Links Category: Research, Resources

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Dan Bassill — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:59:00 GMT

DC Action for Children - Education policy
http://dcactionforchildren.org/kids-count/education
This site shows how data from the annual Kids Count is used in on-going effort to influence public policy regarding the well-being of kids.

Link 3001

Dan Bassill — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:27:00 GMT

Education data web site - U.S. Department of Education
http://www.eddataexpress.ed.gov/about.cfm
ED Data Express is a Web site designed to improve the public's ability to access and explore high-value state-level education data collected by the U.S. Department of Education.

This site has tremendous power to show data. This link points to a profile of Washington, DC. http://www.eddataexpress.ed.gov/state-report.cfm?state=DC&submit.x

Link 2914

Dan Bassill — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:01:00 GMT

Entrepreneurship Education: Enabling Teachers
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/files/education/teacher_education_for_entrepreneurship_final_report_en.pdf
This 2011 European Commission report defines "Entrepreneurship as an individual's ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation, showing initiative and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives."

It also says "entrepreneurship education means developing a culture which is through, for and about entrepreneurship. Such competencies are best acquired through people-led enquiry and discovery that enable students to turn ideas into action."

Educators and Business Leaders in the US should be reading this and developing US strategies to accomplish the same goals.

Link 2747

Dan Bassill — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:56:00 GMT

Facts showing racial disparities - and education gap in US
http://blackstarproject.org/action/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=4
The Black Star Project web site has a wealth of statistical information, articles and other information that communities can use to build a better understanding of the challenges facing minority communities. Use this information to support your own involvement in solving this problem by providing a wider range of learning and employment resources to young people and adults in these communities.

Link 2980

Dan Bassill — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:05:00 GMT

Mentoring Decreases Youth Violence - new research (2012)
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2012/10/04/in-chicago-proof-positive-that-mentoring-decreases-youth-violence
This article refers to a "large social science research study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab, in partnership with Chicago Public Schools and local nonprofits, which found that counseling and mentoring actually work." Read more. Follow the links to the research.

Link 2616

Dan Bassill — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:43:00 GMT

Nation's Ed System Failing too many - Pathways to Prosperity 2012
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2011/Pathways_to_Prosperity_Feb2011.pdf
"By concentrating too much on classroom-based academics with four-year college as a goal, the nation’s education system has failed vast numbers of students, who instead need solid preparation for careers requiring less than a bachelor’s degree, Harvard scholars say at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education"

Link 2819

Dan Bassill — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:58:00 GMT

Redefining Child and Family Services: Directions for the Future
http://www.chapinhall.org/sites/default/files/old_reports/436.pdf
This report published by The Center for Children at Chapin Hall in 1994 was originally issued as a white paper in December 1992.
The Tutor/Mentor Connection used the recommendations in this report as some of the fundamental reasons to launch the T/MC strategy in 1993. In 2011 the strategy was moved into the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC

Link 2600

Dan Bassill — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:56:00 GMT

Social Capital Role in Empowering Low-Status Youth
http://www.scribd.com/doc/63078471/A-Social-Capital-Framework-for-the-Empowerment-of-Low-status-Youth
The full title of this paper is "A Social Capital Framework for the Study of Institutional Agents & Their Role in the Empowerment of Low-status Students & Youth"
Written by Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education Rossier School of Education University of Southern California 3470 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, California 90089-4036
This paper provide rich thinking about the role "that non-family adults agents play in the social development, socialization, formal and informal education, and social mobility of adolescents" and provides many reasons to support mentor-rich non-school tutor/mentor programs operating in high poverty neighborhoods.

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Dan Bassill — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:25:00 GMT

Widening Achievement Gap between Rich and Poor
http://cepa.stanford.edu/content/widening-academic-achievement-gap-between-rich-and-poor-new-evidence-and-possible-explanations
This report by Sean Reardon, a Stanford professor of education and sociology, shows that the income achievement gap--the difference in the average standardized scores between children from families at the 10th percentile of income distribution and children at the 90th percentile--is now "nearly twice as large as the black-white achievement gap."

Link 2797

Dan Bassill — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:37:00 GMT

The Effects of Homicide on Life Expectancy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900567/
The title of this study is "Years off Your Life? The Effects of Homicide on Life Expectancy by Neighborhood and Race/Ethnicity in Los Angeles County"

This study shows that "Homicide was estimated to reduce life expectancy by 0.4 years for Los Angeles County residents and by 2.1 years for black males. The impact of homicide on life expectancy was higher in low-income neighborhoods."

Read more.

Link 3078

Dan Bassill — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:12:00 GMT

“The Role of Risk” a 2013 Study from Washington State Mentors
http://www.mdrc.org/sites/default/files/Role%20of%20Risk_Exec%20Sum-web%20final.pdf
From MENTOR newsletter: "This report presents results from the first large-scale evaluation to examine how the levels and types of risk youth face may influence their mentoring relationships and the benefits they derive from mentoring programs. The study looked closely at the backgrounds of participating youth and their mentors, the mentoring relationships that formed, the program supports that were offered, and the benefits youth received — and assessed how these varied for youth with differing “profiles” of risk.

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