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Ready Thoughts: April 2012

Ready Thoughts: A Home Run for Quality Improvement

04/06/2012
Ready Thoughts: February 2012

Ready Thoughts: The Power of One

02/24/2012
Ready Thoughts: January 2011

Ready Thoughts: Ready, Willing and Able

01/30/2012
New Policies Should Align With Existing Goals and Plans for Children and Youth

To have a collective impact on child and youth outcomes, leaders must develop and implement a broad, long-term child and youth strategy, and be accountable for results. This can be a challenge. Policies often require the creation of strategic plans that are organized around a single, narrow topic.

01/11/2012
Forum Flash: December 2011

Forum Flash: Youth Jobs, Youth Engagement, OST

12/19/2011
Ready Partners: December 8, 2011

A story of achievement, sharing youth data, working training pays of

12/08/2011
Ready Thoughts: December 2011

Expanded Learning Time Does Not Equal Expanded Learning (click to download the PDF)

12/01/2011
Credentialed by 26, When Working Works: Employment & Postsecondary Success

Balancing work and school can hinder a young person’s success in higher education. However, the opposite can also be true: Good jobs facilitate student persistence and completion. So what does it look like when working works for students? That’s what we need to understand in order to transform employment opportunities into drivers of student success.

11/29/2011
Forum Flash: November 2011

Youth Organizing for Change, Creative Youth Programs and Lessons from Penn State

11/17/2011
Youth Organizing for Education Change Should young people be considered actors in school change, or simply the recipients of changed schools? Growing evidence and our own experience in the field suggest the former. Youth-led efforts to create change in schools, districts and education policy are on the rise. 11/15/2011