Peter Kleinbard will document the pathways to education and employment for young people who drop out of school and are unemployed–the disconnected youth.
Peter Kleinbard has extensive experience in working with adolescents and young adults. He established and directed the Young Adult Learning Academy and from 2001 to 2010, served as Executive Director of the Youth Development Institute.
How do local, community-based programs for dropouts work? Do they make a difference for their participants? Programs developed and managed locally serve large numbers of youth, and their innovations are often the foundation for major national initiatives, including YouthBuild, STRIVE, ...
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.