Technology and digital media continue to represent a powerful pathway for advancing the goals of education, including raising academic achievement and preparing students for college and career, according to a new study released by the Center for Promise, the research arm of America’s Promise Alliance. In time for Digital Learning Day, the new paper, Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom, generously supported by the Cable Impacts Foundation, explores digital learning as a promising strategy for improving students’ educational experiences and highlights the efforts of five school districts across the country focused on reshaping the traditional learning environment.

Today, America’s Promise Alliance, the nation’s largest partnership of organizations, communities and individuals committed to positive outcomes for youth, and its research arm the Center for Promise, released a series of in-depth case studies highlighting collaborative efforts in the cities of Atlanta, Orlando and New Orleans that provide important lessons about how organizations and communities can work together effectively to create positive pathways to success for young people.

On behalf of the GradNation campaign, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, Everyone Graduates Center and Alliance for Excellent Education, recently sent a coalition letter to Congress urging lawmakers to support continued effective high school graduation rate accountability for states, districts and schools in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization.

WASHINGTON — America's Promise Alliance, the nation’s largest partnership organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth, announced today that it has elected Ti’Andre Bellinger, 17, to its Board of Directors and Odunola Ojewumi, 23, to its Alliance Trustees.  They will each serve a two year term. 

Dollars for College: a Student Financial Planning Toolkit is a first of its kind guide designed by financial aid practitioners that provides easy, comprehensive guidelines from middle school through college. The toolkit was developed to help students and families understand all the available resources and options that can make higher education affordable.

 

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The GE Foundation has become an official partner of the America’s Promise Alliance GradNation Campaign. Through its leadership and support for the college- and career-ready components of the campaign, the GE Foundation will help guide 24 GradNation Community Summits throughout 2014 and 2015.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Students who leave high school without graduating say they do so not out of boredom or lack of motivation, but because they are overwhelmed by the effects of toxic living conditions on their daily lives, including homelessness, violent surroundings, abuse or neglect, catastrophic family health events, and the absence of caring adults who can help them stay in school, according to a report released today titled “Don’t Call Them Dropouts.”