Peter Kleinbard will document the pathways to education and employment for young people who drop out of school and are unemployed–the disconnected youth.
Funds were given to JOBSFIRSTNYC in support of their work with Public/Private Ventures on a project to develop a set of basic interim outcome measures that could be used across workforce development programs, particularly for young adult programs.
Support was given to evaluate and disseminate findings from National Youth Employment Coalition’s (NYEC) Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet) Pilot Accreditation for Youth Workforce Programs.
With funding from the William T. Grant Foundation, I have been engaged in a multi-year evaluation with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development to assess the impact of the city’s summer jobs program on criminal justice, academic ...
In “The New Forgotten Half and Research Directions to Support Them,” James Rosenbaum and colleagues find that many young people who enroll in community college fail to complete their studies and attain a degree, and that these youth fare no ...
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.
