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What's In A Name?

June 10, 2014

It’s been more than 400 years since Shakespeare pondered that question in Romeo and Juliet, yet it continues to have an unexpected resonance in public education today. If you need proof, just take a look at “Don’t Call Them Dropouts,” a major new study from America’s Promise Alliance and its Center for Promise at Tufts University.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

5 Questions for…John Gomperts, President and CEO, America’s Promise Alliance

May 28, 2014

According to Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic 2014, a report published in April by America's Promise Alliance and its partners, the four-year high school graduation rate in the United States reached 80 percent for the first time ever in 2012. But while the overall rate is on track to reach the 90 percent goal set by the alliance's Building a GradNation Campaign, the report notes the troubling persistence of achievement gaps for low-income students and students of color.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Youth Involvement

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

May 27, 2014

It’s just a week since we released the “Don’t Call them Dropouts” report.  The response has been enthusiastic – lots of visits to the webpage, downloads of the full report, views of the video.  We are pleased, and we thank you.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Mini-documentary brings to life voices of youth that power “Don’t Call Them Dropouts” report

May 23, 2014

Don't Call Them Dropouts isn’t only a research project. It is a story. It’s a story we have been eager to tell, and one that has been more than a year in the making. As a researcher, my job is to document, describe, and estimate what goes on in the world. But, not much analysis is needed when you can hear directly from young people what they need in life and what they can offer to themselves, their families, and their communities.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

GradNation Report Confirms 80 percent High School Graduation Rate, Highest in U.S. History

April 28, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. (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 report released today by Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Center for Promise

Press Release Type: Press Release

Building a GradNation: Four-Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rates (ACGR) By State and Subgroup, 2011-2012 (Appendix E)

April 28, 2014

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

channels: Thriving

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

Scholarships awarded to youth to attend GradNation Summit

April 14, 2014

Each year America’s Promise provides scholarships to young people to attend the Building a GradNation Summit. This year more than 200 young people applied! While we are only able to offer scholarships to a fraction of them, you can read many of their stories at GradNation.org. Congratulations to the young people attending the Summit list below. We look forward to welcoming you at the Summit! (The individual stories have been removed)

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Sweet news in high school graduation statistics

February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine’s Day from America’s Promise! While this news doesn’t come with a box of chocolates, it is sweet nonetheless.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

ReadyNation responds to recent Wall Street Journal op-ed on pre-k

November 04, 2013

In contrast to the October 16 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (“The 'Universal Pre-K' Fallacy: Free school for 4-year-olds? Sounds great. Too bad it is of no educational value and the cost would be staggering”), more than 360 companies and business leaders across 44 states have signed on to ReadyNation’s Open Letter endorsing the educational and economic benefits of high quality early learning programs, especially for disadvantaged children.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Effective Education

Public media plays important role in dropout crisis

October 01, 2013

Through American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen initiative, stations have engaged with over 1,000 businesses, schools, faith-based and other nonprofits to help young people stay on the path to a high school diploma and graduate with their peers.

Type: News

TAG: Grad Rate Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign