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| Dropout Prevention Summit Planning Guide | The America’s Promise Alliance is supporting 50 state and at least 50 city Dropout Prevention Summits to be held by 2010. The purposes of the Dropout Prevention Summits are many, but the primary intention is to increase public awareness of the dropout and college-readiness crisis. |  | May 22, 2008 |
| Ready By 21 National Partner Profiles and Commitments | The six partners who in 2007 made formal commitments to work with the Forum to advance the Ready by 21 Challenge represent the education, government, non-profit, business and community philanthropy sectors. Each was chosen because they had pledged to do business differently and sought out the Forum to help in some way. |  | February 27, 2008 |
| Op-Ed: Ensuring Young People are Ready by 21 | Twenty five years ago, the blue ribbon National Commission on Excellence in Education stunned the country by declaring: | February 27, 2008 | |
| READY BY 21™: The Challenge | "The Challenge" is the definitive guide to the key ideas and resources behind the Ready by 21 Challenge. The Dilemma. Too few young people are entering adulthood ready and our collective efforts to make a difference are far too fragmented to have a big impact. |  | February 27, 2008 |
| State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth | This paper serves as the introduction for the State Children's Cabinets and Councils Series, a set of reports intended to capture and organize the decisions and experiences of more than 20 children's cabinets and councils and present them against an emerging set of expectations about what the public and policy makers could and should expect from them. |  | December 13, 2007 |
| Webinar on Creating State and Local Youth Policy Councils | This Webinar, held on December 3rd, 2007, offered an opportunity to hear firsthand about how youth from across the country are successfully engaging with policymakers in formal bodies called youth councils. The Forum also discussed the key principles of creating an effective youth council, which are outlined in the paper Building Effective Youth Councils. | December 3, 2007 | |
| Youth Ready by 21 - A 5-Year Action Agenda for Maryland | This report details the goals, strategies and action steps that members of the Leadership in Action Program (LAP) have determined as most critical to the long-term achievement of the result that all of Maryland’s children will enter school ready to learn. This Action Agenda is the result of lengthy deliberations and review of evidence-based proven practices by the LAP members. | October 31, 2007 | |
| Youth Ready by 21: A Five-Year Action Agenda for Maryland | In Maryland, there are many agencies, organizations, task forces and coalitions focused on various pieces of the puzzle needed to ensure that all youth are ready for adulthood. While aiming for similar ultimate goals, these groups are often working in parallel and occasionally at cross purposes due to funding streams and grant restrictions. |  | October 10, 2007 |
| Bartholomew County, IN Council for Youth Development Overview | The Council for Youth Development is a local coalition, supported by a successful, nationally-recognized program. The Council includes our school systems, youth -serving agencies, Government, United Way, and scores of agencies dedicated to helping prepare our children to be healthy, successful members of society. |  | August 8, 2007 |
| Building Effective Youth Councils: A Practical Guide to Engaging Youth in Policy Making | The guide is designed to help states and localities create or strengthen their own youth councils. It is a synthesis of theory and practice that provides a general framework for thinking about youth councils, explaining the principles for youth action and the importance of youth engagement. |  | July 15, 2007 |