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Download full textSchwartz, Amy Ellen; Leos-Urbel, Jacob; Silander, Megan; Wiswall, Matt – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2014
Holding a summer job is a rite of passage in American adolescence, a first rung towards adulthood and self-sufficiency. However, over the past decade, youth employment during the summer has decreased significantly. Summer youth employment has the potential to benefit high school students' educational outcomes and employment trajectories,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Student Employment, Youth, Employment Level
McDaniel, Marla; Simms, Margaret C.; Monson, William; de Leon, Erwin – Urban Institute, 2015
Knowing the economic challenges young fathers without postsecondary education face in providing for their families, New York City's Young Men's Initiative launched a fatherhood program housed in LaGuardia Community College in spring 2012. The CUNY Fatherhood Academy (CFA) aims to connect young fathers to academic and employment opportunities while…
Descriptors: Fathers, Urban Areas, Parent Education, Community Colleges
McDaniel, Marla; Simms, Margaret C.; Monson, William; de Leon, Erwin – Urban Institute, 2015
Knowing the economic challenges young fathers without postsecondary education face in providing for their families, New York City's Young Men's Initiative launched a fatherhood program housed in LaGuardia Community College in spring 2012. The CUNY Fatherhood Academy (CFA) aims to connect young fathers to academic and employment opportunities while…
Descriptors: Fathers, Urban Areas, Parent Education, Community Colleges
Direct linkWyckoff, Laura; Cooney, Siobhan M.; Djakovic, Danijela Korom; McClanahan, Wendy S. – Public/Private Ventures, 2008
This report, the first in a series relating to disconnected young adults commissioned by JobsFirst NYC, examines what is known about New York City's disconnected youth--16 to 24 year-olds who are not working and not in school. The report explores the roots of disconnection and identifies five priority populations of young people who are at high…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Young Adults, Disadvantaged Youth, Youth Opportunities
Veres, Helen C. – 1979
A study was conducted to (1) identify continuing education needs and barriers to adult participation in New York State (excluding New York City); (2) collect information about adult education services and staff development priorities in programs sponsored by public schools, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, and two-year state colleges;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Basic Skills
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2005
Two national studies paint a portrait of the bumpy road that many students face after high school and suggest that better academic preparation and guidance could have smoothed the way. The studies, each based primarily on separate surveys of 1,300 or more 18- to 25-year-olds, come from Public Agenda, a nonprofit opinion-research group in New York…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Ethnic Groups, High School Students, Academic Standards
Correctional Association of New York, New York. – 1990
New York State's prisons today are a brooding omnipresence hanging over poor African American and Latino communities in the large urban centers of the state. On any given day, nearly 1 in 4 (over 23%) of young African American men is under control of the criminal justice system, which is 2 times more than all full-time Black male college enrollees…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Correctional Institutions, Criminals
Iowa Univ., Iowa City. Recreation Education Program. – 1976
Presented are duplications of the responses given by ANCHOR (Answering the Needs of Children with Handicaps through Organized Recreation) (Hempstead, New York) as part of a project to collect, share, and compile information about, and techniques in the operation of 18 community action models for recreation services to the disabled. Model programs…
Descriptors: Activities, Budgets, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Colley, Debra A. – 1997
This paper discusses the results of an investigation that evaluated the outcomes of former students with disabilities who received special education transition services in New York State. The evaluation included a survey of 225 high school vocational rehabilitation case records and post-school interviews with 720 former special education students.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment
