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NCFL Research: Two-Generation Program Promotes Meaningful Parent Engagement, Academic Achievement
Numerous studies over the past two decades show that parents’ educational attainment and their involvement in their child’s education leads to greater academic success for that child. Now, there is new research that shows how educational opportunities can impact children and adults simultaneously in many ways. The National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) recently released…
Kentucky Promise
Follow @SarahCHaight Above, participants at the Summit discuss public-private partnerships in rural America A few months after his January 1964 State of the Union speech, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood on the front steps of a home in East Appalachia, Kentucky and declared a “war on poverty” in the United States. The site was strategic…
Ascend Fellows Move Ideas Into Action
Follow @MekaeliaD Above, Ascend Fellows share their leadership values Last month, I spent three days with a diverse group of leaders at the final Forum of the Ascend Fellowship. Reflecting on my experience working with twenty remarkable individuals, I was faced with a bittersweet realization that the inaugural Ascend Fellowship had suddenly come…
Anne Mosle: Local and National Visionary
Follow @NickyGoren The 2013 Washington Area Women's Foundation Visionary Award Honorees from left to right: Anne Mosle, Marion Ballard, Sharon Williams and Rick Ballard Donna Callejon is a former board member and current Leadership Council co-chair of the Washington Area Women's Foundation. Nicky Goren is the current president of the Washington Area Women's Foundation. Aspen Institute Ascend Executive Director Anne Mosle has influenced…
Where the Jobs Are: Young Parents in the Private Sector
From left: Jonathan Njus; Denise Hebner; Leasie Clark; Elyse Rosenblum; and Kavitha Cardoza There are currently 6.7 million opportunity youth, ages 16-24 who are out of school and seeking work, and 1.4 million of those young adults are parents to more than 2 million children.[1] Through my work with employers, I know that while these…
Build, Buy, and Buy-in
Above, an Acelero Learning staff member and child participant Lots of brows furrowed in concentrated attention. That’s my visual memory of the Aspen Institute Forum on Innovations in Early Childhood, two beautiful September days with Ascend Fellows and national early childhood experts hosted at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s new headquarters in Los Altos,…