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Posted December 29, 2006 December 2006 - Working Together: Aligning State Systems and Policies for Individual and Regional Prosperity - Provides six recommendations for aligning education, workforce, and economic development policies, Workforce Strategy Center. December 2006 - Homeland Insecurity ...American Children at Risk - Shows the challenges families face in raising healthy children and how government policy is failing many of these families, Every Child Matters Education Fund. December 2006 - Who Are America's Poor Children? The Official Story - Nearly 13 million American children (18 percent of all U.S. kids) live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $20,000 a year for a family of four. That’s up by 1.3 million children since 2000, National Center for Children in Poverty. Posted December 28, 2006 April 2006 - Our Voices, Our Future: Student and Teacher Views on Science, Technology & Education, Project Tomorrow. Posted December 21, 2006 December 2006 - Tough Choices or Tough Times (Executive Summary) - Recommends a major overhaul of U.S. public schools, New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. Posted November 30, 2006 October 2006 - Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers’ Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge And Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century Workforce, produced in collaboration with The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, and Society for Human Resource Management (Full Report). Posted November 29, 2006 November 2006 - Every Child, Every Promise: Turning Failure Into Action - Millions of American young people ages 6 to 17 experience very few, if any, of the five Promises that they need to build their character and competence, according to a new Search Institute/Child Trends study commissioned by America's Promise Alliance (Full Report). Posted November 21, 2006 November 2006 - Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities - The University of Minnesota wins an A grade in a new report for expanding access to students of color, but the U earns a D for the academic success of those students once they enter (Pioneer Press), Education Trust. Posted November 14, 2006 October 2006 - The Vital Center: A Federal-State Compact to Renew the Great Lakes Region - Despite business and manufacturing leadership, assets like research universities & natural amenities, the Great Lakes region struggles to develop the human capital, entrepreneurial culture, and dynamic metropolitan regions needed to compete globally. This report examines the challenges, and calls for a new federal-state compact for educational, economic, social, and infrastructure initiatives to renew the region's vitality, The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. ChildStats.gov - Statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education, Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Posted November 7, 2006 June 2006 - Diplomas Count: Minnesota, An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates, Education Week's Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. June 2006 - The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation, Committee for Economic Development. Posted November 5, 2006 September 2006 - Latino Students in our Public Schools: A Closer Look, Center for Rural Policy and Development. Posted November 1, 2006 September 2006 - Minnesota Education Trends, 2000 to 2005 - Describes trends in K-12 and higher education enrollment and graduation and summarizes educational attainment data from the 2005 American Community Survey, October 12, 2006, Minnesota State Demographic Center. Posted September 13, 2006 June 20, 2006 - 22 Minnesota School Districts, 45 Schools Recognized by Standard & Poor's. Saint Paul schools included:
at About the Issues > Achievement Gap > About Both > Parsing Saint Paul > Additional Resources Posted September 12, 2006 February 2004 - Moving On: Student Mobility and Affordable Housing, Metropolitan Housing Coalition. Posted September 6, 2006 July 11, 2006 - Creating Minnesota’s Plan for Career Development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, Minnesota Department of Education and Citizens League. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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