Four Building Blocks for a System of Educational Opportunity: Developing Pathways to and through College for Urban Youth. From the Margins to the Mainstream.

Autor/inn/en	Steinberg, Adria; Almeida, Cheryl; Allen, Lili; Goldberger, Sue
Institution	Jobs for the Future, Boston, MA.
Titel	Four Building Blocks for a System of Educational Opportunity: Developing Pathways to and through College for Urban Youth. From the Margins to the Mainstream.
Quelle	(2003), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Access to Education; Demography; Disadvantaged Youth; Economic Impact; Educational Change; Educational Environment; High Schools; Higher Education; Low Income Groups; Nontraditional Education; Urban Education; Vocational Education; Youth Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Demografie; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Ökonomische Determinanten; Bildungsreform; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; High school; Oberschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Jugendsofortprogramm
Abstract	This paper is directed to policy and practice leaders interested in making urban secondary and postsecondary learning environments more widely available, especially to young people who have not been well-served by the large, impersonal high schools dominating most cities. Section 1, "Coming of Age in a Time of Economic and Demographic Change," reviews the demographic and economic trends that create an imperative to develop effective alternatives to the one-size-fits-all high school. Section 2, "New Ferment, New Opportunities," discusses the policy ferment and growing momentum for high school reform in urban centers that make the development of more varied and effective learning options possible. Section 3, "A Portfolio of Learning Environments for Urban Youth," highlights a range of learning environments that produce strong results for urban youths. These innovations cluster into four institutional forms that reach across the usual boundaries between secondary and postsecondary education, education and youth development, and employment and learning, providing building blocks for a redesigned system. Section 4, "Investing in New Learning Environments and Educational Pathways," presents a set of specific recommendations for policy and practice leaders committed to developing programs that work. (Contains 21 references.) (SM)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01