Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
The Obama administration is enlisting help from the Johns Hopkins University in a just-announced initiative to reduce chronic absenteeism in public schools by at least 10 percent a year.
October 7, 2015 Tags: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Everyone Graduates Center, K-12 Education, Robert Balfanz, School of Education
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Public policy
Mentors, wake-up calls to students, incentives and weekly “student success” meetings led by principals, helped New York City significantly cut chronic absenteeism in schools, according to a new report by the Everyone Graduates Center at The Johns Hopkins University School of Education.
November 20, 2013 Tags: Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Balfanz, School of Education
| Category: Education/K-12, Uncategorized
Robert Balfanz, a senior research scientist at The Johns Hopkins University, is among 10 education leaders named White House “Champions of Change” for their commitment to furthering education among African Americans.
February 26, 2013 Tags: Everyone Graduates Center, Robert Balfanz, School of Education, Talent Development Secondary
| Category: Education/K-12
More than 150 middle and high school educators from across the country will gather at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Monday and Tuesday, July 26 and 27, for the 2010 Talent Development National Conference. The biennial conference is sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University’s Talent Development program, which seeks to keep all students on the path to high school graduation and beyond using sound research, a college preparatory curriculum for all students, and extensive professional development for faculty and staff.
July 22, 2010 Tags: Center for the Social Organization of Schools, CSOS, Diplomas Now, drop out factories, Everyone Graduates Center, Johns Hopkins University's Talent Development Program, Robert Balfanz, Talent Development National Conference
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
