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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

Six Steps to Implementing Restorative Practices

August 14, 2018

In all the talk about the importance of reducing suspensions and other exclusionary discipline practices in schools, one question looms large for most educators and administrators: What do we do instead? For many people, part of the answer lies in restorative practices.

Type: News

TAG: School Discipline, Safe Schools, Youth Involvement

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Center for Promise

High School Students Get a Jump on College in Baltimore

June 26, 2018

All his life, Anthony Lloyd was told that he wouldn’t graduate high school. “Teachers, principals, just people everybody thought I was going to fail and end up in the streets. It was told to me so much I almost believed it.”

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation State Activation, GradNation Campaign

Community Leader Spotlight: Citizens for Educational Excellence

June 18, 2018

Dr. Janet M. Cunningham believes that, “as educators we should encourage all students to find their strengths, pursue post-secondary education, and utilize their strengths in finding a satisfying career.”

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways, Literacy, College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

A Michigan Grads Program Sets Its Sights High

May 30, 2018

“They might go to math class and wonder, ‘Why am I learning algebra?’ But if the career you want to pursue in, say, construction, will have you using those skills every day, you think about it differently. We get them to understand how the work they’re doing in school is related to what’s coming next.”

Type: News

TAG: College and Career Readiness, Career Pathways

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Why Pathways Matter

May 17, 2018

When America’s Promise talks about pathways, we’re often talking about the experiences, programs, or initiatives that help prepare young people for life after high school—often while they’re still in it. Since pathways are a key part of our GradNation Action Platform, and because it’s a term we use quite a lot, we think it’s worth exploring a little more.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Career Pathways

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

What’s Working: How Arizona Helps Young People Reconnect to School and Work

April 05, 2018

A new report from the Arizona Mayors Education Roundtable projects that high school non-completion and disconnected youth will cost the state upwards of $100 billion. Here’s how three Arizona communities are keeping young people on track towards completion, connection, and prosperity.

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways, Literacy, College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation State Activation, GradNation Campaign

Today's Entitled Youth

March 08, 2018

It’s a common, easy thing to dismiss young people who demand a better world than the one they were born into as arrogant, spoiled, and even naïve. Yet the Parkland students and too many other young people like them have survived extreme trauma and emerged braver, wiser, and more mature than anyone should have to be at their age. That does make them entitled—to share their story, get an education without fearing for their lives, and, one would hope, have adults listen.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Involvement, Youth Voice, Safe Schools

promises: Caring Adults, Opportunities to Help Others

A Two-Generation Approach

March 07, 2018

"Parents are their children’s first teacher,” NAZ President and CEO Sondra Samuels says. “An army of empowered parents are also the fuel needed to put pressure on systems to remove barriers to their families’ overall success and their children’s academic and life success."

Type: News

TAG: Career Pathways, Early Childhood, Using Data, Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, College and Career Readiness, Low-Income

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

Seven Young Leaders Making Black History Today

February 08, 2018

Young people across the country are improving media representation for people of color, promoting literacy education, speaking out against bullying, and much more. In honor of Black History Month, we compiled a list of seven African-American young leaders who are raising their voices, advocating for their causes, and fighting for a better future.

Type: News

TAG: Black/African-American, Youth Involvement

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

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign