Best practices for out-of-school youth

Posted by on April 16, 2004

[posted from Public Education Network newsblast]

[ed note: one of the best practices featured is Temple University’s Youth VOICES program]

FROM THE PRISON TRACK TO THE COLLEGE TRACK

Taking aim at the “hidden, national crisis” that consigns nearly five million out-of-school and unemployed young adults to a future locked out of education and family-supporting jobs, Jobs For the Future (JFF) has called on policymakers and educators around the country to get behind a diversity of educational dropout prevention programs that successfully connect out-of-school youth with education and put them on a path to further study and solid employment. In “From the Prison Track to the College Track,” JFF reports on four types of new school programs that effectively move low-income, out-of-school youth, ages 16-24, toward completing high school and postsecondary education and training, and
gaining access to real employment opportunities. The programs make school success possible for young people whom the traditional system has failed.

http://www.jff.org/jff/newsroom/PR/2004/PR_4_14_2004.html


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