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Anne Stanton

As Director of the Youth program, Anne Stanton leads Irvine’s strategies to establish Linked Learning as the means to transform educational achievement for young people in California. View full bio »

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New Slideshow About Our Youth Program Strategy

BY Anne Stanton | Aug 09, 2012

One of the purposes of our website is to present clear information about what we are funding, why we are funding it, and what we hope to accomplish through our grantmaking. We hope to provide our grantees, grantseekers, and anyone interested in our work clear information about the impact we seek and how our grantmaking strategy is evolving.

With that in mind, we recently updated the section of our website dedicated to our Youth program. While our Youth program has been focused on building the field of Linked Learning for a number of years now, we have recently added components to our strategy to extend Linked Learning to postsecondary institutions and to serve out-of-school youth, so the updated web pages reflect this expansion. We also produced an audio slideshow that walks through all components of our Youth program strategy, with a focus on our work to build the field of Linked Learning.

Broadening the Benefits of Dual Enrollment

BY Anne Stanton | Jul 17, 2012

At a time when the need for higher levels of education is rising, we are pleased to report some good news: Participation in career-focused, dual enrollment programs correlates to positive, measurable improvements in outcomes for a population of young people who face serious barriers to gaining a postsecondary degree.

In 2008, we launched the Concurrent Courses initiative to make dual enrollment programs — which allow high school students to earn college credit — available to underachieving students or those who are from populations underrepresented in higher education. When we began, we were already aware of the benefits that dual enrollment holds for the high-achieving students who usually participate in these programs.

A new research report by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University, shows how eight programs across California effectively integrated dual enrollment with a complementary career-focused strategy to engage struggling students.

Finding the Education Values We Share

BY Anne Stanton | Mar 15, 2012

Polls show that most Californians agree that our system of public education is not working for far too many of California’s young people. But there’s a lot less unanimity about how to fix our schools. Moreover, the common perception is that the debate on education reform is divisive, partisan and unproductive.

With funding from Irvine, researchers at UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA) recently set out to discover whether there is more common ground on education than is commonly believed. Their new report, Finding Common Ground in Education Values, revealed that influential Californians across the political spectrum actually agree on a broad set of education values. The report is based on interviews with a bipartisan group of legislators, legislative staff, and leaders from business, labor and civic life. The report found broad agreement on:

A set of valued practices in teaching and learning, including active learning that allows students to participate in projects, and learning that can be applied in “real-world” settings;
A set of valued knowledge and skills, including using technology and working in teams to solve problems; and
Specific shortcomings of schools today, including an overreliance on testing that results in a narrow curriculum.