2012

This report tells how a group of parents, educators, community-based service providers, funders, and education experts created the Dunbar Learning Complex with the goal of permanently changing the path of children living in poverty. It also shares the impact of those efforts on children and their parents, two years later.

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2012

This revised study finds that students who don’t read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave without a diploma than proficient readers. It is notable in breaking down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill levels and poverty experiences. It also updates a 2011 research brief with new data on graduation rates for students living in concentrated poverty.

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2011

This report marks the start of Advocates for Children of New Jersey’s Food for Thought School Breakfast Campaign, which seeks to expand innovative approaches to serving school breakfast and significantly increase students’ participation rates.

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2011

This issue brief looks at factors effecting high school graduation rates in Rhode Island, and the relationship to employment and increased economic security.

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2011

This review identifies the most promising approaches for revising the structure, curriculum, or delivery of developmental education and suggests areas for future innovations in developmental education practice and research.

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