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Seven Questions About Title IX, Answered

July 12, 2018

Although sexual misconduct remains alarmingly pervasive in K-12 education, many schools, students, parents, and organizations aren’t aware of their responsibilities and individuals’ rights under Title IX. Here’s an overview on how Title IX applies to K-12 programs.

Type: News

TAG: Safe Schools

promises: Safe Places, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Nuevo informe destaca la forma en que la disciplina excluyente hace que los estudiantes se desvinculen de la escuela

July 11, 2018

Una investigación de Center for Promise arroja luz sobre las voces y experiencias de jóvenes afectados por la disciplina excluyente, la forma en que tales prácticas generan sentimientos y conductas de desvinculación, y la importancia de explorar sanciones no excluyentes con miras a obtener mejores resultados

Type: Press Release

TAG: School Discipline, Safe Schools

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Center for Promise

Disciplined and Disconnected

July 11, 2018

Type: Report

TAG: School Discipline

promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, Center for Promise

New Report Highlights How Exclusionary Discipline Leads Students to Disconnect from School

July 11, 2018

Harsh school discipline policies and practices are leading students—particularly students of color and students with disabilities—to disconnect from school, according to a new report from the Center for Promise, the research institute of America’s Promise Alliance.

Type: Press Release

TAG: School Discipline

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, Center for Promise

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

High School Students Get a Jump on College in Baltimore

June 26, 2018

All his life, Anthony Lloyd was told that he wouldn’t graduate high school. “Teachers, principals, just people everybody thought I was going to fail and end up in the streets. It was told to me so much I almost believed it.”

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation State Activation, GradNation Campaign

Community Leader Spotlight: Citizens for Educational Excellence

June 18, 2018

Dr. Janet M. Cunningham believes that, “as educators we should encourage all students to find their strengths, pursue post-secondary education, and utilize their strengths in finding a satisfying career.”

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways, Literacy, College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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

What’s Working: Linked Learning’s Pathway to Success for Students

June 13, 2018

Linked Learning started in California but a similar approach is now used in schools across the country…which emphasizes technical instruction, work-based learning, and wrap-around support services to help students stay on track.

Type: News

TAG: College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign