After-School Grows Up: Helping Teens Prepare for the Future

Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom, Nicole Yohalem and Sam Piha:

From all corners of the country, concerns are growing among parents, educators, policy makers, employers, and students themselves, that a large number of teens are not engaged in their education, not on track to graduate from high school and/or not prepared to successfully transition into post-secondary education or the workforce.

These various stakeholders come at this concern from different perspectives but tend to agree on a definition of success, one that extends well beyond high school graduation. In short, young people need to be ready for college, work and life.1 Getting there requires a range of supports:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 2, 2009 1:32 AM
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