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| Expanding Educational Opportunity: MetLife Foundation Awards to Honor Innovative Community Colleges (November 14, 2002) |
MetLife Foundation and Jobs for the Future are collaborating
on an awards program to recognize community colleges that
promote educational and career advancement for traditionally
underserved youth and adults. In April 2003, community colleges
will be invited to apply for the second MetLife Foundation
Community College Excellence Awards, and the winners
will be announced in spring 2004. The first MetLife Foundation
Community College Excellence Awards were made in 2002.
Jobs for the Future, a national organization that specializes
in building career pathways that link work and learning,
administers the program on behalf of MetLife Foundation.
"Community colleges open the doors to education to millions
of Americans," said Sibyl Jacobson, president and CEO of
MetLife Foundation. "We are pleased to make possible these
awards that recognize outstanding community colleges for
providing the tools and pathways that overcome barriers
and set students on the road to economic and educational
empowerment." |
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| Guideposts for Smaller High Schools: Lessons From Inside and Outside the School Walls (November 4, 2002) |
In communities across the United States, the conversion
of large high schools into small, focused learning environments
is gaining currency as an education reform strategy. This
opens up a crucial moment of opportunity for making progress
on the seemingly intractable problems of high school design,
practice, and policy.
From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School offers concrete guideposts for leaders of comprehensive
high schools who seek to implement a small schools/small
learning communities strategy. In this report, Lili Allen
and Adria Steinberg of Jobs for the Future draw upon preliminary
lessons emerging in schools and districts that have begun
exploring the structural, organizational, and political
challenges involved in converting a large high school into
smaller, more focused and personalized learning communities. |
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| New Report Reveals: 41% of New England Adults Lack Skills Needed to Succeed in Today's Economy (June 10, 2002) |
West Hills Community College of California's San Joaquin
Valley and Sinclair Community College of Dayton, Ohio, are
the recipients of The MetLife Foundation Community College
Excellence Awards. The winners were announced in Seattle
on April 21 at the 2002 annual convention of the American
Association of Community Colleges.
MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Awards
honor these colleges for excellence in promoting educational
and economic advancement for underserved youth and adults.
Each institution receives $30,000 in recognition of its
leadership in demonstrating a college-wide focus on achieving
high levels of service for the underserved. |
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| "Excellence Awards" Honor Two Innovative Community Colleges (April 21, 2002) (April 21, 2002) |
West Hills Community College of California's San Joaquin
Valley and Sinclair Community College of Dayton, Ohio, are
the recipients of The MetLife Foundation Community College
Excellence Awards. The winners were announced in Seattle
on April 21 at the 2002 annual convention of the American
Association of Community Colleges.
MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Awards
honor these colleges for excellence in promoting educational
and economic advancement for underserved youth and adults.
Each institution receives $30,000 in recognition of its
leadership in demonstrating a college-wide focus on achieving
high levels of service for the underserved. |
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| Boston Group To Lead $40 Million National Education Initiative (March 19, 2002) |
Jobs for the Future today announced it
will lead an initiative to dramatically increase high school graduation
and college attendance rates for the most disadvantaged youth. The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with Carnegie
Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and W. K. Kellogg Foundation,
has committed more than $40 million to create 70 "Early Colleges."
When students finish these small high schools, they will have a two-year
Associate of Arts degree or enough college credits to enter a four-year,
liberal arts program as a sophomore or junior.
Jobs for the Future will receive $5.7 million over the next five
years to serve as the lead coordinator and policy advocate for the
Early College Initiative. Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit organization
that seeks to accelerate the educational and economic advancement
of youth and adults struggling in today's economy, also announced
the appointment of Nancy Hoffman, Senior Lecturer at Brown University,
to direct the initiative. |
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