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Advocates Set New Goal to Graduate 90 Percent of Homeless Students by 2030, Enroll 60 Percent in College by 2034

March 05, 2018

Homelessness (ICPH), Civic Enterprises and America’s Promise Alliance launched Education Leads Home, a first-of-its-kind national campaign focused exclusively on addressing the needs of the 1.3 million homeless students enrolled in America’s public schools.

Type: Press Release

promises: Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

Mientras la nación enfrenta el problema de la disparidad en la graduación, un nuevo estudio de investigación sobre los estudiantes de Massachusetts cuya lengua materna no es el inglés sugiere una vía hacia el progreso orientada por los jóvenes para educad

May 11, 2017

BOSTON, 11 de mayo de 2017 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Los jóvenes cuya lengua materna no es el Inglés (FLNE por sus siglas en inglés) representan el segmento de más rápido crecimiento de población dentro de las escuelas públicas de los Estados Unidos. A pesar de que se ha demostrado que los estudiantes FLNE tienen un alto nivel de optimismo y motivación en lo que se relaciona con el progreso académico, los estudiantes FLNE siguen graduándose en un menor porcentaje que el promedio nacional. Muchos estados están buscando nuevas formas de apoyar a esta población estudiantil.

Type: Press Release

TAG: English Learners

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Press Release Type: Press Release

I Came Here to Learn

May 11, 2017

Students whose First Language is Not English (FLNE) make up the fastest growing segment of public school students across the country. In Massachusetts, one in five students is classified as FLNE. This report explores their experiences, challenges, and hopes for the future.

Type: Report

TAG: Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations, Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

As Country Grapples with Graduation Gaps, New Research on Mass. Students Whose First Language is Not English Suggests Youth-Led Path Forward for Educators, Policymakers

May 11, 2017

Youth whose First Language is Not English (FLNE) represent the fastest growing segment of the United States public school population. Despite evidence that FLNE students display high levels of optimism and motivation for academic advancement, they continue to graduate at lower rates than the national average.

Type: Press Release

TAG: English Learners, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, Center for Promise

Press Release Type: Press Release

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

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

Defining Webs of Support: A New Framework to Advance Understanding of Relationships and Youth Development

March 01, 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 people to thrive. This framework is composed of three key layers, each of which contributes to a young person’s development: relationships, resources, and networks/social capital.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Voice, Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Thriving, Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, Mentoring

SOURCE: Center for Promise

New Study Finds that for Every Seven More Adults in a Neighborhood, One Fewer Young Person Leaves School

October 10, 2016

The more adults in a community, the more young people stay on a path toward academic success, regardless of other factors that influence a young person’s educational trajectory, according to new research released today by the Center for Promise, the research institute of America’s Promise Alliance.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Black/African-American

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Family Engagement

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise, GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

Citi Foundation and America's Promise Alliance Announce Youth Opportunity Fund Grant Recipients in 10 U.S. Cities

July 25, 2016

The Citi Foundation and America’s Promise Alliance today announced that 12 nonprofit organizations have been selected as recipients of the Youth Opportunity Fund, a $3 million initiative to support city-level, innovative and scalable programs connecting more than 3,500 youth to opportunities that increase their employability and prepare them for lifelong success. 

Type: Press Release

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: College & Career, Family Engagement, Youth Involvement

campaigns & initiatives: Youth Opportunity Fund

Press Release Type: Press Release

Don't Forget the Families

November 25, 2015

In the midst of growing national interest in strengthening children’s “soft” or social-emotional skills as critical for learning, work, and life, a new study from Search Institute highlights the power of family relationships as a critical, but often neglected, factor in the development of character strengths in children.

Type: Resource

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places

channels: Family Engagement, Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Search Institute