Working Papers & Presentations
Connecting Youth through Multiple Pathways (2009)
Authors: Brinson, Dana; Hassel, Bryan; Rosch, Jacob
Public Impact; The Annie E. Casey Foundation
(excerpted from the Knowledge Center of The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Although about 20 percent of all youth will become at risk of disconnection at some time before reaching the age of 25, only 5 to 7 percent will reach age 25 without connecting in a meaningful way to employment and social support systems. This slide deck is a field scan of what selected school districts, foundations, and nonprofit organizations are doing to reconnect these young people to school and other social networks so that they are prepared for careers and further education. Individual slides can be taken from this deck and used in presentations. Click here (link to www.aecf.org) or download here.
Multiple Pathways to Graduation: In October 2005, New York State established the Office of Multiple Pathways to Graduation (OMPG) to analyze the situation and needs of the overage and under-credited high school student population — those most at risk for dropping out — and to develop a differentiated portfolio of educational models designed to bring these students to New York State graduation standards and prepare them for meaningful post-secondary opportunities.
This work is an outgrowth of the Department of Education’s commitment to bring all public school students to graduation, as first articulated in the 2002 Children First Reform agenda. The Multiple Pathways strategy leverages school reform momentum generated by the DOE’s aggressive New Small Schools initiative, Small Learning Communities Demonstration Project, Charter School Initiative, as well as instructional and professional development innovations.
Overage Under-Credited Youth in New York City (October 2006)
