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College Know-How
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Joanna H. Fox
College Know How is a three-year initiative to develop and pilot curricula supporting high school students’ transition from high school into college. The project also is piloting a professional development…
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An Early Warning System
Written by
Robert Balfanz, Ruth Curran Neild, and Liza Herzog
This article for practitioners summarizes work by Everyone Graduates researchers on early indicators of dropout. We note that high school dropout often has been viewed as an event that is…
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Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC)
The Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) is a partnership between Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and the Baltimore City Public School System to enhance Baltimore’s capacity to conduct strategic…
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The Graduation Gap: Using Promoting Power to Examine the Number and Characteristics of High Schools with High and Low Graduation Rates in the Nation and Each State
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters
CSOS Policy Brief | January 2005 The Graduation Gap: Using Promoting Power to Examine the Number and Characteristics of High Schools with High and Low Graduation Rates in the Nation…
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U.S. meeting its challenge on dropouts
Written by
Robert Balfanz and John Bridgeland
Columbia Daily Tribune | February 17, 2009 Good news is rare these days. Home foreclosures, a credit crunch and rising joblessness have sent ripples of fear through the U.S. economy.…
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Volunteering to get tomorrow's dropouts on track
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Michael Brown
Boston Globe | September 9, 2008 MILLIONS OF American students are back in high school, and before the year is done more than 1.1 million will drop out. In many…
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Making High Expectations Real in All Our High Schools
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters
Baltimore Examiner | January 18, 2007 There is little disagreement about what we want from our public high schools. We want them to graduate all their students prepared for success…
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A plan to fix 'dropout factories'
Written by
Robert Balfanz, John Bridgeland
The Christian Science Monitor | November 23, 2007 More students will stay if school is harder, safer, and more relevant.
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The Graduation Rate Crisis We Know and What Can be Done About It
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters
Education Week Commentary | July 12, 2006 The debate over how best to measure the nation’s Graduation Rate is important. We need to know who graduates and who does not.…
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Preventing Student Disengagement
Written by
Robert Balfanz, Lisa Herzog, Douglas J. Mac Iver
This article considers the practical, conceptual, and empirical foundations of an early identification and intervention system for middle-grades schools to combat student disengagement and increase graduation rates in our nation’s…
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Locating the Dropout Crisis
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters
Approximately 15% of the nation’s high schools produce more than half of its dropouts and close to 75% of its minority dropouts. Half of these schools are found primarily in…
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Grad Nation
Written by
Robert Balfanz, Joanna Hornig Fox, John M. Bridgeland, & Mary McNaught
Grad Nation is a guidebook 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…
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Raising Graduation Rates: A Series of Data Briefs Progress Toward Increasing National and State Graduation Rates
Written by
Robert Balfanz and Chris West
This is the first in a series of briefs examining the progress in raising high school graduation rates over the past decade. During this period, the prevailing view on high…
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