Education
You are in the Education section of the Casey Foundation Knowledge Center, which offers resources that are either published or funded by the Casey Foundation.
See also the Our Work: Education, an overview of the Casey Foundation's investments in this issue.
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Connecting Youth through Multiple Pathways
2009
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.
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Ensuring Success for Young Children: Early Childhood Literacy
2009
Research shows that reading abilities in third grade act as a tell-tale barometer for later school success, since children who read at grade level are more likely to graduate from high school. And those who graduate from high school are more likely to pursue further education or get a job. This discussion guide for small foundations explores strategies for supporting nonprofits that provide early childhood education programs and services, especially those that focus on early childhood literacy and reading at grade level by third grade.
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The Connection Strategy: Preparing Young People to Succeed in College and Beyond
2008
For many young people, the "pipeline" to educational and economic success is truly broken. This report describes how some of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's education grantees in Atlanta are working to mend the pipeline for young people in their communities by connecting standards and expectations for learning from early childhood to college entry or the workforce and providing needed services, supports and partnerships that add value to the work of schools. The report discusses academic content and state policy strategies, and describes Casey's work in Atlanta as one example of what schools and community organizations can do to strengthen the pipeline.
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Youth at High Risk of Disconnection: A Data Update of Michael Wald and Tia Martinez’s Connected by 25: Improving the Life Chances of the Country’s Most Vulnerable 14-24 Year Olds
2008
“Disconnected” young adults are individuals who are not connected to social networks and experiencing long-term unemployment or incarceration. This slide deck, produced by Public Impact for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is an update of a 2003 data analysis of the number of disconnected youth in the U.S. population—young people who are dropouts, in foster care or the juvenile justice system, or teen mothers. It also has additional data on immigrant groups. Slides can be taken from the deck and used in new presentations.
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Present, Engaged, and Accounted For: The Critical Importance of Addressing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades
2008
Although students must be present and engaged to learn, thousands of this country’s youngest students are academically at-risk because of extended absences when they first embark upon their school careers. Nationally, an estimated one in ten kindergarten and first grade students are chronically absent (i.e., miss nearly a month or more of school over the course of a year). This report, commissioned by Casey, raises awareness of this issue, presents data on the scope of the challenge, and shares emerging insights about how to address it. The good news is that chronic early absence can be significantly reduced when schools, communities, and families join together to monitor and promote attendance, as well as to identify and address the factors that prevent young students from attending school every day.
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Ensuring Success For Young Children: Transition to Kindergarten
2009
Research shows that as much as half of school failure may be due to gaps in school readiness even before children transition to kindergarten. This discussion guide for small foundations explores strategies for supporting nonprofits that provide early childhood education programs and services, especially those that focus on ensuring school readiness and smoothing transition to kindergarten.
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Directory of Federal Funding Sources for Adult Education
2009
In Reach Higher, America the National Commission on Adult Literacy documents that existing federal adult education, training and English language programs reach only 3 million adults a year out of an estimated 88 million adults with at least one educational barrier. Given the lack of funding available for high quality services, the Casey Foundation commissioned Abt Associates to update their 2004 report on federal funding for adult basic education. This comprehensive guide is intended to highlight all of the potential federal fiscal resources available to support adult basic education.
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Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education
2009
The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act supports entrepreneurship in education through a $650 million “innovation fund” designed to encourage non-profits aimed at increasing student achievement to scale-up their initiatives. Recognizing that entrepreneurs in education often face barriers to success, this report presents creative solutions to address such barriers that prohibit success at the local, state, and federal levels.
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Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education (Executive Summary)
2009
This executive summary highlights the contents of Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education. The report, a product of both the Center for American Progress and the American Enterprise Institute, examines how state and federal regulations and policies have stymied the efforts of educational entrepreneurs and provides recommendations so that these entrepreneurs can expand innovations in education even when working within a bureaucracy.
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Public Charter School Dashboard 2009
2009
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ Dashboard, made possible with funding from both the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Danels Fund, documents the growth in the public charter school sector. To date, the dashboard contains the largest set of statistical indicators documenting the growth of the charter schools.
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