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>JOBS FOR THE FUTURE

>Creating Strategies for Educational and Economic Opportunity

>

>NEWSWIRE is an electronic newsletter for policymakers,

>practitioners, the media, and the public about JFF and its efforts to:

>    ~ Create successful transitions for youth; and

>    ~ Build economic opportunity for adults.

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>

>LINK TO NEWSWIRE #34, April 11, 2005

>http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=26653489&u=243015

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>TOPICS IN ISSUE #34, April 11, 2005

>

>1. Double the Numbers:

>~~ Add and Subtract: Dual Enrollment and Underrepresented Students

>~~ Remaking Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century

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>2. Improving Community College Outcomes

>~~ JFF & NCWE Collaborate on Building Pathways to College Credentials

>~~ MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award:

>      New Resource, Future Opportunities

>~~ Policy Briefs from Achieving the Dream

>

>3. Career and Technical Education in Pennsylvania:

>     Opportunities for Commonwealth Policy

>

>4. News of Early College High Schools

>~~ Designing and Financing an Integrated Program of College Study: CALS

>Lessons

>~~ The Early College Experiment: An Online Discussion

>~~ Bill Gates Urges Action on High School Reform

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>5. From Our Friends:

>~~ Redesigning High Schools and Promoting High School to College

>Transitions

>~~ Why Segregation Matters: Poverty & Educational Inequality

>~~ Improving High Schools

>~~ Improving Student Attainment in Community Colleges

>~~ Building a National Opportunity System for Adults

>~~ Low-Income Adult Students in Higher Ed

>~~ 2005 Workplace Education Resource Guide

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>a quality high school and postsecondary education and that all

>adults should have the skills needed to hold jobs that pay

>enough to support a family. As a non-profit research,

>consulting, and advocacy organization, JFF works to strengthen

>our society by creating educational and economic opportunity for

>those who need it most.

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