Most Recent Publications

It’s Not About the Cut Score: Redesigning Placement Assessment Policy to Improve Student Success (July 2008)
Placement assessment policy, which governs how colleges assess the academic skills of entering students and place them in courses that are appropriate for their... read more
Ensuring College Success: Scaffolding Experiences for Students and Faculty in an Early College School (July 2008)
The Science, Technology and Research Early College School, working closely with Brooklyn College—a partnership that has been supported by the Woodrow Wils... read more
Test Drive: Six States Pilot Better Ways to Measure and Compare Community College Performance (July 2008)
Increasing demand for at least some postsecondary education in today’s labor market has met with stagnating college completion rates. As a result, states ... read more
Leveraging Postsecondary Partners to Build a College-Going Culture: Tools for High School/Postsecondary Partnerships (July 2008)
A number of schools and school districts seek to revitalize their partnerships with postsecondary institutions as a way to create pathways to postsecondary edu... read more
Pushing the Envelope: State Policy Innovations in Financing Higher Education for Workers Who Study (June 2008)
Postsecondary education, accompanied by a credential documenting mastered skills, is an important ticket out of poverty for a significant portion of the working... read more
On Ramp to College: A State Policymaker’s Guide to Dual Enrollment (May 2008)
On Ramp to College reviews trends in a growing number of states that see dual enrollment as a way to expand college opportunity—particularly for stud... read more
Advancing Adults into Community College Programs: Data Tools from Breaking Through (April 2008)
The goal of Breaking Through, a collaboration of JFF and the National Council for Workforce Education, is to demonstrate that community colleges can restru... read more
Flexible Learning Options for Adult Students (April 2008)
This report prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor takes a close look at emerging trends that offer adult learners more flexible access to postsecondary cour... read more
Overcoming Obstacles, Optimizing Opportunities: State Policies to Increase Postsecondary Attainment for Low-Skilled Adults (March 2008)
Breaking Through, a multi-year initiative of JFF and the National Council for Workforce Education, seeks to help low-literacy adults prepare for and succeed in ... read more
Raising Graduation Rates in an Era of High Standards: Five Commitments for State Action (February 2008)
A growing number of state leaders have begun to grapple with one of the most difficult and important challenges of K-12 reform: how to substantially increase th... read more