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The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan professional development organization, provides learning opportunities for policy leaders, practitioners and researchers working on youth and education issues at the national, state, and local levels.
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10 February 2012
Dual Enrollment: A Strategy for Improving College Readiness and Success for All Students
Overview Increasingly dual enrollment is becoming a strategy to encourage and support more students into postsecondary education and beyond. Yet, the research is only beginning to allow us to understand the long-term impacts on student success as well as the
15 July 2011
The Challenges and Successes of School Turnaround: Looking Back and Charting the Course Forward
Overview Turning around low-performing schools has been a persistent challenge over the past few decades. This issue has taken on new urgency in recent years against the backdrop of lagging US high school graduation and college completion rates, persistently high dropout
1 October 2009
Success at Every Step: How 23 Programs Support Youth on the Path to College and Beyond (2009)
Synopsis This publication describes 23 programs that have been proven to help young people successfully complete high school and be prepared for success in postsecondary education and careers. These programs represent a wide range of interventions, including school-wide reform initiatives,
27 April 2012
Building a Comprehensive System to Support All Students Getting to High School Graduation and Beyond
Overview If the U.S. is to increase the number of college graduates and boost our national competitiveness, we must redouble our efforts to ensure all students graduate from high school prepared for postsecondary learning and careers. This means creating comprehensive
25 April 2012
Creating State Accountability Systems that Measure College and Career Readiness for All Students
Overview This webinar examined how states’ education accountability systems can be refined to more accurately measure progress toward high school graduation and college and career readiness for all students, including those pursuing alternative pathways to graduation. We featured Colorado’s performance
26 March 2012
Supporting a Robust Teacher Pipeline: A Discussion of the Key Issues, Efforts, and the Role of Federal Policy
Overview Research has demonstrated that teacher quality and teacher preparedness are key factors to improving student achievement. In our continuous efforts to provide top quality education to all our nation’s students, we must also consider related efforts to improve our