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Explore hundreds of resources developed by our grantee partners on a wide variety of subjects related to adolescent thriving.

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Supporting Black Student and Educator Success: Reimagining Higher Education Institutions Through an African-Centric Lens

UC Davis Wheelhouse: The Center for Community College Leadership and Research

This brief documents learning journeys focused on strengthening experiences and outcomes for Black students, who are underrepresented in both college enrollment and success.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

Often Overlooked but Not Unseen: An Overview of Highly Mobile Youth in the U.S.

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

This brief provides a close look at the needs of highly mobile youth, identifies the systematic barriers these students face, and proposes targeted interventions to address their needs.

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California’s Local Control Funding Formula: Next Steps Toward Equity

Learning Policy Institute

This report reviews how California’s Local Control Funding Formula has helped to improve student outcomes, points to challenges in its fiscal design, and highlights opportunities to strengthen it.

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Trump 2.0 Federal Revenue Tool

Education Law Center

An interactive tool that projects revenue losses in each state as the result of potential federal funding cuts to education.

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Learner-Centered Ecosystem

Learner-Centered Collaborative

This resource outlines a new framework for education systems and learning experiences to create a learner-centered paradigm that brings out the best in each and every learner.

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Funding Student Needs: A Review of State Funding Policies for English Learners and Students From Low-Income Backgrounds

Learning Policy Institute

From an analysis of state legislative and policy documents, this report reviews how states’ school funding programs currently address the needs of English learners and students from low-income families.

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2025 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being

Children Now

An interactive, online report that delivers a comprehensive picture of children’s health, education, and welfare in each of California’s 58 counties.

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OpinionatED: Voters’ Views on Education in 2024

All4Ed

A 2024 election exit poll highlights what voters believe about public schools, federal education policy and spending, and ideas to improve education for the nation’s students.

Taking Reform to Scale: Learning from California Education Partners’ Collaborations

Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)

The brief describes California Education Partners’ multistage approach to district systems change that helps address persistent barriers to improvement.

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Understanding Belongingness, Support, and Perseverance: An Exploratory Study of the Educational Experiences of Foster Youth in California

University of California, Los Angeles Center for Transformation of Schools

A study that explores how youth in foster care experience the foster care system, high school, and college, offering recommendations for these systems to better support these young people.

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Cultivating Relationships in Secondary Classrooms: Practices That Matter

Learning Policy Institute

This brief elevates the approaches that secondary school educators and staff can use to put relationships and caring at the center of their classroom practice.

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Cultivating Relationships in Secondary Schools: Structures That Matter

Learning Policy Institute

This brief highlights structures that can foster relationship-building among students, teachers, and families in secondary schools.

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The Costs of Conflict: The Fiscal Impact of Culturally Divisive Conflict on Public Schools in the United States

University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

A survey of school superintendents provides estimates of the fiscal and other costs of culturally divisive conflicts that are disrupting school districts, schools, and classrooms.

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STEPS for Youth

UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent

An online tool that provides resources on adolescent brain and social development to help policymakers and other youth-focused professionals create more effective policies to support young people.

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Youth Civic Empowerment

YouthTruth

A report offering insight into the current state of youth civic empowerment, revealing troubling patterns of inequity in civic readiness.

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Navigating Change: Strategies to Strengthen California High Schools Amid Declining Enrollment

Bellwether

A report providing guidance on how districts in California and elsewhere can respond to declining enrollment in ways that strengthen high schools.

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Growth Interrupted: An Update on Dual Enrollment Participation Among Public High School Graduates

Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)

This series of charts highlights trends in dual enrollment in public high schools since 2016, finding that growth in participation was disrupted by the pandemic and that equity gaps persist.

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Redesigning High School: 10 Features for Success

Learning Policy Institute

A report that highlights ten features of effectively redesigned high schools and examples of schools putting these features into practice to create powerful learning opportunities for youth.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The Urgent Need for Child-Centered Artificial Intelligence Policies

National Center for Youth Law

This brief is a call to action for policymakers and stakeholders to prioritize the interests and rights of children and youth in discussions about AI regulation and policy.

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On the Threshold of Change

California Youth Connection

A report using strategic foresight to develop a vision in response to the future forces that will dramatically change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people who will experience foster care over the next decade as they make the difficult transition to adulthood.