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School Bullying and Academic Achievement
School Bullying Linked to Poorer Academic Achievement A Reuters Health article by Carolyn Crist states, “Not only does bullying at school affect students’ emotional and social lives, it also directly affects their schoolwork and engagement in the classroom, suggests a U.S. study.” Read the full article. Dr. Robert Balfanz, Ph.D., director of the Everyone Graduates Center […]
Diplomas Now recognized by Arne Duncan as an innovative community partnership
Arne Duncan, Former Secretary of Education from 2009 – 2015, gives a shout out to Diplomas Now as an “innovative community partnership” in his article Arne Duncan: Obama Should Focus On Our Kids on TIME. “We’ve made further progress by investing in innovative community partnerships like Diplomas Now, which help schools track student attendance, grades and behavioral […]
Building on Progress in East Baton Rouge
Here in Louisiana, 75 percent of students in the class of 2014 (the latest year for which the data are available) graduated high school, up from 71 percent just three years ago. The numbers for East Baton Rouge Parish are lower, at 66 percent, up from 63 percent in 2011. We are making progress in […]
Stop Holding Us Back
This month, more than three million high school students will receive their diplomas. At more than 80 percent, America’s graduation rate is at a record high. More kids are going to college, too. But one-third of the nation’s African-American and Latino young men will not graduate. In an era when there is virtually no legal […]
Seattle Times Highlights Middle Schools and Diplomas Now
The Seattle Times, winner of nine Pulitzer Prizes, focused today on the Diplomas Now partnership with two middle schools in Seattle. We are proud to be a part of these success stories. EDUCATION LAB: Missing just a few days of class in sixth grade can predict whether you’ll graduate from high school. That research powers […]
CNN Op/Ed: What You Won’t Hear at Graduation
(CNN) — Graduation season is in full swing, bringing with it a lot of discussion about life and opportunity. Inevitably there will be news stories about graduation ceremonies or a new YouTube video sensation focusing on commencement words of wisdom. While inspiring, those stories never give a full portrait of this rite of passage in […]
The Columbus Dispatch features Graduation-Like ceremony with Diplomas Now
It looked like a graduation ceremony. It felt like one, too, with the stage filled with dignitaries, a keynote speaker and “Class of 2016” T-shirts rolled and tied just like diplomas. But these were high-school freshmen. Linden-McKinley STEM Academy celebrated yesterday because 130 freshmen earned enough credits to move on to 10th grade. That means […]
How ‘early warning systems’ are keeping kids in school
Washington Post blog The Answer Sheet The recent news that only 58 percent of Washington D.C. high school students graduated on time last year is a call to action. The nation’s capital has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country. The new statistic, based on a new more rigorous way of counting dropouts, […]
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