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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

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, 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

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

Hidden in Plain Sight

June 13, 2016

This report examines the growing problem of student homelessness by interviewing and surveying currently and formerly homeless students and the state coordinators and local liaisons assigned to help them. Written by a team of researchers at Civic Enterprises, a public policy and strategy firm, in association with Hart Research Associates, the study was released by America’s Promise Alliance, a leader of the GradNation campaign.

Type: Report

TAG: Special Populations, Grad Rate Data, ESSA

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Mentoring

SOURCE: Civic

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

How do out-of-school programs affect thriving?

November 25, 2015

Those who study youth development look to both external factors that affect youth (environment) and internal factors within the youth (personal attributes) that contribute to their positive growth.  Richard Lerner and his colleagues have also emphasized the importance of examining the interaction of person and environment to understand more completely how youth develop. 

Type: Resource

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

channels: Expanded Learning Time, Mentoring, Thriving, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: Thrive Foundation for Youth

The Role of National Service in Closing the Graduation Gap

September 04, 2014

Great progress has been made over the last decade to reach an 80 percent graduation rate, but for the one in five students still not graduating on time, more hard work is required to achieve the GradNation goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate by 2020.  For that reason, America’s Promise Alliance presents this paper that illustrates how national service is making a positive impact on young people and closing the graduation gap – from early literacy through high school graduation and beyond. Emerging evidence, described in this white paper, tells us that national service works.

Type: Resource

promises: Opportunities to Help Others, Caring Adults

channels: Mentoring

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance