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Cross-System Collaboration for Reconnecting Youth
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This brief is designed to assist community and state leaders, youth advocates, educators, and other stakeholders interested in improving or expanding upon the options for struggling students and out-of-school youth. It provides background on important aspects of cross-system collaboration to help local- and state-level stakeholders think about where to start, how to assess how their community or state is doing, and how to improve or expand upon work already under way. |
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Funding for Reconnecting Youth
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This brief is designed to assist community and state leaders, youth advocates, educators, and other stakeholders interested in improving or expanding upon the options for struggling students and out-of-school youth. It provides background on important aspects of funding to help local- and state-level stakeholders think about where to start, how to assess how their community or state is doing, and how to improve or expand upon work already under way. |
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State and Local Policy for Reconnecting Youth
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This brief is designed to assist community and state leaders, youth advocates, educators, and other stakeholders interested in improving or expanding upon the options for struggling students and out-of-school youth. It provides background on important aspects of policy to help local- and state-level stakeholders think about where to start, how to assess how their community or state is doing, and how to improve or expand upon work already under way. |
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A Look at Community Schools (Oct. 2009)
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This report will provide an overview of community school strategies in the United States and how community schools can decrease poverty's detrimental effect on students. There are many examples of community school initiatives--from national models to local school district initiatives. This report highlights the examples where research shows community schools have had the most success. It will also review England's extended school model and suggest how the United States can expand community schools based on England's experience.
Author: Saba Bireda, Center for American Progress
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Demographic, Socio-Economic, Schooling, and Labor Market Indicators for 16-24 Year Olds in the City of Hartford
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Prepared by: Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University
Prepared for: National League of Cities, Washington, D.C., October 2009 |
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Employers, Low-Income Young Adults, and Post-Secondary Credentials - Workforce Strategy Center (Oct. 2009)
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This report investigates a number of education and training programs involving employers in efforts to help disadvantaged young adults attain postsecondary credentials leading to career track employment. Our model programs meet four basic criteria:
1) Getting low-income youth and young adults postsecondary credentials that will allow them to enter and advance in career track employment.
2) Working with employers in industry sectors important to the region's economy.
3) Maximizing employer roles and commitment.
4) Demonstrating portability, scalability, and replicability. |
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Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students (Oct. 2009)
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Using student-level data, this paper examines the impact of charter schools on the academic performance of students who remain in the local public schools of New York City, instead of joining its rapidly expanding charter sector. In particular, it tests whether there is a relationship between how much math and reading skill a regular public school student has acquired during a school year and the percentage of his or her classmates who left for a charter school at the end of the previous school year, controlling for both observed and unobserved factors pertaining to the student and his or her school. The analysis reveals that students benefit academically when their public school is exposed to competition from a charter. Findings include:
- For every 1 percent of a public school's students who leave for a charter, reading proficiency among those who remain increases by about 0.02 standard deviations, a small but not insignificant number, in view of the widely held suspicion that the impact on local public schools of students' departures for charter schools would be negative.
- Competition from charter schools has no effect on overall student achievement in math.
- In both math and reading, the lowest-performing students in public school benefit from competition from charter schools. |
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Key Social, Income, Housing, Civic, Health and Incarcerations Consequences of Dropping Out of High School: Findings for Connecticut Adults in the 21st Century
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Key Social, Income, Housing, Civic, Health and Incarcerations Consequences of Dropping Out of High School: Findings for Connecticut Adults in the 21st Century |
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Staying in School: Arts Education & NYC High School Graduation Rates (Oct. 2009)
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This report takes the first ever look at the relationship between school-based arts education and high school graduation rates in New York City public schools. The findings, based on data collected by the New York City Department of Education (DOE), strongly suggest that the arts play a key role in keeping students in high school and graduating on time. |
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Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston (Sept. 2009)
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School choice requires that students and their parents have meaningful choices. In a new Education Sector Idea at Work, Matchmaking: Enabling Mandatory Public School Choice in New York and Boston, Co-founder Thomas Toch and Policy Analyst Chad Aldeman take a close look at the choice systems in New York and Boston. |
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