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Georgia LEADS the Way With Educational Supports For Foster Youth

May 30, 2019

In 2017, in partnership with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, the Multi-Agency Alliance for Children (MAAC) began an educational coordination pilot called LEADS (Learn, Educate, Achieve, Dream, Succeed) with the goal of continuing the work of Project Graduate to increase high school graduation rates for students in foster care in Fulton and DeKalb counties—the counties where Atlanta sits.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Relationships Shine at the Jobs for Michigan’s Graduates Career Development Day

May 09, 2019

The chatter of hundreds of high school students, teachers, mentors, and community volunteers fill the Lansing Convention Center in Lansing, Mich. with a hum of excitement. The students are about to face off in a series of competitions. Not as part of a spelling bee or sports event, but as a test of their employability skills.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Pathways, Greater Stark County Urban League

Mentoring and Young People in Foster Care: Why Relationships Matter

May 08, 2019

BEST Kids is a nonprofit organization that provides one-on-one mentoring for over 150 youth in foster care in the Washington DC Metro area. We match caring and consistent adult mentors with youth to provide them not only the guidance and support they need to grow up, but also to help them navigate challenges specific to growing up in foster care.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Advancing Advanced Placement: Better Measuring for College Readiness

March 13, 2019

We view readiness as a set of academic and life skills young people develop over time that supports their growth and can help them succeed in school, in their post-grad career(s), and life.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Pathways

Curriculum for change: Addressing students’ social and emotional needs

January 15, 2019

A new report released today, From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope, helps answer the question: “How do we as a country shift from focusing purely on academics to fostering young people’s social and emotional growth, too?”

Type: Opinion

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

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

This Back-to-School Season, Let’s Not Forget that Hope Matters

September 06, 2018

As millions of young people begin a new school year, many parents and adults are no doubt worried about how well they’ll fare. From concerns about screen time to college and career readiness, there are plenty of headlines that fret over the well-being of young people.

Type: Opinion

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

The Link Between Suspensions, Expulsions, and Dropout Rates

September 05, 2018

A preponderance of research shows that suspensions and expulsions do little to change behavior and can push students out of school altogether. For instance, being suspended just one time in the ninth grade is related to an increased risk of dropping out. Suspension can increase the chance of leaving school prior to graduation from 16 percent to a 32 percent.

Type: Opinion

TAG: School Discipline

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: School Climate

Getting Into College Is Tough for First-Generation College Students, So I’m Making It a Little Easier

August 29, 2018

As a first-generation college student, I found myself doing everything on my own, without any family support and knowing very little of what was entailed in both applying and getting into college.

Type: Opinion

TAG: College Gap

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Pathways

“Why Do the White Teachers Always Quit?"

August 07, 2018

Students began listing the names of teachers who had left in the middle of the year, all of them white. Ninety-eight percent of students were children of color, mostly Latino, and 86 percent qualified for free or reduced-priced lunch. It had not escaped them that the majority of teachers who had quit did not look like them.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

If teachers aren’t equipped to help trauma victims, students suffer. Learn from my story.

July 26, 2018

It took one of my kindergarten students, Andrew, to help me figure out how to handle my toughest teaching challenge.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Safe Schools, School Discipline

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign