All posts tagged "College & Careers"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Guiding Disconnected Youth to Academic Success

  Program: Community Education Pathways to Success (CEPS). Organization: Youth Development Institute (YDI); unidentified community-based organizations at 10 New York City sites. Types...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Boost

          http://boostup.org This slick multimedia site strives to help high school students graduate. The site includes a sign-up for...

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  Expanding Options: State Financing of Education Pathways for Struggling Students and Out-of-School Youth

  National Youth Employment Coalition The report looks at how three "leader" states, Indiana, Massachusetts and North Carolina, are accessing public funds for...

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  Relationships, Rigor, and Readiness: Strategies for Improving High Schools

  MDRC Even though many of the high school reforms taking shape today might be promising and based on sound research principles, "little...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  New Gates Grants to Help Youths Get Through College

  About two dozen organizations will share $69 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help double the number...

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  Creating Postsecondary Pathways to Good Jobs for Young High School Dropouts

  30 percent of all youth and 50 percent of minority youth leave public schools without diplomas.

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Community Colleges Get $2.5 Million to Help Communities

  After-school snack? No, the children don’t usually sample the pickle juice at the Eureka Kids after-school program in Eureka Springs, Ark. But...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Building a Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College

  Youth Development Institute45 pages. $10. This report in the Supporting College Access and Success for Young Adult Learners series features an experiment...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Promising Practices in Working with Young Adults

  Youth Development Institute122 pages. Bound volume: $35. Nine sections in booklets: $2-$5 each. Download: free. Help for high school dropouts and potential...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Getting Real: Helping Teens Find Their Future

  Kenneth Gray Corwin Press196 pages. $25.95. As an outspoken advocate of career education and alternatives to four-year college degrees, Gray commands attention:...

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  A Developmental Perspective on College and Workplace Readiness

  The researchers suggest that college and workplace readiness criteria should be expanded to include things such as healthy behaviors, avoiding risky behaviors,...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride

  Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...