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How Adult Learners Can Accelerate a Path to Economic Advancement
When Heidi Cruz enrolled in a dental assisting program at an Illinois community college, she hadn't finished high school. With support from Accelerating Opportunity, she is now ready to thrive in a rapidly changing labor market.
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Paying for Integrated Pathways: SNAP Education and Training Funds in Washington
The state of Washington has created a funding solution to support integrated career pathways. Its work inspires JFF's Accelerating Opportunity initiative, which leads more underserved learners to a credential of value.
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Paying for Integrated Pathways: Illinois’ Performance-Based Funding System
In work that ties into our Accelerating Opportunity initiative, Illinois has implemented a performance-based funding system to aid student progression.
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Paying for Integrated Pathways: Kansas' Tiered Funding Model for Student Support
In 2014, Kansas signed into law the GED Accelerator and AO-K Proviso, two pieces of legislation designed to support students. This work mirrors much of what the Opportunity Youth initiative aims to accomplish.
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“You Can Go After That Dream”: Adult Students Inspire Professionals at JFF Pathways Conference
It's never too late to pursue your education. Hear from three students who achieved their dreams of earning a credential and finding a good job at very different times in their lives.
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The First Year of Accelerating Opportunity: Implementation Findings from the States and Colleges
Beginning in 2012, the Accelerating Opportunity initiative provided $1.6 million in grants to five states to help community colleges create career pathway programs for students with low basic skills.
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A Resource Guide to Engaging Employers
This resource guide presents working models of successful employer engagement and lessons for securing and sustaining partnerships with employers, in addition to helping education and training providers fully realize the value of such partnerships.
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Leveraging TANF for Career Training
With the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Congress took a step toward improving the connections between workforce and federal assistance programs. With this piece of legislature, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is a mandatory partner in state and local workforce systems.
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Lessons Learned from Accelerating Opportunity
What are the most important aspects of combining Adult Basic Education and career and technical training? After four years of building the Accelerating Opportunity initiative, JFF has the knowledge to help partners replicate and scale this successful approach.
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The Second Year of Accelerating Opportunity: Implementation Findings from the States and Colleges
The second annual implementation report for the Accelerating Opportunity initiative in four states finds that colleges aligned pathways and supports with local needs, much to student and employer satisfaction.
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Accelerating Opportunity: A Portrait of Students and Their Program Experiences from the 2014 Student Survey
This report, performed in partnership with the Urban Institute, presents findings from a survey of students enrolled in Accelerating Opportunity career pathways in spring 2014. This survey was conducted to better understand students' experiences and get students' perspective on the AO initiative.
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“These People Just Keep Trying to Help Me”—Supporting Students to Succeed in College and Career Pathways
Community college students today face multiple barriers to achieving their postsecondary goals. In order to help more people juggle the facts of daily life that make it difficult to stay in school and complete credentials, colleges must offer comprehensive, wraparound supports.
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Accelerating Opportunity Students Speak About Their Pathways to New Careers
In honor of National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week , JFF shared two profiles of Accelerating Opportunity students, whose experiences and accomplishments demonstrate the difference an education can make.
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Implementation of Accelerating Opportunity: Lessons for the Field
This report details the first three years of the Accelerating Opportunity initiative, diving into what worked and what lessons were learned along the way.
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Scaling Innovation in Community Colleges: A Guide to Action
As community colleges look for ways to promote student success, the need for scaling effective approaches is critical. This guide builds on a framework developed in a previous JFF publication with four phases of scaling: planning, initiating, expanding, and sustaining.
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Transformational Teaching: A Team Approach
It truly takes a village to help the nation’s 36 million adults with low basic skills access economic opportunities. JFF's Accelerating Opportunity initiative has found extreme value in the team-teaching approach.
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Transformational Teaching: A Team Approach to Adult Education
As the old adage says, there is strength in numbers. With the team-teaching approach, Accelerating Opportunity increases the supports for adults seeking to earn postsecondary credentials.
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New Evidence on Integrated Career Pathways: Final Impact Report for Accelerating Opportunity
This final impact report describes the effect of Accelerating Opportunity (AO) on education and employment outcomes for underprepared adult learners.
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Accelerating Opportunity Field Guide
The Accelerating Opportunity Field Guide provides the necessary processes and strategies to help educators redesign Adult Basic Education and career and technical education. Join the national movement today!
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Promoting Persistence Through Comprehensive Supports
This publication provides support and clarity to Accelerating Opportunity–involved colleges and other institutions that are looking for strategies to improve their ability to provide comprehensive supports to adult learners.
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Accelerating Opportunity Braided Funding Toolkit
Braided funding, the weaving together of various state, federal, and private funding streams, along with funding strategies, is critical to the Accelerating Opportunity initiative and creating integrated career pathways.
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Thinking Big: A Framework for States on Scaling Up Community College Innovation
In the education and workforce fields, it is often difficult to properly scale up "boutique" programs that aim at improving student outcomes. Thinking Big brings the process (and common issues) of scaling up programs to light.