Career and College Exploration Experiences: Planning for Success
This guide offers detailed information and resources to help you provide middle and high school students with opportunities to explore their options for the future through Career and College Exploration Experiences. This guide offers detailed…
A Career-Oriented Summer: Planning Your Summer Bridge Program
This guide offers valuable resources to help you develop a comprehensive summer bridge program that supports students as they transition into high school. This guide offers valuable resources to help you develop a comprehensive summer…
Message to the New Congress: Make Bold Bets on America’s Workers and Learners
By Lexi Barrett As members of the 116th Congress are sworn in this week, they are grappling with many challenges, especially involving those Americans who are unemployed or underemployed. Despite strong economic indicators in recent years, too…
State Policy Road Map for a Smarter Postsecondary System
Our recommendations are framed in three strategies: Policy Agenda We created a comprehensive reforms agenda framed around three strategies for making postsecondary education work for students and the economy. Our goal is to guide policymakers…
We Need to Repair the Leaking Education Pipeline
By David Altstadt A growing number of high school students takedual-credit courses to get a head start on college. Meanwhile, the goal of the vastmajority of community college students is to transfer to a university…
Alleviating Poverty for Opportunity Youth
Alleviating Poverty for Opportunity Youth In preparation for a new Congress and updates to federal poverty alleviation initiatives, JFF developed *Alleviating Poverty for Opportunity Youth*, a brief highlighting how policymakers must ensure that young people…
Changing Systems, Transforming Communities: A JFF Network Convening of Leaders
An inaugural Institute of changemakers engaging in cross-sector partnerships to transform California’s institutions and improve economic outcomes for their regions’ most vulnuerable populations.
States Must Step Up When Traditional Financial Aid Is Not Enough
The financial worries of today’s community college students reach far beyond tuition. To increase individual success, state policymakers and college leaders must broaden the financial help they offer.
Spring 2019 Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute
The biannual Institute of the Pathways to Prosperity Network.