two things to increase their odds of graduating from college: Raise their GPAs and attend colleges with 50 percent or higher graduation rates for underrepresented minorities.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Youth Share Three Ways to Fight Homelessness

June 26, 2018

What should teachers do if they suspect a student might be homeless? What about non-educators? Better yet, what can governors and legislators do to fight youth homelessness on a broad scale in their states and communities?

Type: News

TAG: Special Populations, Homeless Youth

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Youth Voice: Homelessness

This Is Who We Are

June 21, 2018

As I have watched the news about the separation of families at the border, I can't help but think that this is a story that could have been my own. My parents both came to the United States as teenagers. My mom left El Salvador when she was 15 for the same reason most immigrants come to the United States—the American dream.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Hispanic/Latino

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start