Youth Education for Tomorrow - A Literacy Initiative of Public/Private Ventures

by Amy J. A. Arbreton, Julie Goldsmith and Jessica Sheldon
December 2005, 58 pages

The James Irvine Foundation launched the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative in 1999 with the goal of improving the academic achievement of children in the lowest-performing schools in five California cities. In 2004, CORAL adopted a more targeted approach toward reaching this goal by integrating a regular schedule of literacy instruction into its after-school programs. This interim report, based on research conducted between Fall 2004 and Summer 2005, documents CORAL’s progress toward implementing high-quality and consistent literacy programming. The report presents early results in terms of youth’s positive reading gains and describes the program components that appear to have contributed to these gains. It also identifies challenges CORAL sites faced and successful strategies for addressing those challenges.

Philadelphia Youth Education for Tomorrow (YET) 2009-2010 Requests for Proposals
Requests for proposals for the 2009-2010 year will available in May 2009. Please direct requests to be placed on our mailing list or questions to Melissia McKittrick, Administrative Assistant at mmckittrick@ppv.org or (215) 557-4488.
	Launching Literacy in After-School Programs: Early Lessons from the CORAL Initiative
	by Amy J. A. Arbreton, Julie Goldsmith and Jessica Sheldon December 2005, 58 pages The James Irvine Foundation launched the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative in 1999 with the goal of improving the academic achievement of children in the lowest-performing schools in five California cities. In 2004, CORAL adopted a more targeted approach toward reaching this goal by integrating a regular schedule of literacy instruction into its after-school programs. This interim report, based on research conducted between Fall 2004 and Summer 2005, documents CORAL’s progress toward implementing high-quality and consistent literacy programming. The report presents early results in terms of youth’s positive reading gains and describes the program components that appear to have contributed to these gains. It also identifies challenges CORAL sites faced and successful strategies for addressing those challenges.