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Prof. Paul Harrington gave a talk titled, Discouraged and Disconnected: A Look at the Growing Problem of High School Dropouts and Jobless Youth at the Conference of Mayors Summit on At-Risk Youth in Miami, FL on March 23, 2007.
Prof. Andrew Sum was quoted in Bob Herbert’s column titled, “Education, Education, Education”¸ The New York Times, March 5, 2007. Herbert’s piece referenced a new report from CLMS titled, The Educational Attainment of the Nation's Young Black Men and Their Recent Labor Market Experiences: What Can Be Done to Improve Their Future Labor Market and Educational Prospects? This report was prepared for Jobs for America’s Graduates and was released at a conference on March 8, 2007.
On March 5th, Andrew Sum was the keynote speaker at the “Graduation Summit: The Power of Community Partnerships” at the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Department of Education co-sponsored this conference to discuss the release of the state’s new graduation rate data. Over 500 state and local leaders and practitioners who work with pre-K to 12 children in Massachusetts attended this conference.
On the afternoon of February 28, 2007 Andrew Sum was a panelist on “Workforce Development Session” at the conference on Tough Choices or Tough Times: Massachusetts Examines its Future Workforce at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, February 28, 2007.