Recent
Tuesday March 13, 2012
Ensuring that Good Programs Make a Strong Impact
by Rachel Pleasants McDonnell(Part 1 of a three-part blog entry)
Getting to scale is a major goal of most initiatives both at JFF and across the country, but most of us still struggle with figuring out how to scale up what works and create real, sustainable, high-impact change. At the Achieving the Dream State Policy Meeting in Seattle, Washington on February 1st, Barbara...
Topics: Education and Workforce Policy
Monday March 12, 2012
Better Student Placement
by Cecilia LeYou may have seen the news last week that huge numbers of community college students are being required to take remedial courses they don’t need. Two studies from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College found that more than a quarter of students who place into developmental education based on their Compass...
Topics: Developmental Education
Thursday March 8, 2012
Mass. Voting to Increase Compulsory Attendance to Age 18
by Clare BertrandThe Massachusetts legislature’s Education Committee has scheduled a vote for today on a bill that will raise the compulsory school attendance age to 18. President Obama proposed that all states enact this policy in his State of the Union address earlier this year, citing evidence that raising the age can lead to higher earnings and better lifetime...