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America’s Promise curates a high-quality and diverse set of resources and data related to children and youth
Creating Policies to Support Healthy Schools: Policymaker, Educator, and Student Perspectives
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Initiatives focused on improving aspects of students’ well-being in schools—such as addressing childhood obesity, preventing bullying, and restricting schools’ use of exclusionary discipline—are…
2018 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Authored by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, and released annually in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education and America’s Promise…
When Youth Feel Unsafe: Brief Insights on the Cognitive and Academic Effects of Exposure to Violence
Thursday, February 22, 2018
This Point of View brief from the Center for Promise provides research insights on a particularly timely topic - violence in America's schools - that is impacting young people in America. Learn more…
Closing the Graduation Gap: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates in Indiana
Monday, November 27, 2017
In 2015, Indiana had both the highest high school graduation rates of any state in the nation at 87.1 percent, and the narrowest graduation gap—4.5 percentage points—between low-income and non-low-…
OUR WORK: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America
Monday, 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…
Turning Points: How Young People in Four Career Pathways Programs Describe the Relationships that Shape Their Lives
Wednesday, March 1, 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…
Defining Webs of Support: A New Framework to Advance Understanding of Relationships and Youth Development
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
In this brief, the authors present a web of support framework to describe how youth relate to adults and peers in their lives, and how these relationships provide the supports necessary for young…
Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
As the United States' advantage in educational attainment continues to decline, Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University joined together to release Closing the…
