Skip to main content
  • About
    • The Five Promises
    • Our History
    • Join the Alliance
    • Funders
    • Our Team
    • Careers
    • Contact Us
    • Financial Information
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Opinions
    • Press Releases
    • Press Room
    • Media Mentions
  • Our Work
    • Center for Promise
    • Every School Healthy
    • GradNation
    • How Learning Happens
    • Power of Youth Challenge
    • Youth Voice - The State of Young People
    • The Yes Project
  • Resources
    • GradNation Resources
    • Great American High School Campaign
    • High School Graduation Facts: Ending the Dropout Crisis
    • Building a GradNation Report
    • Youth Employment
  • Events
  • Press Room
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Email
  • Legal
Show Navigation
DonateFacebookTwitterLinkedInInstagram
  • About
      • The Five Promises
      • Our History
      • Join the Alliance
      • Funders
      • Our Team
      • Careers
      • Contact Us
      • Financial Information
  • News
      • Latest News
      • Opinions
      • Press Releases
      • Press Room
      • Media Mentions
  • Our Work
      • Center for Promise
      • Every School Healthy
      • GradNation
      • How Learning Happens
      • Power of Youth Challenge
      • Youth Voice - The State of Young People
      • The Yes Project
  • Resources
      • GradNation Resources
      • Great American High School Campaign
      • High School Graduation Facts: Ending the Dropout Crisis
      • Building a GradNation Report
      • Youth Employment
  • Events
  • Press Room

America's Promise Alliance logo

College & Career

Resources

Turning Points
Turning Points: How Young People in Four Career Pathways Programs Describe the Relationships that Shape Their Lives
March 01, 2017
Turning Points builds on the programmatic insights from Relationships Come First by asking young people enrolled in career pathways programs in four cities – Café Momentum in Dallas; Per Scholas in the Bronx, Urban Alliance in Washington, DC, and Year Up in the Bay Area – to  describe how the relationships in their lives shape their development.
Source: Center for PromiseCiti Foundation
Focus Areas: Family EngagementYouth InvolvementCollege & Career
Center for Promise Squared
Relationships Come First: How Four Career Development and Workforce Readiness Programs Prepare Young People for Work and Life
December 15, 2016

What role do relationships play in fostering workforce development and career readiness among ‘risk-immersed’ youth?

Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: Youth InvolvementCollege & Career
Are High School Graduation Gains Real?
October 10, 2016

Experts at the GradNation campaign – led by America’s Promise Ailliance, Civic Enterprises, the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University and the Alliance for Excellent Education – provide this FAQ to help explain what’s behind the increase in high school graduation rates.

Source: America's Promise AllianceCivicEveryone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins UniversityAlliance for Excellent Education
Focus Areas: College & Career
Center for Promise Squared
Dispelling Stereotypes of Young People Who Leave School Before Graduation
September 19, 2016

Part of the Don’t Call Them Dropouts series of research, Dispelling Stereotypes of Young People Who Leave School Before Graduation explores the social and emotional competencies of young people who have left school before graduating from high school.

Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: College & Career
Civic
2016 Building a Grad Nation Report
May 09, 2016
Written annually by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, and released in partnership with America’s Promise Alliance and the Alliance for Excellent Education, this report examines the progress and challenges the nation faces in reaching the GradNation goal of a national on-time graduation rate of 90 percent by the Class of 2020. The nation has achieved an 82.3 percent high school graduation rate – a record high. Graduation rates rose for all student subgroups, and the number of low-graduation-rate high schools and students enrolled in them dropped again, indicating that progress has had far-reaching benefits for all students.
Source: Civic
Focus Areas: College & Career
Supporting Undocumented Youth: A Guide for Success in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings
October 27, 2015

The Supporting Undocumented Youth: A Guide for Success in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings Resource Guide, from the U.S. Department of Education, was put together to help educators and school staff support the academic success of undocumented youth, debunk misconceptions by clarifying the legal rights of undocumented students, share helpful information about financial aid options open to undocumented students, and support youth applying for DACA consideration or renewal.

Source: U.S. Department of Education
Focus Areas: College & CareerFamily EngagementYouth Involvement
more
more

Related Reports

Report cover
report cover
Youth, Relationships, and Career Readiness Cover
Report cover

Related News

College Board

October 24, 2018

To Get Students to College, New College Board Scholarships Reward Progress Over Scores
While the College Board might be best known for SAT and AP tests, their latest initiative doesn’t weigh scores for either.
College & Career
Study working in class

October 17, 2018

For Low-Income Students, Free College Often Comes at a High Price
All too often, hidden costs undermine the promise of free college. A new report from the Education Trust shows how such programs end up helping higher-income students while leaving many low-income students to fend for themselves.
College & Career
Mentoring a child

August 29, 2018

Community Leader Spotlight with the Mobile Area Education Foundation
“Good is not great, and greatness is an expectation.”  That’s the philosophy that informs every step of Chandra C. Scott’s work.
College & Career
College kids

August 09, 2018

What Advice Would You Give Yourself as a College Freshman?
If you could go back in time and give just one piece of advice to yourself as a college freshman, what would it be? That’s the question the staff here at America’s Promise answered.
Social and Emotional Learning College & Career
  • About
  • News
  • Our Work
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Press Room
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Email
  • Legal

America's Promise Alliance

1110 Vermont Avenue, N.W.
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202.657.0600Fax: 202.657.0601
© Copyright 2022 All rights reserved.