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Monday March 18, 2013
Design Matters: Lessons from Accelerating Opportunity
by Rachel Pleasants McDonnellAccelerating Opportunity, Jobs for the Future’s multistate initiative to redesign Adult Basic Education (ABE), is entering its second year of implementation. Drawing on the findings of the Accelerating Opportunity evaluators (the Urban Institute) and our own experiences as the managing partner, we can reflect back on the design phase, from...
Topics: Education and Workforce Policy
Wednesday September 12, 2012
Adult Literacy: Making the Connection
by Rachel Pleasants McDonnellThis week is National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. JFF applauds its organizer, the National Coalition for Literacy, for drawing the connection between adult literacy and economic stability. We too are committed to helping adults gain the education they need to achieve financial independence and support their families and are staunch...
Thursday March 22, 2012
Ensuring that Good Programs Make a Strong Impact (Part 3 of 3)
by Rachel Pleasants McDonnell(Part 3 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
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