down Go Back to Impact Stories Breaking Through At a Glance Helping community colleges accelerate Adult Basic Education and occupational training for adults with low academic skills, guiding them to complete credentials that local employers demand. Capabilities Design Scale Areas of Work Ensuring Equity in Advancement Topics Adults Students Employers Postsecondary Adult Basic Education Career Pathways Competency-Based Student Supports Developmental Education Rural Expert Involved Barbara Endel Senior Advisor Status Done Locations KY MI MN MT NC ND OK SD Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share via Email
Report/Research Breaking Through: Helping Low-Skilled Adults Enter and Succeed in College and Careers The Breaking Through initiative looks at whether—and how—community colleges can significantly improve outcomes for low-income, low-skilled adult learners seeking occupational and technical postsecondary credentials.
Report/Research Advancing Adults into Community College Programs: Data Tools from Breaking Through The goal of Breaking Through is to demonstrate that community colleges can restructure themselves to create clear pathways for low-skilled adults into professional/technical certificate and degree programs.
Report/Research Breaking Through: The Initiative After One Year This report summarizes activities and accomplishments from Breaking Through's first year as they relate to the goal of increasing the number of low-skilled adults who succeed in postsecondary certificate and degree programs.
Report/Research The Breaking Through Practice Guide The Breaking Through Practice Guide was developed to help practitioners serve adults who have low literacy and math levels and who want to succeed in postsecondary education.
Report/Research Leaving No Worker Behind: Community Colleges Retrain the Michigan Workforce and Themselves Five Michigan community colleges aimed to support dislocated workers and low-skilled adults by retraining them for jobs emerging in today's economy. The lessons these colleges learned could guide institutions nationwide as they attempt to serve these populations.
Report/Research Achieving Ambitious Goals: Case Studies of Scaling-Up Programs for Advancing Low-Skilled Adults Achieving Ambitious Goals highlights what five Breaking Through colleges are doing to advance adult learner's skills and career prospects, as well as scale up successful programs.
Report/Research Scaling Up Breaking Through: 2010 Evaluations Breaking Through has engaged over 40 colleges across the US in redesigning programs to help low-skilled adults acquire the skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education. These studies feature colleges that scaled up successful pilot programs.
Report/Research Forging New Pathways: The Impact of the Breaking Through Initiative in Michigan The Michigan Center for Student Success commissioned this study to determine whether strategies employed to improve adult students' success at 41 Breaking Through colleges nationwide have taken root at Michigan's original colleges and spread beyond them.
Report/Research Impact Profile of Doralee Ortez: Native-American Nurses "Break Through" Basic Ed Barrier Doralee's future was unclear after she dropped out of high school, but the nursing program at Northwest Indian College in Washington, a Breaking Through program, helped her turn things around.
Post Thinking Big about Student Success Thinking Big consolidates JFF's research into the most effective processes for scaling up new approaches that promote student success in community college.
Report/Research Building the Foundation for Success: Case Studies of Breaking Through Tribal Colleges and Universities This brief reviews case studies from the six colleges and universities involved in the Tribal Colleges Breaking Through partnership, which aimed to better serve low-skilled students at tribal colleges and universities.
Report/Research 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.
Report/Research 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.
Report/Research 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.
Tool State Youth Labor Law and Workers’ Compensation Statute Table This table is a comprehensive resource that describes the child labor laws and workers’ compensation statutes for each state. The information within this table is intended to help mitigate liability concerns related to youth employment.
Post 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.
