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Call for Community Conveners on How Learning Happens

June 26, 2019

Join the national and local movement to advance young people’s social, emotional, and cognitive development. America’s Promise is seeking five community conveners to inspire action on how learning happens. Each community will be awarded $30,000 to support planning and execution of the convening.

Type: Resource

promises: A Healthy Start

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth

January 29, 2019

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth was authored by Shannon Varga, Max Margolius, Catalina Tang Yan, Anna Skubel, Marissa L. Cole, and Jonathan F. Zaff, at the Center for Promise. This research is part of GradNation State Activation, an initiative of the GradNation campaign to raise high school graduation rates to 90 percent. WestEd is one of three grant recipients for this national effort. Pearson is the sole sponsor of this study and its dissemination.

Type: Report

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Pearson, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

2018 Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates

June 05, 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 Alliance, the Building a Grad Nation report examines both progress and challenges toward reaching the GradNation campaign goal of a national on-time graduation rate of 90 percent. AT&T, lead sponsor, has supported the report series since its inception through AT&T Aspire, the company’s $400 million commitment since 2008 to graduate more students from high school ready for college and career.…

Type: Report

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Students with Disabilities, Homeless Youth, English Learners, Low-Income

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

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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…

Type: Resource

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Black/African-American, English Learners, Recommit2Kids

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

channels: Family Engagement, Re-engaging Youth, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

Expanded Learning, Expanded Opportunity

July 07, 2015

How Four Communities Are Working to Improve Education for Their Students America's Promise Related Promises: Caring AdultsEffective EducationSafe Places

Type: Resource

TAG: Low-Income, Youth Involvement

promises: A Healthy Start

channels: Expanded Learning Time

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

2016 Building a Grad Nation Report

May 12, 2015

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.

Type: Report

TAG: Using Data

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: College & Career

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

channels: Mentoring, Re-engaging Youth, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance

Every Child Every Promise: Turning Failure into Action

January 15, 2014

This report presents the first national research that comprehensively measures the presence of the essential resources -- the Five Promises -- that correlate with success in both youth and adulthood. The report clearly shows that we have much work to do as a nation. But it also shows how we can turn failure into action and improve the lives of young people at risk.

Type: Resource

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

channels: Re-engaging Youth

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance