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The David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality is a joint venture between the Forum for Youth Investment and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. Its core mission is to position point of service quality as a powerful public idea that drives the out-of-school time field toward higher levels of understanding, expectation and action about the quality of experiences available to children and youth. The Center’s work is designed to complement the Forum’s broader efforts to manage a strategic communications, technical assistance and outreach agenda linked to its Ready by 21™ Initiative.