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CRESPAR Report #69: Catching Up: Impact of the Talent Development Ninth Grade Instructional Interventions in Reading and Mathematics in High-Poverty High Schools
(2004-04)
Every child has the capacity to succeed in school and in life. Yet far too many children fail to meet their potential. Many students, especially those from poor and minority families, are placed at risk by school practices ...
CRESPAR Report #21: The Talent Development Middle School: An Elective Replacement Approach to Providing Extra Help in Math -- The CATAMA Program (Computer- and Team-Assisted Mathematics Acceleration)
(1998-07)
In Talent Development Middle Schools, students needing extra help in mathematics participate in the Computer- and Team-Assisted Mathematics Acceleration (CATAMA) course. CATAMA is an innovative combination of computer-assisted ...
CRESPAR Report #70: Locating the Dropout Crisis: Which High Schools Produce the Nation's Dropouts? Where are They Located? Who Attends Them?
(2004-09)
Fifty years after Brown vs. the Board of Education, the image of public high schools providing all youth with equal opportunity to receive a high-quality education remains inspiring and compelling. Current reality, however, ...
CRESPAR Report #15: Working Together to Become Proficient Readers: Early Impact of the Talent Development Middle School's Student Team Literature Program
(1997-08)
The Talent Development Middle School’s Student Team Literature (STL) program includes: (1) curricular materials designed to assist students study great literature; (2) recommended instructional practices, peer assistance ...
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic
(2010-11)
The central message of this report is that some states and school districts are raising their high school graduation rates with scalable solutions in our public schools, showing the nation we can end the high school dropout ...
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2010-2011 Annual Update
(2011-09)
This Grad Nation Campaign Annual Update report provides an update on the progress in implementing the Civic Marshall Plan and highlights the challenges that remain as our nation works to meet its goal. This report is the ...
Grad Nation: A Guidebook to Help Communities Tackle The Dropout Crisis
(2009-02)
Grad Nation Guidebook is for communities that seek to improve their high school graduation and college readiness rates. It provides detailed information and tools to support reforms and enable effective community action.
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2020-2021 Annual Update
(2021-09)
For over a decade, the GradNation campaign has focused the nation on improving high school graduation rates for all students to reach a 90 percent graduation rate equitably by 2020. Steady progress has been made, with 15 ...
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2019-2020 Annual Update
(2020-09)
The COVID-19 pandemic and protests against systemic racism have shaken the nation in recent months. While the data presented in this report for the 2017–18 school year predated these crises, these events have further ...
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2016-2017 Annual Update
(2017-09)
This year signifies two key milestones in the GradNation campaign to raise high school graduation rates. First, the release of the 2015 federal graduation rate data marks five years since states began reporting the Adjusted ...