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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
Authored by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, and released annually in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education and America’s Promise Alliance, the Building a Grad Nation report examines both progress and challenges toward reaching the GradNation campaign goal of a national on-time graduation rate of 90 percent by the Class of 2020.
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Featured Resources
Achieving a 90 Percent Graduation Rate Webinar: Making Effective Work-Based Learning Real for All Students
April 24, 2019
hear from Urban Alliance, which provides underserved high school seniors with training, internships, & mentoring that build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills they need to succeed in…
2018 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
June 05, 2018
Authored by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, and released annually in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education and America’s Promise…
Youth Voices
Putting the lives of young people at the heart of its research
The Center for Promise is the research institute for America's Promise Alliance dedicated to understanding what young people need to thrive and how to create the conditions of success for all young people. It is housed at the Boston University School of Education. The Center provides research that supports the GradNation campaign, including studies of the youth who leave high school without graduating, the barriers they face reconnecting with educational settings, the role of relationships is their lives, and the characteristics of the settings that help them persist to high school graduation and beyond.
High School Graduation Facts: Ending the Dropout Crisis
Here are some facts on high school graduation rates based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education and other sources noted below.
GradNation Community Guidebook
While our country is making progress toward the GradNation goal of a 90 percent graduation rate by 2020, much work remains to get all young people on the path to adult success. To help communities reach that goal, America’s Promise Alliance has updated the successful GradNation Community Guidebook, a research-based toolkit that provides guidance and resources to people and organizations working to raise graduation rates and better support children and youth.
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America’s Promise Alliance has a curated, diverse and searchable collection of resources and data about children and youth.
Events
America’s Promise hosts a number of online and offline events to help those working to end the dropout crisis connect and do their best work.
These events include...
- Online webinars
- Twitter chats
- Networking breakfasts
- Panel discussions with ed
- Research briefings
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