Add to ORKGDuring the needs assessment for Langley Park, a Latino Promise Neighborhood outside Washington, DC, the Urban Institute went into the community expecting to find a significant proportion of young people out of school and unemployed but instead found something else (Scott et al. 2014). The rates of disconnected youth were on par with national averages, but nearly 40 percent of young people between the ages of 16 and 19 were working and not in school. This raises several questions. Is this trend specific to this neighborhood, Latinos, or first- and second-generation immigrants? Or is it a clue to a larger trend
Employment prospects for teens and young adults in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas plumm...
Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between t...
Different countries have encountered the problem of increasing young people dropping out of schools....
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) this study co...
Dropping out of high school is correlated with lower employment prospects, teen and young adult preg...
Nationally, more than one in four high school freshmen does not graduate in four years; in the 50 la...
Looks at trends over the 1990s to document how the aggregate published Hispanic high school dropout ...
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) this study compare...
Much attention has been devoted to the implications of the aging of the U.S. population for the futu...
Out-of-school, or disconnected, youth are generally defined as young people between the ages of 16 –...
Black and Latino students graduate high school at lower rates compared to\ud white students. Using t...
In today's social context, the consequences of leaving school without a diploma are more costly for ...
This paper is based on a study on the effects of unauthorized migration on Latino children and youth...
Policy makers are especially concerned about persistently high dropout rates among U.S. Latinos, the...
Recent census figures indicate that, compared to all races and ethnic groups, Hispanic students had ...
Employment prospects for teens and young adults in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas plumm...
Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between t...
Different countries have encountered the problem of increasing young people dropping out of schools....
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) this study co...
Dropping out of high school is correlated with lower employment prospects, teen and young adult preg...
Nationally, more than one in four high school freshmen does not graduate in four years; in the 50 la...
Looks at trends over the 1990s to document how the aggregate published Hispanic high school dropout ...
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) this study compare...
Much attention has been devoted to the implications of the aging of the U.S. population for the futu...
Out-of-school, or disconnected, youth are generally defined as young people between the ages of 16 –...
Black and Latino students graduate high school at lower rates compared to\ud white students. Using t...
In today's social context, the consequences of leaving school without a diploma are more costly for ...
This paper is based on a study on the effects of unauthorized migration on Latino children and youth...
Policy makers are especially concerned about persistently high dropout rates among U.S. Latinos, the...
Recent census figures indicate that, compared to all races and ethnic groups, Hispanic students had ...
Employment prospects for teens and young adults in the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas plumm...
Because much of the concern about youth unemployment is motivated by the large differences between t...
Different countries have encountered the problem of increasing young people dropping out of schools....