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The Connection Strategy: Preparing Young People to Succeed in College and Beyond - 2007
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The Connection Strategy: Preparing Young People to Succeed in College and Beyond describes the P-16 approach of linking education strategies from preschool through college graduation to better prepare low-income minority students. Discusses academic content, state policy strategies, and P-16 network efforts in Atlanta. Author: Jehl, Jeanne. Annie E. Casey Foundation. (2007) |
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Rethinking High School: Preparing Students for Success in College, Career, and Life (2007)
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By: Grace Calisi Corbett, Tracy A. Huebner
Find out how five successful Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded high school programs are preparing adolescent students for academic success in college, career, and life. Includes profiles of schools in Oakland, CA; Mabton, WA; Houston, TX; Bridgeton, NJ; and Gateway to College in Portland, OR. |
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Dead Ends: The Need For More Pathways to Graduation for Overage, Under-credited Students in New York City - Dec. 2007
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This brief examines the ability of the Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation (OMPG) schools to meet the instructional needs of English Language Learners (ELLs), students with special education needs, students who are older with few or no credits, and students who are pregnant or parenting. 12/10/2007 |
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High Schools for Equity: Policy Brief (2007)
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The study focuses on five urban, public high schools from across the state that have no selective admissions requirements, serve primarily students of color and low-income students, graduate students at higher rates than the state average, and send more than 80% of them to college. These five are not the only high schools succeeding against the odds, but they represent the types of educational approaches required to close California's educational achievement gap and to enable all students to move on to successful career and college pathways. November 13, 2007 |
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High Schools for Equity: Policy Supports for Student Learning in Communities of Color (2007)
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The study -- High Schools for Equity: Policy Supports for Student Learning in Communities of Color -- focuses on five urban, public high schools from across the state that have no selective admissions requirements, serve primarily students of color and low-income students, graduate students at higher rates than the state average, and send more than 80% of them to college. These five are not the only high schools succeeding against the odds, but they represent the types of educational approaches required to close California's educational achievement gap and to enable all students to move on to successful career and college pathways. November 13, 2007 |
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Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce and Youth Development for Young Offenders: Toolkit
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Profiles break-the-mold juvenile justice initiatives that are reducing crime and making communities safer by facilitating youths' economic self-sufficiency. Contains three separate reports: an overview, program profiles, and policy profiles. It was created to address three objectives: identify barriers to success in juvenile justice -- both for the system and for the young people in it; survey innovative state and local policy initiatives; and showcase exemplary employment and development programs for court-involved youth. |
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From Data to Results: The PEPNet Guide to Measuring and Improving Performance in Youth Programs
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This guide addresses the elements of measuring results, step by step, and explains how to use the collected data to improve performance. It defines technical terms and concepts, explains calculations, provides specific suggestions about what to measure and how, and includes simple exercises to help understand the materials. And it goes beyond collecting and documenting results, exploring how to analyze results, how to communicate them and how to use youth results and other program data to improve program operations. |
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NYEC EDNet: Second Edition
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NYEC EDNet is a tool for continuous improvement for education programs and schools serving vulnerable youth. NYEC EDNet consists of detailed criteria identified as common to effective education programs and schools by a national working group of educators, practitioners, policymakers and researchers; and a comprehensive self-assessment that can assist education programs and schools improve their services and also inform policymakers, funders and the public about what works for youth. |
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PEPNet Guide to Quality Standards for Youth Programs
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A research- and practice-based guide to improving the quality of programs linking youth to employment and education for a successful transition to adulthood. |
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Youth Development Institute: Community Education Pathways to Succes (CEPS) - Implementing CEPS: The First Year Evaluation Report (Sept. 2007)
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In New York City, nearly 70 percent of dropouts begin high school at low literacy levels. Yet currently this population remains drastically underserved, especially when it comes to the allocation of resources. To address their needs, the Youth Development Institute (YDI) began the Community Education Pathways to Success (CEPS), which provide the academic, vocational and personal support people with low skill levels need to become eligible for GED programs and to succeed in post-secondary life. CEPS participants, many of whom attended their high schools less than 20 percent of the time, have become readers and made gains on standardized tests. This report focuses on the sites' (Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, NY) implementation of CEPS, the degree to which their implementations reflect the CEPS model, and on an analysis of the student data sites submitted to YDI in April, 2007.
Authors: Patricia B. Campbell, Ph.D. and Rosa Carson, B.A.
Date: September 2007 |
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