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CISNCWhat can you do to help kids prepare for life?
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North Carolina Graduation Summit
NORTH CAROLINA TO ADDRESS HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT CRISIS
Thank you to the 400 people from across North Carolina who participated! We hope that the Graduation Summit and what we learned from it will allow all of us to focus on what we can do as a state to improve the graduation rate.
In partnership with America’s Promise, Communities In Schools of NC and the NC Department of Education a “Call to Arms” is being issued to ensure youth of North Carolina graduate.
On the 25th anniversary of the landmark report, “A Nation at Risk,” the country’s educational system remains in peril. Across the United States, one out of every three public high school students drops out each year. A new report commissioned by America’s Promise Alliance finds that the local graduation rate is 69.9% -- meaning that one in four North Carolina teens do not graduate with their class.
Supported by America’s Promise and the NC Department of Public Instruction along with corporate sponsors AT&T, GlaxoSmithKline, State Farm Insurance, and Walmart, the NC Graduation Summit seeks to generate solutions to curb this dropout crisis. This Summit is one of 100 such events nationwide in which local leaders will develop workable solutions to prepare our youth for success in college, work and life – starting with a high school diploma.
Watch the "TURNING THE TIDE: CHARTING A COURSE FOR STUDENT SUCCESS" video shown at the Summit
PRESENTERS:
• Bob Balfanz, Associate Professor at Everyone Graduates Center,
Johns Hopkins University - Presentation
• Bill Milliken, Founder & Vice-Chair, Communities In Schools,
author of The Last Dropout
• Shelley Stewart, Founder and President of The Mattie C. Stewart
Foundation
• 50 Information Stations: programs, initiatives and organizations
from NC that provide replicable, proven, research-based strategies and
solutions
WHEN/WHERE:
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The McKimmon Center at NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Please be on the look out for the dates of regional follow up summits
to be held in the spring and summer of 2010.
