Access to Community College for Undocumented Immigrants: A Guide for State Policymakers How are states and community college systems working to improve undocumented students’ access to postsecondary education? This brief highlights what five states with…
Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life *Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life* offers a provocative look at how high schools can help students become truly prepared for college, career,…
An Introduction to the Deeper Learning Series This publication presents the executive summaries of 11 papers in the Students at the Center Deeper Learning Research Series. Each report offers a provocative but even-handed perspective on…
Early College Expansion: Propelling Students to Postsecondary Success, At a School Near You Early college schools are succeeding at our nation’s most daunting educational challenge—propelling students from underserved backgrounds to graduate high school and earn…
Tying Funding to Community College Outcomes: Models, Tools, and Recommendations for States Driven by economic and educational imperatives, public policymakers, higher education leaders, and philanthropic and advocacy groups are mobilizing aggressive national and state campaigns…
Better Care, Better Careers: The Jobs to Careers Strategy for Growing a Skilled Health Care Workforce This report brings together the experience and lessons of this six-year, $15.8 million initiative Jobs to Careers , sponsored…
Framing the Opportunity: Eight State Policy Recommendations that Support Postsecondary Credential Completion for Underserved Populations To reestablish the US’s place among nations with high postsecondary completion rates—a distinction it’s lost in recent years—states are actively…
Policy Meets Pathways: A State Policy Agenda for Transformational Change A national report by JFF states that a decade of interventions and improvements have fallen short. States and campuses have not taken large enough steps…
Thinking Big: A Framework for States on Scaling Up Community College Innovation In the education and workforce fields, it is often difficult to properly scale up “boutique” programs that aim at improving student outcomes. *Thinking…