About
America’s Promise Alliance launched the Grad Nation campaign in 2010, building on 105 Dropout Prevention Summits we convened across the country to raise awareness and inspire action. Grad Nation is now a large and growing movement of dedicated individuals, organizations and communities working together to end America’s dropout crisis.
Dropout Crisis Facts
The national high school graduation rate is 75 percent. Currently, one in four students drops out before he/she finishes high school. That’s one every 26 seconds or more than one million students a year.
Building a Grad Nation Report
The 2012 report update of
Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic was released in March 2012 by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University. The report shows that we can end the dropout epidemic.
Building a Grad Nation Summit
The second annual Building a Grad Nation Summit took place March 18-21, 2012 in Washington, D.C. The event was co-hosted by America's Promise Alliance, the Alliance for Excellent Education, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University to inspire a national movement to reach our goal of a 90 percent national graduation rate by 2020.
Graduation Rate Indicators
As we advance toward our overall Grad Nation goal of raising high school graduation rates, we also will gauge our progress along the way. In consultation with the U.S. Department of Education, we will track ten measures that research has proven predict student success.
Tools and Reports
We recommend reveiwing the following materials to gain more understanding about the dropout crisis and graduation rates, nationally and in your local area.