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The Ready by 21 National Partnership is proud to announce the awardees of the Ready by 21 Quality Improvement & Asset Building Challenge Grants (Q&A Challenge). Wicomico County, MD; Asheville, NC; and Ft. Myers, FL showed a broad cross-sector commitment building assets for children and youth and so were selected to be part of the Q&A Challenge first cohort.

On June 30, the Forum convened the Children's Cabinet Network in Washington, DC to meet with federal policymakers about improving coordination between state and national youth policy.

On August 3-4, the Forum offered a Ready by 21 Institute in Washington, D.C. The training’s main objective was to expand participants’ understanding of the rationale and thinking behind the Ready by 21 strategies and increase the knowledge base on the research behind Ready by 21, as well as the practical and conceptual tools that help to convey it.

On August 25, Karen Pittman will be a featured panelist at a summit hosted by Gallup, a Ready by 21 National Partner, and Phi Delta Kappa International, the world’s premier professional association for educators. "School of Thought: Data-Driven Insights to Inform Education Policy" will share new research and insights on the current state of American education.

On July 26-27, the Forum for Youth Investment and the William T. Grant Foundation convened an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are all launching studies about the acquisition, use and interpretation of research evidence in policy and practice.

Forum staff Nicole Yohalem and Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom and the Weikart Center's Executive Director Charles Smith have been published in a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP), Developing and Improving After-School Programs to Enhance Youth’s Personal Growth and Adjustment: A Special Issue of AJCP. This issue examines the current state of afterschool progr

At the Making Ohio Schools Work conference, twenty school administrators from the Buckeye state discussed how Ready by 21 could be applied to their districts and schools. This workshop is part of the American Association of School Administrators' (AASA) strategy to meet educational leaders where they are -- in this case, at their state administrator conferences.

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the Stupski Foundation established the Partnership for Next Generation Learning in November 2009 with six states, Kentucky, Maine, New York, Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin, to improve local public education systems.