Preventable Failure
CPS Graduation Rate Jumps 4% to Record High: Ninth Grade "On-Track" Focus Continues to Drive System-wide Improvements
AUGUST 26, 2014 – The city announced that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) posted a record high graduation rate of 69.4 percent, a 4 percent increase over the previous year and the largest two-year increase in the district's history.
Editorial: Stop Holding Us Back
Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins, cites the UChicago Consortium on Chicago School Research's pioneering work on on-track in an editorial reviewing how we can in fact solve the dropout crisis.
Editorial: Demand excellence of every city school
Mayor Emanuel and CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett cite the UChicago Consortium on Chicago School Research's new report on the impact of focusing on ninth-grade on-track.
CPS Kids "On-Track" to Graduate
As rates of CPS students on-track to graduate reach all-time highs, UEI director Tim Knowles discusses how UChicago CCSR's research and the focused work of CPS teachers and school leaders helped move an entire system.
Closer look: CPS graduation projections look better than ever
A closer look at Hancock, one of 20 schools studied in the new UChicago CCSR report showing a focus on ninth-grade yielded dramatic results, illustrates how CPS is achieving all-time highs for students on-track to graduate high school.
Editorial: Chicago’s graduation rates at new heights
UEI director Tim Knowles lays out how UChicago CCSR's freshman on-track indicator triggered a system-wide shift in graduation rates, urging other cities to learn from Chicago's example turning research into practice.
Editorial: How to improve graduation rates
An editorial reviews UChicago CCSR's new study showing 20 schools that focused on improving freshman on-track dramatically improved graduation rates, affirming that how a school organizes itself can make a huge difference.
Keeping ninth-graders ‘on track’ raises graduation rate: U. of C. study
UChicago CCSR director Elaine Allensworth comments as new research shows 20 schools that focused their efforts around the Consortium-developed freshmen on-track indicator saw dramatic improvements in graduation rates.
Emanuel touts U. of C. study to show CPS gains
Mayor Emanuel lauds CPS's improvement on the UChicago CCSR-developed on-track indicator as new Consortium research shows schools that focused on freshman on-track saw dramatic improvements in graduation rates three years later.
Editorial: Ninth grade is the key to graduation
An editorial celebrates the thousands more students who will graduate high school thanks to Chicago's successful focus on UChicago CCSR's ninth-grade on-track indicator and urges all to stay focused.
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