Ready by 21®

The Forum for Youth Investment’s vision that all children and youth are ready for college, work and life, has been further refined in their Ready by 21® campaign. By calling on all states and communities to change the odds for children and youth by changing the way we do business, the campaign provides a Big [...]

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Poverty Reduction Strategies

Ah, to live in D.C. & be able to attend events like the Brookings gig Diama writes about, below. (And yes, this could technically be a Comment, but then it’d be buried & relegated to the place where only Micah & Diama venture….) Since we’re NOT in D.C., we need to listen in on webinars [...]

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Annals of Vertical Integration, Part 1 of a Very Long Series

So our research team met this morning to discuss some data that Cindy, our program evaluator, has been analyzing. One critical question is “how do we measure our children’s likelihood of growing up to achieve economic self-sufficiency?” We know there are lots of imperfect predictors for graduating from high school (or dropping out) as well [...]

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The Initiative’s Resident Reader

Welcome to the second installment of welcome week. We’ll be here introducing the Tulsa Initiative team throughout the week and sharing our goals for this blog. My piece is about my research role for TI, so let’s dive in. When I tell friends and old classmates that I’m a researcher at a local anti-poverty agency, [...]

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Plugging the Grid: Youth Services Roundtable

I attended a Youth Services Roundtable today, hosted by the Mayor’s Office and organized by Monroe Nichols (who was kind enough to make sure everyone knew we were classmates at TU). A presenter from Arbor Education & Training (for-profit contractor for workforce and youth programs, among other things) discussed his collaboration in New York City [...]

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