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BERC: College Access in Baltimore, A Decade of College-Going Among City Schools Graduates
(2023)This report summarizes trends in college-related outcomes among Baltimore City Public School’s (City Schools) graduates over a ten-year timespan, from 2011 to 2020. The data presented centers on core activities in accessing ... -
Insights from a Pandemic: Reflections from the On Track to Career Success Project
(2023-03)After extensive planning and work building multiple partnerships, the On Track to Career Success (OTCS) project was launched in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and New Orleans, Louisiana in early 2020. The OTCS project works with ... -
Diplomas Now: Findings from the First Decade and What's Next
(2017-02)How an evidence-based, collaborative, whole-school improvement model, leveraging AmeriCorps members and early warning systems, can accelerate student and school success in the highest-need schools. -
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, 2018-2019 Annual Update
(2019-09)The 2019 annual update to the nation includes three new features: a Secondary School Improvement Index; a focus on homeless students with graduation rate data available for the first time from 26 states, together with a ... -
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2017-2018 Annual Update
(2018-09)High school graduation rates help us better understand how states, schools, and districts across the country are doing at graduating their students, bringing about more equitable outcomes for students facing the greatest ... -
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 ... -
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2015-2016 Annual Update
(2016-09)The report is based on the most recent comprehensive data from the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education (2013-14). The 2016 report provides a new national and state-by-state examination ... -
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2014-2015 Annual Update
(2015-09)This sixth annual report to the nation highlights the significant progress that has been made, but also the serious challenges that remain – closing gaping graduation gaps between various student populations; tackling the ... -
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2013-2014 Annual Update
(2014-09)This fifth annual update on America’s high school dropout crisis shows that, for the first time in history, the nation has crossed the 80 percent high school graduation rate threshold and remains on pace, for the second ... -
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2012-2013 Annual Update
(2013-09)This fourth annual update on America’s high school dropout crisis shows that for the first time the nation is on track to meet the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by the Class of 2020—if the pace of ... -
Grad Nation: Building a Grad Nation, Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, 2011-2012 Annual Update
(2012-09)This 2011-2012 Grad Nation Annual Update report shows that high school graduation rates continue to improve nationally and across many states and school districts, with 12 states accounting for the majority of new graduates ... -
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: 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: 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. -
CRESPAR Report #71: Toward a Policy Framework for Analyzing Educational System Effects
(2004-11)School reform efforts over the last two decades have become increasingly more complex and systemic. Yet, studies that have as their primary purpose identifying and understanding the function of linkages in school reform ... -
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 #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 #68: Building on Children's Cultural Assets in Simulated Classroom Performance Environments: Research Vistas in the Communal Learning Paradigm
(2004-02)The achievement gap between low-income African American students and their White counterparts remains substantial. To address this, researchers have begun to examine the impact of culture on cognitive performance among ...
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