December 2009 Archived News Highlights

JFF Reports Examine the Impacts of Early College Schools

Jobs for The Future, with funding through the Gates Foundation, have released two reports pertinent to Early College’s goals.

The first, titled Innovations in College Readiness: How Early College Schools Are Preparing Students Underrepresented in Higher Education for College Success is based on data collected by JFF through the Early College High School Initiative. The report details the history, status, expected outcomes for Early Colleges and graduates, plus effective support systems for students and schools. The report can be downloaded here.

The second report, Graduating America: Meeting the Challenge of Low Graduation-Rate High Schools, in collaboration with JFF and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, explores the tools that schools, districts, and states can use to increase graduation rates and how to apply the right approaches for success. Click here to download.

Joy Coates to Visit School Sites

Joy Coates, Project Manager from Jobs for the Future, will be available to visit all of the school sites and offer one on one advice to the site coordinators. She will be visiting the weeks of December 7th, December 14th, and the week of January 11th.  If you have not already scheduled a visit, please contact Dawn Stevens immediately at: dstevens1@antioch.edu