Research and Reports: Youth Development
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This paper was prepared for the Boston Youth Council to provide assistance for their strategic planning process. It offers a profile of teens and young adults in Boston with a focus on their...
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This presentation examines how academic and social supports can ease the transition from high school to college.
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September 2010; Afterschool Alliance Many of the fastest-growing jobs in the service sector are and will be STEM-related, high-end occupations that include doctors, nurses, health technicians and...
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Kevin Coyle's 2010 report.
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This article from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform presents challenges of working to bring urban youth to academic proficiency. The authors propose some solutions and suggest an altered...
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This study from the David P. Weikert Center for Youth Program Quality, funded by the W.T. Grant Foundation, evaluates the Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI), a data-driven continuous...
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This report from the National League of Cities and the Institute for Youth Education...
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This report by the American Youth Policy Forum discusses essential components for “helping youth succeed through out-of-school time programs.” Benefits, challenges and other organizational issues are...
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Prepared by The Collaborative for Building After-School Systems (CBASS), a partnership dedicated to increasing the availability of quality after-school programming by building citywide after-school...
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This needs assessment by the Boston High-Risk Youth Network provides a profile of Boston’s high-risk youth population and a discussion of the issues relevant to this group. Interviews were conducted...
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This report from the Pathways to Prosperity Project reviews the current challenges of educational achievement in the United States and the resulting gap in skills for young people. Highlighted are...
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June 2010; Policy Studies Associates, Inc. Based in public school buildings in six cities around the country, Beacon community centers have, for close to 20 years, offered services in the evenings,...
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This issue brief, prepared by Priscilla Little for the Massachusetts Special Commission on After School and Out of School Time, provides a description of after school and how students benefit from...
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Tracking the College Enrollment, College Persistence and College Graduation Experiences of Boston Public School Graduates: Findings for the Classes of 2000 to 2008 presents results of transitions to...
