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- Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)
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Offering High School Credit Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
Overview This forum highlighted the New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunities (NH ELO) Initiative that seeks to offer credit to high school students f…
Blurring the Boundaries of School: How Providence, Rhode Island, is Taking a Community Approach to Expanded Learning Opportunities
OverviewThis forum showcased the AfterZone Initiative in Providence, RI, that has taken a community-wide approach to providing afterschool opportunities for mi…
Using Data to Improve Quality in City-wide Afterschool Systems: Lessons from Boston
This forum focused on efforts underway across the country to use data to improve the quality of city-wide afterschool systems and highlighted the work being do…
Using Data to Improve Quality in City-wide Afterschool Systems: Lessons from Providence
This forum highlighted findings from the latest Public/Private Ventures evaluation of AfterZone, as well as focused on key levers that improve program quality …
Online Learning: Changing the Face of Education
This forum focused on where progress stands in regards to online learning, as well as addressed the challenges of online learning, including program quality, o…
Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It
This forum highlighted findings from new book by Russell Rumberger, Vice Provost for Education Partnerships, University of California, Santa Barbara, that offe…
Career Pathways to Employment: Aligning Career and Technical Education to Labor Market Projections
This forum highlighted a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce entitled: Career Clusters: Forecasting High School thr…
The Impact of Higher Achievement’s Year-Round Out-of-School-Time Program on Academic Outcomes
This forum highlighted a new report from Higher Achievement, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that provides youth with a rigorous afterschool and academic summ…
Reducing High School Dropouts: Strategies to Help More Students be College and Career Ready
// OverviewTo succeed in today’s economy, young people must complete high school, yet a quarter of the nation’s youth do not earn a high school diploma. Our n…
The Challenges and Successes of School Turnaround: Looking Back and Charting the Course Forward
// OverviewTurning around low-performing schools has been a persistent challenge over the past few decades. This issue has taken on new urgency in recent years…
Successful School-Community Partnerships: Using Lessons Learned from Practice and Research to Expand Learning
OverviewAs policymakers and practitioners consider ways to provide high-quality learning opportunities to all students through expanded day and afterschool pro…
Transition to Adulthood: Roundtable Discussions on Practice and Policy
// OverviewAYPF, in collaboration with "The Future of Children", hosted a day-long event disseminating the research and findings of the Transition to Adulthood…
What You’ve Always Wanted to Know about Assessment But Were Afraid to Ask
OverviewThis briefing was exclusively for Congressional staff on the topic of assessment in education. It was an interactive, engaging session featuring Dr. An…
History and Overview of the ESEA
Overview This briefing was the first in a series of briefings designed to provide information to Congressional staff who work on education issues. This br…
Building Competency-Based Pathways: Successes and Challenges from Leaders in the Field
Overview This forum provided an overview of competency-based pathways to education and described programs that have successfully utilized these pathways t…
Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century
OverviewDespite decades of efforts to reform education and billions of dollars of expenditures, America is still failing to prepare millions of its young peopl…
Examining the Role of Summer Bridge Programs in Promoting College Readiness and Completion: Lessons Learned from Texas’ Developmental Summer Bridges
OverviewAs colleges across the nation strive to reduce the number of students requiring developmental education, summer bridge programs have emerged as a promi…
Leveraging Resources to Create Alternative Pathways to Education and Employment Training for Disconnected Youth
OverviewAs a nation, we continue to face a dropout problem of epic portions. In 2007, 16% of all young people aged 16-24 were high school dropouts (approximate…
Rethinking Professional Development: Comprehensive Approaches to Ensuring Effective Teaching
OverviewMany believe that teacher quality and teacher preparedness are the key factors to student achievement. Continuous high quality professional development…
School Improvement and School Turnaround: Local Accomplishments Of MetLife Foundation/NASSP Breakthrough Schools
OverviewThe first in a series of AYPF forums highlighting successful high school improvement strategies, this event featured three 2008 winners of the prestigi…