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What Works in Education Reform: Putting Young People at the Center	Given the difficulties and uncertainties of education reform, asking “what works” may be making simple and commonplace what is nearly always a messy and unfinished business. But the work of the International Youth Foundation's partners in 49 countries does reveal a common message of successful reform efforts: put young people at the center.	06/15/2003
Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development: Lessons and Voices from the Field	Public Libraries as Partners in Youth Development: Lessons and Voices from the Field, published by the Forum in partnership with the Urban Libraries Council, captures key challenges and lessons learned from an innovative, four-year initiative sponsored by the Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds that awarded six million dollars to nine library systems.	06/15/2003
Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #3: Reflections on System Building: Lessons from the After-School Movement	On February 3, 2003, the Bush Administration unveiled its request to cut funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program by 40 percent in fiscal year 2004.	05/01/2003
Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #2: High School After-School: What Is It? What Might It Be? Why Is It Important?	High school is becoming the next frontier for after-school advocates. The conceptual and practical leaps from programming for elementary and middle school students to high school students are significant, and the marketing challenges are huge.	03/01/2003
Preventing Problems, Promoting Development, Encouraging Engagement: Competing Priorities or Inseparable Goals?	This paper summarizes several major shifts that have occurred in the past 15 to 20 years in what researchers, policy makers and practitioners think about what young people need, what they get and where they get it.	03/01/2003
Moving an Out-of-School Agenda: Lessons and Challenges Across Cities	Recognizing the critical role of community-level change in moving an out-of-school agenda, the Forum began the GRASP Project — Greater Resources for After-School Programming — with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.	12/15/2002
Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #1: Out-of-School Research Meets After-School Policy	The past five years have seen a ground swell in public attention and public policy aimed at increasing the availability of after-school programs for children and young teens during the "risk" hours when safety, supervision and homework are of top concern.	10/01/2002
State Youth Policy: Helping All Youth to Grow Up Fully Prepared and Fully Engaged	While states have put in place scores of youth polices, no state can claim to have a single, coherent youth policy that serves as a lens for assessing and planning individual policies. However, across the countries, states are working to develop more coordinated approaches to youth policy.	06/01/2002
Results Accountability Guide	The Results Accountability Guide presents a practical how to guide for government and non-profit accountability. And it addresses the link between program accountability and community or population-level accountability. Many of these ideas can be easily implemented. The Results Accountability Guide provides a nice compliment to the Forum's Ready by 21 framework as planners begin to drill dow	05/15/2002
Learning Opportunities for Children and Youth: Expanding Commitments, Blurring the Lines	This publication shares the argument that communities should "blur the lines" between learning that happens inside the school and out in the community, during and outside of the school day.	04/01/2002