About Us

Our History

The work of the Partnership for Student Success began in 2022 through a public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of Education, AmeriCorps, and the Johns Hopkins University Everyone Graduates Center–The National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS). NPSS was launched in July 2022 with a call to action from President Joseph R. Biden for an additional 250,000 Americans to step up and support local students to recover from the impacts of the pandemic through service in evidence-based roles as tutors, mentors, student success coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, and wraparound/integrated student support coordinators by summer 2025.

From July 2022 through mid-January 2025, the NPSS grew into a nationwide coalition including over 220 supporting champion organizations, 70 higher education institutions, and over 200 school districts, each of which played a key role in mobilizing additional people to provide evidence-based support to students nationwide. In October 2024, a report from researchers at Johns Hopkins University analyzing the results of a nationally representative survey of school principals indicated that between fall 2022 and spring 2024, an estimated 323,000 additional adults stepped up and served in NPSS-aligned roles in schools nationwide. While this report indicated that the nation surpassed President Biden’s goal one year ahead of target, it also indicated that significant work remains in order to scale these evidence-based student supports to all students.

Our Work

Following the end of the National Partnership for Student Success initiative in January 2025, the Johns Hopkins University Everyone Graduates Center established the Partnership for Student Success (formerly the NPSS Support Hub) to continue its work to foster local community collaboration to propel the success of all students through evidence-based supports. The Partnership for Student Success supports the field through:

• Creating enabling conditions for local collaborations between school districts, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and state/local government to work together to provide all students with the supports they need to succeed.
• Leading strategic efforts to engage specific populations–such as older adults, college students, high school students, AmeriCorps members, or corporate volunteers–in jobs, volunteer roles, and career-connected learning opportunities providing P-12 students with evidence-based supports, as tutors, mentors, student success, coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, wraparound support coordinators and other support roles.
• Organizing solutions networks and working groups to address pervasive challenges (e.g. chronic absenteeism) facing students and facilitate collaboration, information sharing, and learning between practitioners working toward shared solutions.
• Providing technical assistance and networking support to schools, districts, nonprofits, and state/local government to support implementation.
• Developing publicly available tools and resources to aid the implementation of evidence-based student supports.
• Conducting research on the use and reach of evidence-based and people-powered student supports nationwide.

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As of January 19, 2025, this website no longer represents the National Partnership for Student Success public-private partnership.