Press Inquiries
For all press inquiries, please contact Angie Cannon at angie@thehatchergroup.com.
Diplomas Now in the News:
What you won’t hear at high school graduation
CNN, June 6, 2013
Anti-dropout program offers graduation-like ceremonies
The Columbus Dispatch, May 29, 2013
Why Are High School Graduation Rates Up?
Learning Matters, April 11, 2013
Inspiring Youth to Stay in School: The Diplomas Now Approach
Promote Prevent Perspectives, April 5, 2013
City Year, AT&T Team Up to Keep Kids in School and on Track to Succeed
City Year, March 21, 2013
Diplomas Now
The Advocate, March 10, 2013
Robert Balfanz named “Champion of Change” by White House
JHU CSOS, February 26, 2013
Honors just keep coming for Shaw Middle
The Philadelphia Tribune, January 22, 2013
A Focus on Attendance Is Key to Success
NASSP, January 2013
‘Diplomas Now’ Turns Around Failing Broadmoor Middle School In Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The Huffington Post, December 11, 2012
How one school ‘turnaround’ worked (without firing the teachers)
The Washington Post’s The Answer Sheet, December 7, 2012
PBS Newshour Feature Compilation, December 6, 2012:
- School Reform Program Targets Students at Risk of Falling Behind, Dropping Out
- ‘Insider Trading’ Used to Retool Failing Schools
- It Takes a Village: City Year’s Role in Dropout Prevention
- Why ‘Mastering’ the Basics of Why We Go to School Matters
Diplomas Now nurtures the whole child
American Teacher, November/December 2012
School of the Week: Detroit Collegiate Preparatory High School
Detroit Public School News, October 29, 2012
National Service Can Ignite School Turnaround Efforts
Education Week, September 18, 2012
Reform the L.A. Way: Diplomas Now!
KLCS TV, August 7, 2012
Middle School Moment
PBS Frontline, July 17, 2012
A Necessary Luxury
Catalyst-Chicago, June 18, 2012
Chronic Absenteeism: Public School’s Forgotten Problem?
WAMU-FM, June 1, 2012
‘Chronically Absent’ Students Skew School Data, Study Finds, Citing Parents’ Role
New York Times, May 17, 2012
How ‘early warning systems’ are keeping kids in school
Washington Post, April 10, 2012
In DC Schools, 59 Percent of Students Earn Diplomas on Time
Washington Post, April 5, 2012
Graduation Rates Rise
Washington Post, March 25, 2012
D.C Council Approves Education Bills
Washington Post, March 20, 2012
Bridging The Gap Between Home And School
WAMU-FM, March 16, 2012
Scaling Up Solutions To The Dropout Problem
WAMU-FM, March 8, 2012
Photos: Diplomas Now at Browne Education Campus
WAMU-FM, March 8, 2012
Ne-Yo Encourages Attendance and Education During School Visit
Look to the Stars, February 28, 2012
Teens Publish Book about their Lives Beyond School
Chicago Tribune, February 12, 2012
WA Middle School Wins Attendance Contest
Associated Press, January 27, 2012
Ending America’s Droupout Crisis Part 1: Middle School Intervention That Works
Ideas in Action with Jim Glassman, January 26, 2012
Obama Wades into Issue of Raising Dropout Age
New York Times, January 25, 2012
Martin Luther King Day Service Project
C-SPAN, January 16, 2012
Let’s Focus on Chronic Absenteeism
Education Week, January 4, 2012
A Narrower Focus Helps City Year Win Grants and Increase Its Impact
Chronicle of Philanthropy, December 4, 2011
Researchers, Nonprofit Leaders Discuss School Absences
Bloomberg EDU, November 28, 2011
L.A. Learning to Curb High School Dropouts
Los Angeles Business Journal, November 28, 2011
Progress Lags in High School
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, November 2, 2011
Students Help Build Community Garden at Capitol Middle School
WBRZ Baton Rouge, October 15, 2011
Strategies to Prevent Youth from Dropping Out
WDET Detroit, September 19, 2011
At a Restart School, it Starts with Long Lines
New York Times, September 8, 2011
Students, principals feel first-day-of-school jitters as metro Detroit returns to the classroom
Detroit Free Press, September 6, 2011
Diplomas Now: A New Approach to Student Achievement
WJBK FOX News, August 25, 2011
Restart partners say they plan to ease into management role
Gotham Schools, August 12, 2011
CISD in Partnership with Diplomas Now
Peoplemovers, June 28, 2011
Inside Detroit Public Schools
WRCJ 90.9, June 19, 2011
Diplomas Now: Providing Solutions to the Education Crisis in America
Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal, June 2011
New Orleans Schools a Study in Contrasts
Education News, April 7, 2011
Back on Track to Graduate
Educational Leadership, April 2011
As Student Absenteeism Rises, a Charter School Fights Back
New York Times, March 25, 2011
Diplomas Now: Improving Graduation Rates
Urban Teacher Life, March 23, 2011
S.C. Project Steps ‘Dropout Factories’
Sun News, January 21, 2011
Program Reduces Dropout Rate in Columbia
WACH FOX News, January 20, 2011
ABCs for Dropout Rate Reform (video)
CBS News, November 30, 2010
White House Call Out of Diplomas Now
White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, July 7, 2010
To Fight ‘Dropout Factories,’ School Program Starts Young
USA Today, May 28, 2010
‘Diplomas Now’ Offers Potential Dropouts Lots of Help (pdf)
Education Week, December 16, 2009
Program Aims to Prevent Dropouts (pdf)
San Antonio Express News, December 4, 2009
Diplomas Now Helps Prevent Dropouts
Johns Hopkins Newsletter, October 8, 2009
Students on Track for Graduation (pdf)
Middle Ground, August 2009