Skills for disadvantaged youth: American lessons.

Summary The mission of any training and education system should be to ensure that all young people, regardless of their social background, have the skills that guarantee their independence. In France, however, we allow nearly 120,000 young people to leave school each year without any qualifications due to a lack of early intervention and adapted methods. However, it is possible to change the destiny of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, as the rich American experience in this area shows. For nearly four decades, the United States has invested tens of billions of dollars each year in innovative programs, and has evaluated their impact on the future of young people. By analyzing what has proven to be the most effective American practices over the long term, Stéphane Carcillo proposes a radically new approach to supporting young people in difficulty on their way to work.