The Role of Digital Technologies in Deeper Learning To compete in today’s global, knowledge-based, and innovation-centered economy, young people must go beyond a high school diploma and acquire not just academic knowledge, but interpersonal and…
Jobs for the Future: Impact Report 2014 This report highlights our accomplishments over the past year and our impact on the nation’s most pressing social and economic challenges. It also charts our progress in achieving…
Equity in Competency Education: Realizing the Potential, Overcoming the Obstacles Equity is both a central goal and fundamental value of competency education. Competency-based approaches are designed to promote equity by preventing students from falling behind…
A New Era for Educational Assessment Among education researchers, there is a growing consensus that college and career readiness depends on not just academic knowledge and skills but on a wide range of social and…
The Past and the Promise: Today's Competency Education Movement Competency education is attracting significant interest as a promising way to help meet our national priority of ensuring that all young people are ready for college…
How to Help Struggling High School Students Reach Common Core Standards: New York City's Comprehensive Approach This report documents the pilot phase of a professional development initiative in New York City, designed to build school…
DesignForScale: State Innovation Series The DesignForScale: State Innovation Series highlights innovative efforts to scale structured pathways reforms across all the community colleges in a state. The DesignForScale: State Innovation Series highlights innovative efforts to scale…
Impact Profile of Lacey Bowman: Accelerating to College and Career Success This is Lacey Bowman’s success story of earning her GED and pursuing a career in welding with the help of the Accelerate TEXAS program.…
Driving the Direction of Transfer Pathways Reform The vast majority of community college students do not continue their studies at four-year colleges. JFF convened higher education leaders and researchers to explore state-level policy strategies that…