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News About Young People 24 Hours A Day

In 2006, 24/Y News was created of a belief that creative pre-professional learning can be a source of power for diverse underserved urban young people, but often they do not have access to learning opportunities environments that can help them to discover their creative voice and career potential. 24/Y News builds youth-professional collaborations that solve some of the most important questions to date:
• Young people explain the cause of rising drop-out rates and the expanding achievement gap by saying that school is not relevant
to their lives or their future, but they are fascinated with are trends, fashion and media - why not use those objects as entry points for learning? .
• Every CEO and marketing executive knows that underserved urban youth possess the creativity and market insight that forecast future market trends. CEO’s claim that creativity is their most valuable asset in industry today, and economists show that the creative sector is growing faster than Wall Street. Yet young people, who have the most desired commodity, remain outside of our educational system and at the bottom of our economy.
24/Y News uses a project-based youth development learning program where teenage journalists gain intensive communication and journalism training as they develop original news ideas, and service projects in partnership with a news or company partner.