New Report: Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth
Posted by on June 9, 2006
[posted from Public Education Network newsletter]
WHATEVER IT TAKES: RECONNECTING OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH
This new report documents what committed educators, policymakers, and community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream. It provides background on the serious high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what twelve communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment training. It also includes descriptions of major national program models serving out-of-school youth.
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