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Other Materials and Resources


Reports

One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities
By Paul Barton, Policy Evaluation and Research Center, Policy Information Center Educational Testing Service: February 2005

Sustaining STC Principles in High School Re-Design

Big Buildings, Small Schools: Using a Small Schools Strategy for High School Reform
By Lili Allen and Adria Steinberg, Jobs for the Future: December 2004

Prepared remarks by Bill Gates to the National Governors Association
By Bill Gates, National Education Summit on High Schools:  February 2005
 

Ready? Set. Go! Getting it Done: Ten Steps to a State Action Agenda
National Governors Association: 2005

Open to the Public: Speaking Out on "No Child Left Behind"
Public Education Network Summary of Nine Hearings: May - October 2004

Supporting Youth in the Workplace through High Quality Work-Based Learning

Massachusetts Work-Based Learning Plan
Boston Private Industry Council: September 2001

Engaging Workplace Partners: Organizational Quality Characteristics
New Ways to Work, Framework and Narrative: Updated 2005

Engaging Workplace Partners: An Engagement Specialist's Quick Guide
New Ways to Work: Updated 2005

Workplace Partner Guide to the Work-Based Learning Plan and Evaluation Tool
New Ways to Work, Excerpt from the Kansas City Work-Based Learning Toolkit: 2003

Creating Quality Work-Based Learning; Narratives, Frameworks and Tools
New Ways to Work, Excerpts from the Kansas City and California WBL Toolkits: 2001 - 2004

Quality Work-Based Learning: "Taking it to the Next Level"
New Ways to Work, Worksheet Excerpted from the Kansas City, Kansas WBL Toolkit: 2003

Serving Special Populations

(Out-of school youth, foster youth, youth in the juvenile justice system, and  youth with disabilities)

Educational Alternatives for Vulnerable Youth: Student Needs, Program Types, and  Research Directions
By Laudan Y. Aron, Janine M. Zwei, Urban Institute: November 2003

New Strategic Vision for the Delivery of Youth Services Under the Workforce Investment Act
Employment and Training Administration, US Department of Labor: 2005

The New Strategic Vision Booklet
The Department of Labor has released a new booklet entitled The New Strategic Vision
for the Delivery of Youth Services under the Workforce Investment Act

Connected by 25: A Plan for Investing in Successful Futures for Foster Youth
Youth Transition Funders Foster Care Work Group with the Finance Project: 2004

Making the Connections: Growing and Supporting New Organizations: Intermediaries
The Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) of the US Department of Labor (DOL)

Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce and Youth Development for Young Offenders
Brown, DeJesus, Maxwell and Schiraldi for the Annie E Casey Foundation: 2004

Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG)
Youth Transition Funders Group: 2005

Locating the Dropout Crisis - Which High Schools Produce the Nation's Dropouts? Where Are They Located? Who Attends Them?
By Balfanz and Legters, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University:
June 2004

Sustaining Systems-Building Activities in the
Current Targeted Program Environment

Ready By 21
Forum for Youth Investment: 2004

Federal Youth Coordination Act: Fact Sheet
National Collaboration for Youth: February 2005

Elements of a Comprehensive Youth-Serving System: Frameworks and Narrative
New Ways to Work: 2000 - 2005

 



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