The Parkway Center City Middle College, Philadelphia’s first early/middle college, is overcoming challenges and showing positive early outcomes for students. The Parkway Center City Middle College, Philadelphia’s first early/middle college, is overcoming challenges and showing…
Early College Expansion Partnership External Evaluation This research highlights the results from an effort to scale up early college designs to reach more than 30,000 students in three school districts in Colorado and Texas. Three…
This tool kit is for districts and/or schools that want to launch and continually improve early college and career pathway programs. It includes templates and examples of project planning documents and implementation resources. This tool…
Thousands of low-income students have earned associate’s degrees—for free—by the time they finished high school, thanks to early college designs JFF has spread nationally. Now JFF proposes a bold way to scale this proven model—a…
Learn about the skills, knowledge, and experiences high school graduates in Illinois can use to show they are ready to enter a high-demand industry or pursue higher education. This report outlines technical and professional competencies…
A shortage of qualified instructors threatens to derail dual enrollment. Creating a long-term pipeline of faculty who can teach college in high school requires systemic solutions that align complex interests. A shortage of qualified instructors…
This piece looks at the Great Lakes region to explore key themes related to effective dual enrollment at scale: teacher credentialing, course quality, and how to fund growing demand. This piece looks at the Great…
JFF contributes a chapter in the upcoming book, *13 Ideas that Are Transforming the Community College World*, edited by Terry O'Banion. In the chapter, titled “Eliminating the Gap Between High School and College: What the…
Integrating Earning College Credit in High Schools into Accountability Systems Students who earn college credits by taking a college-level course while in high school are more likely to enter college and succeed. This paper encourages…