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Dropout Recovery Discussion Group Organization Profile

The Urban Institute

 

Contact Information:

 

Laudan Aron
Senior Research Associate
2100 M Street NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-261-5673
 LAron@ui.urban.org

Description of Organization

The Urban Institute (www.urban.org) is anon-profit, non-partisan public policy research organization that works on a wide variety of social and economic issues includingeducation, vulnerable youth, employment and training, etc.

Dropout Recovery Related Projects

Two reviews of "alternative education" for CS Mott Foundation and the US Department of Labor (focused on out of school youth).

An Overview of Alternative Education (2006)

Towards a Typology of Alternative Education Programs (2003)