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For almost 25 years, JFF has been a leader in helping state and district partners develop and implement a wide range of secondary school designs that prepare all students to succeed at the postsecondary level. These designs include early college h...
Leaders in high school policy and practice confront the dual challenge of significantly improving their graduation rates while simultaneously preparing graduates to succeed in college. To do this, they are complementing school ref...
JFF is developing Career First, a new postsecondary pathway offering young adults, ages 18-26, an alternative to a traditional two- or four-year degree. Career First is a highly focused program tailored to low-income, under-prepar...
Jobs for the Future is working to increase the range and number of high-quality pathways into and through postsecondary education for low-income young people. The GED to College Initiative is growing a new pathway that provides st...
The federal government has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to stimulate significant progress in solving the nation’s graduation crisis, according to this report from Jobs for the Future and the Everyone Graduates Center. While high schools wi...
Workers on the front lines of behavioral health play a critical role in the care of people with mental illness, substance abuse problems, and other disorders, yet these staff members often lack clear guidelines and training on how to perform their...
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2009
Early-College High School: Modest Experiment or National Movement? In 2002, the first early-college high schools opened their doors amid fanfare from funders and the eight organizations initially chosen to develop the initiative. Today, there are more than 200 early-college high schools serving 42,000 students in 24...
The large number of students entering community college needing developmental education, combined with the low number of students who complete their developmental requirements and meet college-ready standards within the first academic year, have m...
The federal government last reauthorized its investment in the nation’s workforce system in 1998 with the Workforce Investment Act. As Congress and the Obama Administration move forward with reauthorizing WIA, building on the successes of ...
President Barack Obama has called for intensified efforts to increase degree attainment in the United States, arguing that raising education attainment rates will sustain and enhance the country’s economic competitiveness globally.
Jobs for the Future commissioned this report to provide an international perspective on the productivity agenda of Making Opportunity Affordable, a multiyear initiative focused on increasing productivity within U.S. higher education, p...
A central challenge for education reformers is finding ways to promote the dramatic expansion of innovations that appear to be effective and scalable for students in danger of dropping out and for those who have dropped out. Reforms must encourage...
Stan Silverman, dean of the University of Akron’s Summit College in Ohio, gives his perspective on the college’s partnership with the Akron Public Schools. Akron Early College High School, based at Summit College, serves historically underserved...
15
2009
College and Career Readiness for All Texas High School Graduates This brief explains how Texas can implement a college-ready curriculum for all students, while preparing them for careers with advancement prospects and future academic success in two-year, four-year, and technical colleges. It shows how the state ca...
16
2009
Making Opportunity Affordable Newsletter The newsletter is reports on and supports State Opportunity Grants, a major element of the Making Opportunity Affordable initiative. Making Opportunity Affordable is a multiyear initiative focused on increasing productivity within U.S. higher educati...
On February 17, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the economic stimulus plan. Congress and the Obama Administration acted in the wake of an economic crisis spurred by a deepening rec...
Texas is a national leader in creating early college high schools, an innovative small school model that blends secondary and postsecondary education with intensive supports to increase college readiness and success for underachieving students. ...
On January 15, 2009, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, JFF’s Making a Difference breakfast focused on the commitment to education and economic development in Massachusetts over the last 25 years. Massachusetts leaders from education, business, g...
This four-page summary provides the most current data on the growth and impact of the Early College High School Initiative, including data on the schools’ impact on students, descriptions of the various types...
