News Releases

Inaugural National STEM Conference Gets Support from JFF (May 2, 2012)
America needs a workforce skilled in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and a notable group of companies and organizations is uniting to ensure that the nation gets the message. This summer, thousands of education, policy and industry...read more
U.S. Department of Labor launches Virtual Career Network to highlight job opportunities and training in health care fields (April 16, 2012)
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a new online tool that will allow current and prospective health care workers to explore more than 80 different occupations, identify local education and training programs, and tap into current job listings.read more
Giving Students a Voice Is Critical to Education Reform and Student Success (April 11, 2012)
The more educators give students choice, control, challenge, and opportunities to collaborate, the more motivated and engaged those students will be and the more they will learn, according to a new researchread more
New Research Shows Promise of Technologies To Help Teachers Reach Individual Students, But Can’t Replace Emotional Work of Classrooms (March 28, 2012)
The two other papers released today–Literacy Practices for African-American Male Adolescents and Latino/a and Black Students and Mathematics–also find that student-centered approaches to learning have great potential to improve the literacy...read more
One Texas School District's Vision for all Students: “College: Ready, Connected, Complete” (March 26, 2012)
A school district near the Texas-Mexico border is making college a reality for every young person, from top students to former dropouts. Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District, with 32,000 studentsread more
Early College High School Initiative Celebrates Ten Years of Success (March 22, 2012)
More than 75,000 high school students nationwide can earn free college credit at early college high schools. These schools and their partners will hold events publicizing their impressive results as part of the fourth annual Early College High...read more
Students at the Center Project Refocuses Reform Debate on Meeting Individual Needs to Meet Higher Standards (March 14, 2012)
JFF announces the first 3 papers in the series of 9 for the Students at the Center project. This launch refocuses reform debate on meeting individual needs to meet higher standards.read more
How Do Students Learn Best? (February 15, 2012)
Despite the growing interest in student-centered approaches to learning, educators have few places to turn to attain a comprehensive accounting of the key components of this emerging field. Supported by funds from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation...read more