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The High Stakes of Stakeholder Engagement: A Plea for Careful Planning from Public Agenda

Alison Kadlec
Feb 1, 2012

This post was written for the 20 community colleges participating in Completion by Design, a five-year Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative that aims to significantly increase completion rates for low-income students under 26. As a “National Assistance partner” for Completion by Design, Public Agenda provides direct assistance to the colleges to help them build capacity for solutions-oriented dialogue among faculty, staff and administration. Here, Public Agenda's Alison Kadlec discusses best practices for authentic internal stakeholder engagement. While the post is geared toward Completion by Design planning teams, the principles are useful for any authentic engagement process.

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You Can't Do It Alone: A New Guide to Creating Sustainable Change in Education Reform

Allison Rizzolo
Jan 24, 2012

Far too often, throughout our work in the education field, we've seen even the most earnest and promising ideas from experts and reformers for improving schools and ramping up student learning met with confusion, anxiety or even anger from teachers, parents, students or community members.

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What Americans Really Think About the Next Generation

Steve Farkas with Jean Johnson.

12/31/1996

A comprehensive study of Americans' attitudes toward our nation's youth, including a special focus on the views of African-American, Hispanic and white parents. Will today's children, once grown, make this country a better place? Are parents teaching their kids right from wrong? What solutions do Americans propose to the problems children face? These questions, and what kids have to say, are addressed in this study. 1997.

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Tags: Children, Drugs, families, Media, Parenting, parents, Sex, Teenagers, television, violence

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Re: Kids These Days

On August 6, 2010 tteens says:

The post is informative and listed out most of the detailed information on teenagers. In my view, in order to see better next generation it should be planned well in this generation. Parents need to play a crucial role for better next generation. Guiding children to a right direction is one of the primary responsibilities of each parent. It is a well known fact that if a teenager is not behaving properly, people scold teens parents of irresponsible parenting. Parents and school authorities need to be planned well to deal with today's teenagers.

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