The John W. Gardner Center has been tapped to help improve early warning systems that focus on college and career readiness.
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University has announced a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help school districts improve their high school graduation rates and college and career readiness efforts.
The grant will be used to develop College Readiness Indicator
Systems that schools can use to identify students in danger of dropping
out of high school or graduating unprepared for postsecondary education
or a job. According to leading researchers, attendance patterns, course
failures, suspensions, and other factors can be used to predict which
students are on track to graduate and which are not.
The Annenberg Institute will select up to six school districts or
networks nationwide to take part in the project. The sites will work
with the institute and the John W. Gardner Center
at Stanford University to expand and implement their early warning
systems to focus on college and career readiness. The grant also will
support semi-annual meetings among participants to encourage the
frequent sharing of information and best practices.
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