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President Obama Highlights Two AHSI Organizations Working to Reduce Dropout Rate!
March 1, 2010
On March 1, 2010 President Obama and Secretary Duncan joined General Colin Powell and America’s Promise Alliance Chair Alma Powell for the announcement of Grad Nation — a 10-year campaign to mobilize America to reverse the dropout crisis and help America’s children be prepared for success in college, work and life.
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Diploma Plus approach specializes in educating dropouts
February 14, 2010
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
Written by Julia Steiny
February 14, 2010
A class of Charlestown (Mass.) High School students are riveted to their teacher’s lesson about plotting negative slopes. And smiling, to boot. With long dreadlocks pulled into a loose pony tail, Hayden Frederick-Clarke talks to the kids with a fascinating blend of rich, well-educated vocabulary and street syntax. [...] -
Gateway to College National Network Receives $13 Million to Expand Programs
January 22, 2010
Four foundations support promising program to help students earn college degrees
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Gateway to College National Network has received $13 million in grants from four leading foundations to expand a program that transforms high school dropouts into college-ready students.
Now in operation in 27 colleges in 16 states, these new investments will allow [...] -
Big Picture: A Better School Model?
November 16, 2009
by Sarah M. Fine
November 16, 2009
The Big Picture Learning Company structures high schools around the belief that kids learn best when they are doing what they love. In the world of American public education, this is nothing short of radical.
It is a chilly Thursday morning in Rhode Island and the Met School’s Media and Performing [...] -
Past Network News - October 16, 2009
October 16, 2009
A glimpse into this month’s edition of the AHSI Network News:
-AHSI Launches New Enterprise!
-Education Week Publishing Commentary on AHSI Place-Based Partnership Sites!
-EdVisions Announces Summer Institutes and Welcomes New Staff Member!
-Beyond the Bricks – Premiere Screening of Documentary Following Two Students From Newark! -
High School Alternatives
June 19, 2009
Vol. 28, Issue 35, Pages 27-29
Three cities are expanding learning options for students who struggle in traditional settings.
By Erik W. Robelen
Like a lot of other teenagers, Raven Ratcliff is a big fan of television’s “CSI” series. But she’s turned that interest in crime-scene investigations into something more: a real-world learning experience. As part of [...] -
City Education Leaders Gather to Explore High School, College, and Workforce Innovations
June 10, 2009
by Jonathan Rogers and Michael Karpman
At last week’s spring meeting of NLC’s Mayors’ Education Policy Advisors Network (EPAN) in San Francisco, more than 35 mayors’ education advisors joined representatives from the Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI) and Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI), along with other top education leaders from across the nation, to discuss [...] -
Nashville Leaders Form High-Level Group to Support Alternative High School Students
May 28, 2009
by Jonathan Rogers and Marjorie Cohen
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors recently joined Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Director Dr. Jesse Register and members of Alignment Nashville in forming a new committee that will enhance wraparound services for students in the city’s alternative high schools.
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National Forum on Re-Enrolling High School Dropouts
May 1, 2009
SHAPING A NATIONAL DISCUSSION TO DEVELOP RESOURCES TO BRING MORE DROPOUTS OFF THE STREETS
May 5, 2009
8am-11:15am
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC“My budget invests in developing…new efforts to give dropouts who want to return to school the help they need to graduate; and new ways to put those young men and women who have left [...]
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See Forever’s Oak Hill Academy Featured in Washington Post
April 14, 2009
School of Second Chances
The teachers at Oak Hill Academy approach their jobs with the faith that even the most hardened juvenile delinquents can achieve — and the knowledge that many still won’t
By Karen Houppert
Sunday, April 12, 2009; W18
The six teenage boys, incarcerated at the District’s Oak Hill juvenile detention facility in Laurel file into [...]
