Newswire is an electronic newsletter about Jobs for the Future and its efforts to: Create successful Transitions for Youth; and Build Economic Opportunity for Adults. Each issue features updates on JFF projects and events, as well as information on promising practices and downloadable resources for educators, policymakers, and practitioners.
Highlights for August 2007 include two new books from JFF:
Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It, a new book from JFF and Harvard Education Press, argues that in today’s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees.
Strategies for Financing Workforce Intermediaries: Working Papers, prepared for the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, examines the question of how workforce intermediaries might use existing or new funding sources to finance their core functions.
