About
The Everyone Graduates Center
The mission of the Everyone Graduates Center is to develop and disseminate the know-how required to enable all students to graduate from high school prepared for college, career, and civic life. Through a systematic and comprehensive approach, EGC combines analysis of the causes, location, and consequences of the nation’s dropout crisis with the development of tools and models designed to keep all students on the path to high school graduation, and capacity building efforts to enable states, communities, school districts, and schools to provide all their students with the supports they need to succeed.
The Everyone Graduate Center seeks to identify the barriers that stand in the way of all students graduating from high school prepared for adult success, to develop strategic solutions to overcome the barriers, and to build local capacity to implement and sustain them.
EGC is located in the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University.
Letter from the Directors
In our 2003 report, Locating the Dropout Crisis, we called on readers to imagine a nation in which all students routinely graduate from high school ready and prepared to succeed in college, career and civic life. We also mapped the chasm between that image and the harsh reality in the fifth of our public high schools that produce half our nation’s dropouts, and in the failure of many more “achievement gap” high schools to meet the learning needs of low income and minority youth.
Photo by Will Kirk