White House Author
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Robert Balfanz
Robert Balfanz is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, School of Education, and Co-Director of the Everyone Graduates Center. He works to end the nation’s high school dropout crisis by analyzing the scale and nature of the challenge, developing tools and evidence-based approaches to enable all students to graduate college and be career ready, and increase the capacity of schools, school districts, and community organizations to implement them.