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Re-engaging Youth

Programs and strategies designed around youth re-engagement focus on the mechanisms by which youth can be reached and the subsequent connections that youth can make to recommit to their education.

Youth disengage for a variety of reasons. Programs and strategies are most successful when they seek to understand why youth disengaged, and provide options for them upon their return.

Re-engagement strategies can include adult mentors, opportunities to work while completing their high school graduation requirements, and a host of other opportunities.

Resources

Our Work
OUR WORK: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America
April 17, 2017
How can we take what’s been learned and accelerate progress for young people in America, especially for those young people who are most vulnerable? How can we create the conditions for success for more young people, more quickly? To answer these questions, America’s Promise reviewed research about what’s changed in the past 20 years in young people’s lives and in our understanding of youth development. We surveyed our network, spoke with young people, and interviewed more than 200 people representing nonprofits, corporations, foundations, research and policy entities, educational institutions, government, and other systems.
Source: America's Promise Alliance
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Blended Learning Offers Promise as a Strategy for Re-engaging Students
April 07, 2016

This paper presents a landscape analysis of how blended learning currently is being used as a strategy to serve young adults, age 16-24, who have re-engaged in education in an effort to obtain a high school diploma or equivalency.

The analysis is based on a review of relevant empirical research and interviews with program developers, practitioners and policy makers in the field.  Contributing to a nascent body of literature, this report highlights examples of how blended learning is being implemented in schools and community-based organizations.

Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: Re-engaging YouthYouth Involvement
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High Schools and Student Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity with a 2014 Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR) below 67 Percent Table
January 21, 2016
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Source: America's Promise Alliance
Focus Areas: Re-engaging Youth
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Building Blocks of a GradNation: Assets for Keeping Young People in School
September 19, 2015

Much has been written about how to prevent students from leaving high school before graduating, and which life experiences or risk factors

Source: Center for Promise
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Back to School: Exploring Promising Practices for Re-engaging Young People in Secondary Education
December 11, 2014

Stemming from the Don’t Call Them Dropouts report, based on careful listening to young people who didn’t graduate in four years, America’s Promise Alliance’s Center for Promise released Back to School: Exploring Promising Practices for Re-Engaging Young People in Secondary Education. The paper explores ways to strengthen and expand re-engagement options for young people who need more time or different pathways to finish school. The paper is designed as a resource for educators, practitioners, community stakeholders, communications professionals and policymakers interested in supporting out-of-school youth who wish to obtain a high school credential. A high school diploma is by no means a guarantee of success, but failure to complete high school is a devastatingly accurate predictor of lifelong struggle and unrealized human potential. If birth is life’s starting line, then high school graduation is life’s second starting line for success. 

Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: Re-engaging Youth
Don't Call Them Dropouts: Understanding the Experiences of Young People Who Leave High School Before Graduation
May 20, 2014

“Don’t Call Them Dropouts,” a report by America’s Promise Alliance based on research conducted by its Center for Promise at Tufts University, was funded by Target. In the largest nationwide study of its kind to date, young adults who left high school without graduating spoke at length about their experiences and the reasons they did not complete high school on time. As the nation reaches the all-time high of an 80 percent on-time high school graduation rate, this report listens deeply to what the remaining 20 percent say is happening in their lives, and what they need to stay in school.

Source: America's Promise Alliance
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