Most Recent Publications

College Success for All: How the Hidalgo Independent School District Is Adopting Early College as a District-wide Strategy (October 2010)
The Hidalgo Independent School District in Texas has raised the bar on what it means for a school system to focus on college readiness. College Success for All ... read more
A Policymaker’s Guide to Early College Designs: Expanding a Strategy for Achieving College Readiness for All (October 2010)
The best way to prepare young people to succeed in college is to provide them with substantial college experiences while still in high school. Dual enrollment, ... read more
Taking the Next Step: The Promise of Intermediate Measures for Meeting Postsecondary Completion Goals (September 2010)
As educators, government officials, and foundations leaders have embraced the agenda of dramatically increasing college success and credential completion, they ... read more
Jobs to Careers in Community-Based Care (September 2010)
A project in Oregon to improve the work of elder caregivers in community-based settings is a timely response to the convergence of several pressing factors: an ... read more
Bridging the Gap in Developmental Education (Fall 2010)
Writing in the Journal of Developmental Education, JFF’s Michael L. Collins addresses diverse perspectives on research in developmental education. In &q... read more
Back on Track to College: A Texas School District Leverages State Policy to Put Dropouts on the Path to Success (September 2010)
In the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District has achieved a startling success over the last two years: it has r... read more
Six Pillars of Effective Dropout Prevention and Recovery: An Assessment of Current State Policy and How to Improve It (September 2010)
Solving America’s dropout crisis requires immediate, drastic action. Intractable as the dropout problem may seem, recognition of its magnitude has created... read more
Reinventing Alternative Education: An Assessment of Current State Policy and How to Improve It (September 2010)
Of the 1.2 million students who drop out each year, and the others who continue to attend school but make little progress toward graduation, many will require c... read more
The Key to Prosperity: The Skills of the American Worker (September 2010)
Labor Day celebrates the American worker upon whom our nation builds its prosperity. In boom times, the American workforce and the economy it fueled were the en... read more
The Rallying Call: Bringing Game-Changing Results to Developmental Education (August 2010)
"As educators, we have to make the commitment to a very simple proposition: if we admit students to college, we should do everything possible to make ... read more