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12,819	READY BY 21®: The Challenge	"The Challenge" is the definitive guide to the key ideas and resources behind Ready by 21®. 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.
10,717	Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools, 2nd Edition	Program quality assessment and improvement continue to be central themes in the after-school and youth development fields. In March 2007 we released the first edition of this report comparing the purpose, history, structure, methodology, content and technical properties of different program observation tools.
9,529	Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools, Second Edition	Program quality assessment and improvement continue to be central themes in the after-school and youth development fields. In March 2007 we released the first edition of this report comparing the purpose, history, structure, methodology, content and technical properties of different program observation tools.
9,529	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.
5,861	State Children's Cabinets and Councils Series	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.
5,176	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, nonprofit, 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.
5,013	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:
4,752	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.
4,616	Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #12: Unpacking Youth Work Practice	The Forum's OST Policy Commentary series is back! In this issue we discuss the implications of recent research led by Bart Hirsch, Reed Larson and Charles Smith. Each study helps deepen our understanding of youth work practice and can inform policy strategies aimed at developing a strong, stable, committed and prepared OST workforce.
4,607	Out of School Time Policy Commentary #14: "After School Grows Up: Helping Teens Prepare for the Future"	This commentary takes readers on a cross-country tour of after-school innovation – from northern and southern California to Chicago, New York and New Hampshire. In On the Ground we describe two very different school-based models in California.