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Incentives for Early Graduation: How Can State Policies Encourage Students to Complete High School in Less than Four Years?
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JFF's national initiatives serve in-school students, out-of-school youth, and working adults who need multiple pathways to advance their learning and their careers. Our successes prove that dramatic change is possible when good ideas have room to grow—and when change leads to a stronger, more productive nation.
High School Through College
- Achieving the Dream
Helping community college students earn valued credentials and using data to track and ensure student success... read more - Completion by Design
A five-year initiative that works with community colleges to significantly increase completion and graduation rates for low-income students under 26.... read more - Early College High School Initiative
Blending high school and college in a rigorous yet supportive program, compressing the time it takes to complete both a high school diploma and a college degree... read more - Early College High School Week
The third annual nationwide celebration of early college high schools' contribution to preparing thousands of underrepresented youth for college... read more - Students at the Center
Students at the Center synthesizes existing research on key components of student-centered approaches to learning.... read more - University Park Campus School Institute for Student Success
A training program to help schools prepare all students for college-level work, regardless of their incoming skill level... read more
Pathways Through Postsecondary
- Back on Track
JFF works with our partners to reengage youth who are off track to graduation or out of school and put them on a path to postsecondary success... read more - Counseling to Careers
Provides community colleges and schools with the tools to better connect students with programs of study that align with regional employment needs... read more - Year to Career
Building a new, high-quality pathway that improves postsecondary outcomes for older youth, ages 18-26... read more
Building Economic Opportunity
- Accelerating Opportunity
Changing the way ABE is delivered in four states, and ensuring that their policies help students complete credentials of value in the labor market.... read more - Breaking Through
A multiyear demonstration project to promote and enhance the efforts of community colleges to help low-literacy adults succeed... read more - CareerSTAT
Documenting and endorsing the business case for investments in frontline hospital workers, and establishing an employer-led advocacy council... read more - Connecting Literacy and Work
Advancing low-skilled adults in their careers through tighter linkages between adult literacy and workforce initiatives... read more - Credentials that Work
Utilizing innovations in the collection and use of real-time labor market information to better align investments in education and training... read more - National Fund for Workforce Solutions
A $30 million effort to strengthen and expand community and regionwide workforce development programs... read more - Pathways Out of Poverty
Pathways Out of Poverty, a two-year, $8 million project, is ramping up pathways into green industries for unemployed and disadvantaged individuals... read more - Regional Growth and Opportunity Initiative
JFF, the Council on Competitiveness, and FutureWorks are collaborating to examine what’s working in regional growth efforts...... read more - The Greenforce Initiative™
JFF and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) have joined forces on a two-year project to spur "green job" innovation at community colleges... read more
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