CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK

POLICY AND ADVOCACY

Achieve: To support the development of state and local strategies to raise standards for earning a diploma and to improve high school graduation rates.

Alliance for Excellent Education: To promote policy for intermediate and adolescent literacy.

American Youth Policy Forum: To manage a dropout recovery discussion group, with the aim of developing a policy paper on improving high school retention and increasing dropout recovery efforts, and to organize field trips for national policymakers to see dropout prevention/recovery programs in the context of high school reform.

Center on Education Policy: To support monitoring of the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act at the state and district level.

National Association of State Boards of Education: To support the publication and dissemination of an adolescent literacy report.

PROGRAM OR PRACTICE

Academy for Educational Development: To support the Schools for a New Society Initiative.

Annenberg Institute for School Reform: To support the Schools for a New Society Initiative.

National Youth Employment Coalition: To support the development of financing options for struggling students.