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- Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA)
- 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC)
- Carl D. Perkins Act
- Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
- Higher Education Act (HEA)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- State-Level Policies
- Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
Citizen Schools: Expanding Learning Opportunities to Prepare Middle School Students for High School Success
OverviewIncreasingly, policymakers and practitioners are interested in ELOs for various reasons. This forum, the second in a four-part series on Extended Learn…
Improving the Quality of Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) Serving Older Youth
OverviewParticipation in high-quality “Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs)” is associated with an increase in academic achievement, school attendance, time …
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The Role of Expanded Learning Opportunities in Preparing Youth for College and Career Success
OverviewAYPF hosted a field trip to Boston from October 12-14 for a group of federal policymakers to examine, “The Role of Expanded Learning Opportunities in P…
Using Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) to Manage Key Transition Periods for At-Risk Youth
OverviewThe American Youth Policy Forum hosted a discussion group to explore how Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) are being used to manage key transition…
Increasing Capacity and Quality in Afterschool Programs: Lessons learned from New York City’s Beacons
OverviewBeacons are one of the nation's first citywide after school initiatives and now operate in five cities, serving more than 150,000 children, youth, and …
Envisioning a Different School Day: How Boston and New York Are Using Expanded Learning Time
Overview As we seek to prepare students for college and career success in the 21st Century, there has been a great deal of discussion around modernizing t…
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…
Building a Better School Day: The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative
OverviewThis webinar examined the creation, implementation, and results of the Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time Initiative. Presenters highlighted the need…
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 and Inquiry to Build Equity-Focused College-Going Cultures
This webinar focused on how to use data and inquiry to promote an equity-based college-going culture through the use of the Equity Scorecard.
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 …
The Impact of Higher Achievement’s Year-Round Out-of-School-Time Program on Academic Outcomes
This webinar highlighted Higher Achievement, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit that provides youth with a rigorous afterschool and academic summer experience.
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…
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…
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Aligning K-12 and Higher Education to Support College and Career Readiness and Success
OverviewThis study mission for state policymakers focused on how policies can strengthen the alignment of expectations and resources across the educational pip…
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…
How Rural High Schools are Preparing Students for College and Careers through Dual Enrollment and Career and Technical Education
OverviewThis webinar described how rural schools are preparing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in college and in jobs by crea…
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…