Most Recent Publications

Speech: From Best Practices to Large Scale Change (March 2002)
Community colleges have many missions: academic education and transfer to four-year colleges, remediation, occupational education, workforce and economic develo... read more
Learning Outside the Lines: Six Innovative Programs That Reach Youth (March 2002)
Whether inside or out of school, voluntary or for credit, the programs profiled garner both deep engagement and high achievement from young people, helping them... read more
Rigor and Relevance: Can Policy Keep Pace With Changing Practice in Our High Schools? (March 2002)
This Education Week commentary proposes policy innovations that would help communities protect progress they have made while unleashing the creativity... read more
Beyond Welfare-to-Work: Helping Low-Wage Workers Maintain Their Jobs and Advance in the Workforce (2002)
The U.S. Department of Labor asked JFF to develop two discussion papers to assist program development and practice in cities that were funded by the department'... read more
Speech: Better and Faster: Accelerating Advancement in School and Work (2002)
In 2001, JFF CEO and cofounder Hilary Pennington was a featured speaker at the Aspen Institute Congressional Seminar on "The New Challenge for Public Educa... read more
Family Economic Success: A Framework for Making Connections (January 2002)
JFF is assisting the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections Initiative, the centerpiece of the foundation's multi-faceted effort to improve the life cha... read more
Theory of Change for Workforce Innovation Networks (WINs) (January 2002)
The Theory of Change is a strategic planning tool developed to help identify the change strategy and process and outcome indicators for the WINs initiative... read more
Transforming the American High School: New Directions for State and Local Policy (December 2001)
At a time when high schools must be pathways to college for all students, they are pathways to nowhere for many. Transforming the American High School iden... read more
Identity Crisis: Not-for-Profit in a Profit World (November 2001)
In 2001, "Working Visions: The International Employment Futures Conference and Knowledge Expo" provided an international forum to grapple with questio... read more
Speech: Jobs For All: Can It Be a Reality? (November 2001)
In 2001, in Perth, Australia, "Working Visions: The International Employment Futures Conference and Knowledge Expo" provided an international forum to... read more