The National High School Center is pleased to announce the release of our new YouTube channel.  The channel features the latest videos from our Webinars, conferences, and other ongoing initiatives.  Currently featured are the sessions from last year’s Midwest High School SIG Conference, Sue Szachowicz’s follow-up presentation on school turnaround, and the EWS Middle Grades and High School Webinar Series.  Check out the channel for our…

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The National High School Center’s early warning system (EWS) project was recently featured in a February 8^th Education Week article, “Data Tools Aim to Predict Student Performance.”

The article focused on the efforts of states and districts across the nation to utilize data systems to identify and support at-risk students.  Two of the data systems highlighted were the National High School Center’s Early Warning System High School…

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Last week the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), in partnership with the National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR), hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on dual enrollment, a strategy in which high school students take college courses. The event, Dual Enrollment: A Strategy for Improving College Readiness and Success for All Students, featured two reports about dual enrollment released by NCPR. Presenters spoke about the findings of the…

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Are you using one of the National High School Center’s Early Warning System (EWS) tools or resources? Are you thinking about using one, but have questions about how they might work for you? If so, please join the National High School Center’s new online Community of Practice for practitioners implementing EWS.

The EWS community is designed to connect users working with the National High School Center’s Early Warning…

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Looking for new high school-related resources?  Here are some pieces that other organizations have recently released:*

The Economic Value of Opportunity Youth (Civic Enterprises, January 2012). This report presents a detailed picture of the size of “opportunity youth” in the U.S., their demographic makeup and activities, as well as the social and fiscal costs they present. Opportunity youth may have dropped out of high school or college and been unable…

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED)-sponsored School Turnaround Learning Community (STLC) launched a “Secondary Schools” group within their online community for district and state staff implementing Smaller Learning Communities (SLC), the High School Graduation Initiative (HSGI), and School Improvement Grant (SIG) projects.  According to the group’s homepage, “The chief purpose of this group is to disseminate information about effective or promising practices in high school reform, and…

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The U.S. Department of Education recently released a professional development resource through Doing What Works (DWW) and the National High School Center.  Research-Based Practices for Secondary Schools Professional Development Package contains materials needed to conduct six professional development sessions on implementing research-based practices in secondary schools for three topics: Adolescent Literacy, Dropout Prevention, and Helping Student Navigate the Path to College. Additionally, a supplemental module on the…

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