Communities are working together to improve 21st century learning and increase high school graduation rates to prepare more students for college and careers. Click here to read more about the American Graduate Initiative and what your community is doing to help.
See what students have to say about the recent drop out crisis.
Watch teacher interviews to hear what local teachers have to say about education.
See youth media made by our student reporters, and learn about the American Graduate Youth Voices project.
Go inside a school striving to meet the needs of its students on 180 Days and take a look at the connection between the juvenile justice system and dropout rates among teens with Tavis Smiley. Watch previews and learn more here.
Click the links below for statistical information regarding America’s dropout crisis.
• Each year, 1.3 million high school students drop out of school in the U.S. That’s one student dropping out every 26 seconds.
That means about 49,000 students, equaling half the population of Albany, drops out each week.
• General Sample and Analysis of High School Graduation Rates in our region
Times Union article, June 15, 2011
• Differentiated Sample of High School Graduation Rates in our region
Sampling by Race and Ethnicity based on NYS Education Department Statistics
• Overall, 22% of children who have lived in poverty do not graduate from high school compared to 6% of those (children) who have never been poor.
The dropout rate rises to 32% for students spending more than half their childhood in poverty.
• One in six children who are not reading proficiently by the third grade fails to graduate from high school on time.
The dropout rate for non-proficient readers in the third grade is four times the rate of children reaching proficiency.
• School to Prison Pipeline Statistics
On any given day, 1 in 10 young males, dropout, is in jail, or in juvenile detention. Nearly 1 of 4 black male dropouts is incarcerated or otherwise institutionalized and 60% of those who are incarcerated in federal prisons are high school dropouts.
• Additional Data Related to Poverty
Times Union, September 23, 2011: Albany Poverty Widens
Additional Data Related to High School Graduation Rates in NYS
• For all NYS students by school district and cohort
• By Economic Status
• By English Language Learner Status
• Overall by Subgroup for Schools and Districts
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