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Creating Sustainable Career Pathways For Disconnected Youth

December 12, 2018

Type: Report

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education

channels: College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, Youth Opportunity Fund

Say Yes to Education and America’s Promise Alliance Announce Leadership for Weiss Institute

September 08, 2017

The Weiss Institute, a new nationwide partnership that helps local communities expand their capacity to support students as they prepare for college and other postsecondary education, announced today that it has selected Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey to be its first president.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness, College Gap

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: College & Career, Thriving

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Recommit2Kids, Weiss Institute, Center for Promise

GradNation Leaders Urge DeVos to Monitor Potential High School Graduation Rate “Loophole” Under Every Student Succeeds Act

April 10, 2017

As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low-income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Recommit2Kids

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Attendance

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Barriers to Success

March 30, 2017

While many young people in America continue to be bombarded by severe adversity, few receive the supports and resources they need to cope and succeed.

Type: Report

TAG: Youth Voice, Career Pathways, Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Re-engaging Youth, Mentoring, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Youth in Poverty Six Times More Likely to Experience Detrimental Levels of Adversity Than Higher-Income Peers

March 28, 2017

More than one-quarter of children living in poverty (28 percent) experience three or more reported adversities in their adolescence, a rate nearly six times that of their middle and upper class peers, according to a new report by the Center for Promise, the applied research institute of America’s Promise Alliance.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Career Pathways, Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Re-engaging Youth, College & Career, Youth Involvement

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

Youth, Relationships, and Career Readiness

March 01, 2017

Two new reports explore how relationships impact young people at work and in life

Type: Report

TAG: College and Career Readiness, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: College & Career, Mentoring

SOURCE: Center for Promise, Citi Foundation

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.

Type: Resource

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise, Citi Foundation

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?

Type: Resource

TAG: College and Career Readiness

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Youth Involvement, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Closing the College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment

December 07, 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 College Gap: A Roadmap to Postsecondary Readiness and Attainment.

Type: Report

TAG: College Gap, College and Career Readiness, GPA

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Attendance, College & Career

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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.

Type: Resource

TAG: College Gap, College and Career Readiness, Youth Involvement

promises: Effective Education

channels: College & Career

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, Alliance for Excellent Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign