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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)
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…
Working Collaboratively Across Systems to Better Serve Youth
OverviewThis meeting provided participants with an opportunity to revisit and delve deeper into the main themes and questions raised by the previous three meet…
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…
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Exploring Innovative Schools and Policies that Prepare Students to be College and Career Ready
Overview The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) is a nonprofit professional development organization that provides learning opportunities for policymakers…
Offering High School Credit Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
OverviewThis webinar highlighted the New Hampshire Extended Learning Opportunities (NH ELO) Initiative that seeks to offer credit to high school students for o…
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…
- March 21, 2009
Learning Around the Clock: Benefits of Expanded Learning Opportunities for Older Youth (2009)
SynopsisThis publication identifies and describes Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) that improve academic performance, college and career preparation, soc…
Building Afterschool Capacity at the Local Level: Spotlight on the NYC City-Wide Out-of-School Time Initiative
OverviewAfterschool/Out-of-School Time (OST) programs provide extended learning opportunities to help youth succeed academically and develop important social, …
- October 3, 2006
Preparing Youth for Careers, Lifelong Learning, and Civic Participation
SynopsisThis paper is designed for practitioners in both the public and non-governmental sectors who design and implement youth employment and youth developmen…
- July 1, 2006
Federal, State, and Local Roles Supporting Alternative Education
SynopsisThis paper examines the roles that various levels of government play through legislation, policy, and other initiatives that support quality alternativ…
- November 1, 2005
Enhancing High School Reform: Lessons from Site Visits to Four Cities
SynopsisAYPF conducted site visits to San Diego, California in May 2003; Cleveland, Ohio in December 2003; New York City, New York in January 2004; and Boston,…
- June 1, 2004
Does Religious Participation Help Keep Adolescents in School?
SynopsisThe purpose of this study is to compare the role of “religious” and “secular” participation during the adolescent years in promoting educational “succe…
- September 30, 2003
WIA Learning Exchange for Youth Systems
SynopsisThe WIA Learning Exchanges for Youth Systems were designed to stimulate a rich professional development experience, grounded in peer-to-peer learning a…
- August 5, 2003
Shaping the Future of American Youth: Youth Policy in the 21st Century
SynopsisCommissioned to celebrate AYPF’s decade of service to the youth policy community, this is a compendium of four major analytic papers and nine brisk com…
- August 4, 2003
Finding Fortune in Thirteen Out-of-School Time Programs
SynopsisThis report, which summarizes the evaluations of 13 Out-of-School Time (OST) programs, represents AYPF’s continued commitment to establish “what works”…
- June 12, 2003
Building an Effective Citizenry: Lessons Learned From Initiatives in Youth Engagement
In 2002-2003, American Youth Policy Forum conducted a series of Capitol Hill forums featuring initiatives and research on youth engagement and field trips to s…
- March 22, 2003
Essentials of High School Reform (2003)
SynopsisThis report speaks to a concern that much attention is being paid to greater academic achievement in core subjects, resulting in little focus on improv…
- January 22, 2002
Finding Common Ground: Service-Learning and Education Reform
SynopsisAn AYPF report reveals areas of compatibility between Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) programs leaders in education reform and elements of service-le…
- September 21, 2000
High Schools of the Millennium: Report of the Workgroup
SynopsisThe High Schools of the Millennium Report argues for a new vision of high school, one that uses all the resources of the community to create smaller le…