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4/13/2007
Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants with Wendy Erisman, Senior Research Analyst and Director of Evaluation, Institute for Higher Education Policy, and Deborah A. Santiago, Vice President for Policy and Research, Excelencia in Education, and Margie McHugh, Co Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, Migration Policy Institute. (forum Brief)
3/31/2006
Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth: Two Public High School Principals Talk about How They Re-engage Dropouts (Release of Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth) with James Anderson, Principal, Horizonte Instruction and Training Center, William Tracy, Principal, Daylight/Twilight High School, Trenton, Nancy Martin, Senior Program Associate, American Youth Policy Forum, and Samuel Halperin, Senior Fellow, American Youth Policy Forum (forum brief)
10/17/2005
Increasing Transitions from Adult to Postsecondary Education with Forrest Chisman, Vice President, Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy, Gail Mellow, President, LaGuardia Community College, and Bob Bickerton, Associate Commissioner, MA Center for Lifelong Learning (FORUM Brief)
12/3/2004
What Do You Know About How the GED Tests Empower Young Adults? Joan Auchter, GED Testing Service Executive Director, stressed four major points in her presentation. First, GED Tests demand achievement. Second, GED Tests allow people to prove what they know. Third, GED diploma holders reflect the mosaic of America. Finally, GED Tests offer an opportunity to grow.  (Forum Brief)
4/20/2001
Workforce Development and Literacy in New Zealand and the U.S.A., with Alice Johnson, senior analyst at the National Institute of Literacy. (Forum Brief)

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Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth
This report documents what committed educators, policymakers, and community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream. It provides background on the serious high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what twelve communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment training. It also includes descriptions of major national program models serving out-of-school youth.