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Over the last year, the 13 founding intermediary organizations of the Early College High School Initiative and their partners, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Jobs for the Future, reaffirmed and refined the core principles underlying th...
The strategies of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions derive from strong evidence that workforce partnerships or intermediaries and sectoral approaches work. This NFWS brief summarizes this evidence.
To inform anticipated reforms of the U.S. workforce development system, a new brief from the National Fund for Workforce Solutions describes its principles for effective efforts to make the system better for workers, employers, and regions:
On January 15, 2009, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, JFF’s Making a Difference breakfast will focus on the commitment to education and economic development in Massachusetts over the last 25 years. Massachusetts leaders from education, business...
This report prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor takes a close look at emerging trends that offer adult learners more flexible access to postsecondary courses and help to accelerate their progress through credential programs. The authors p...
Learning and Working highlights the challenges Jobs to Careers grantees have faced and their accomplishments over the first year of the initiative. Jobs to Careers, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, i...
How can states help working adults bolster pre-collegiate skills that restrain them from taking full advantage of college credit-level career and technical programs? Better Together offers examples of a better way to meet this challenge...
In January 2009, President-elect Barack Obama will take office and the 111th Congress will convene. They do so at a time when our country faces unparalleled economic and social challenges. Yet this is also a moment of historic opportunity, when go...
At a time of historic economic uncertainty, this Nellie Mae Education Foundation report finds that in order for New Englanders to prosper in a rapidly changing economy and society, there will need to be a change in the way all of the region’s ci...
Placement assessment policy, which governs how colleges assess the academic skills of entering students and place them in courses that are appropriate for their skill levels, can be an important lever for increasing s...
Increasing demand for at least some postsecondary education in today’s labor market has met with stagnating college completion rates. As a result, states have a growing interest in better understanding the challenges ...
The Science, Technology and Research Early College School, working closely with Brooklyn College—a partnership that has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation since 2003—has amassed an imp...
Postsecondary education, accompanied by a credential documenting mastered skills, is an important ticket out of poverty for a significant portion of the working population. However, even community college can be out o...
On Ramp to College reviews trends in a growing number of states that see dual enrollment as a way to expand college opportunity—particularly for students who might not be considered college-bound. The guide s...
Working for Health is the newsletter of Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care. It is produced by Jobs for the Future,
the National Program Office of the Jobs to Careers. Th...
A number of schools and school districts seek to revitalize their
partnerships with postsecondary institutions as a way to create pathways to
postsecondary education and training for all students, not just those who...
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...
The goal of Breaking Through, a collaboration of JFF and the National Council for Workforce Education, is to demonstrate that community colleges
can restructure themselves to create clear pathways for low-sk...
One of the most persistent inequities in U.S. education is the gap in math achievement along income and race lines. Yet some secondary schools “beat the odds,” producing consistently strong math performance with stude...
In 2007, several national foundations and the U.S. Department of Labor launched the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, a $50 million effort to strengthen and expand high-impact workforce development initi...
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