photo: Christopher Gardner, keynote Speaker Igniting Innovation Gala
Why Should We Help Youth?
"I went through pain as a child so my children wouldn't have to. I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is. The rest of my destiny came forward because I made the right choices." -Christopher Gardner
According to Stephanie Bell-Rose, YES Group Chairperson, Managing Director Goldman Sachs, and Co. and President, Goldman Sachs Foundation, and Thomas Payzant, YES Group Vice-President, Professor of Practice at Harvard University School of Education and Former Superintendent Boston Public Schools, “The Federal School To Work Opportunities Act and other education policies suggest that students learn more and perform better when task and skills demonstrate relevance to their current and future lives . Evaluations studies of high-school level curricula in youth entrepreneurship report that students increase their aspirations, interest in college, reading, and leadership behavior after participation. Six months later, 70 percent of the alumni in a evaluation study cohort were in college, 63 percent had jobs, and one in three ran a small business. Perhaps most critically, the experience of a sense of ownership in their lives were four times higher for alumni of youth-entrepreneurship programs than for students who did not take such courses.”
Source: Youth Entrepreneurship Education in America- Aspen Institute https://assets.aspeninstitute.org
According to Stephanie Bell-Rose, YES Group Chairperson, Managing Director Goldman Sachs, and Co. and President, Goldman Sachs Foundation, and Thomas Payzant, YES Group Vice-President, Professor of Practice at Harvard University School of Education and Former Superintendent Boston Public Schools, “The Federal School To Work Opportunities Act and other education policies suggest that students learn more and perform better when task and skills demonstrate relevance to their current and future lives . Evaluations studies of high-school level curricula in youth entrepreneurship report that students increase their aspirations, interest in college, reading, and leadership behavior after participation. Six months later, 70 percent of the alumni in a evaluation study cohort were in college, 63 percent had jobs, and one in three ran a small business. Perhaps most critically, the experience of a sense of ownership in their lives were four times higher for alumni of youth-entrepreneurship programs than for students who did not take such courses.”
Source: Youth Entrepreneurship Education in America- Aspen Institute https://assets.aspeninstitute.org
