Resources

Various resources about Denver Public Schools, the achievement gap, and factors impacting the success of our students.

Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic released November 30, 2010 by America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

Civic Marshall Plan to Build a Grad Nation - where does Colorado stand?

Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018 Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, June 2010

The 2010 Denver Plan Denver Public Schools Strategic Vision and Action Plan

Dropouts in the Denver Public Schools: Early Warning Signals and Possibilities for Prevention and Recovery

Girls' Dropout Experience For Women's Foundation of Colorado, by Dora Lodwick, The REFT Institute

“Girls Tend to Stop Going;Boys Get Told Not to Come Back” A Report on Gender and the Dropout Problem in Colorado Schools  By Laurie Bennett (National Center for School Engagement) and Martha McIver (The Center for Social Organization of Schools  - Johns Hopkins University)

Denver's Public Schools: Reforms, Challenges, and the Future By Judy Bray and Alex Medler (June 2009)