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Four Ways Indiana is Closing Its Graduation Gap for Low-income Students

December 05, 2017

When it comes to graduation rates, Indiana has some serious bragging rights. Not only did it have one of the highest high school graduation rates of any state in the country in 2015, it also reported the smallest graduation gap between low-income and non-low-income students—no easy feat, considering more than one-third of Indiana students come from low-income families. So how did they do it?

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Closing the Graduation Gap: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates in Indiana

November 27, 2017

In 2015, Indiana had both the highest high school graduation rates of any state in the nation at 87.1 percent, and the narrowest graduation gap—4.5 percentage points—between low-income and non-low-income students. This happened in a state in which well more than one-third of the cohort of students were low-income. Indiana was also in the top five states for closing the graduation gap between all and low-income students from 2011 to 2015.

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Civic

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

This October, American Graduate Day Will Look Beyond High School Graduation

September 27, 2017

For the last five years, American Graduate Day has emphasized the importance of high school graduation through telling stories, creating resources, and building community connections.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

Why Education and Business Should Work Together

August 18, 2017

What does it take to guarantee that the next generation of future leaders are prepared, inspired, and primed for success? While there is no particular pathway to success, the key is to begin building the talent pipeline early—when students are still in high school.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

Paper Thin? Why All High School Diplomas Are Not Created Equal

July 27, 2017

Paper Thin? Why All High School Diplomas Are Not Created Equal provides a state-by-state analysis of the different types of diplomas that states awarded to the Class of 2014 and the impact on traditionally underserved students.

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Alliance for Excellent Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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 

Four College Students Share What it Was Like to be Homeless—and What they Learned from It

June 07, 2017

The four students quoted in this story come from states across the country, but they all have two things in common: First, they used to be homeless. Second, they found a way to graduate high school and enroll in college anyway.

Type: News

TAG: Homeless Youth, Grad Rate Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

2017 Building a Grad Nation Report

May 03, 2017

Type: Report

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education, A Healthy Start

channels: Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, America's Promise Alliance, Alliance for Excellent Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

A Year of AmeriCorps: Change is Possible

January 23, 2017

Eliminating poverty and raising the high school graduation rate to 90 percent — these two goals are daunting. However, they’re the goals of the GradMinnesota initiative, as well as goals I am committed to working toward over the next seven months.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation State Activation, GradNation Campaign

Milwaukee summit charges students to be change-makers—and for adults not to stand in their way

January 18, 2017

Much of the day’s conversation stemmed from the idea that young people have all the intelligence, creativity, and drive they need to be successful—unfortunately, adults (and society at large) often limit this independence or otherwise fail to provide the support that young people need to develop their own potential.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation Community Summits