Author Archives: Adana Collins

Nancy Hoffman to be Keynote Speaker at MCNC Summer Professional Development Institute

By Adana Collins | Published: April 24, 2012

MCNC is excited to announce that Nancy Hoffman, Vice President and Senior Advisor at Jobs for the Future, will be the keynote speaker at MCNC’s Summer Professional Development Institute to be held from June 29th- July 2nd at the Jersey City Hyatt in Jersey City, NJ. Jobs for the Future (JFF) is a national non-profit in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for young people and adults. Ms. Hoffman works with the Early College High School initiative, a network of over 270 schools in 28 states, blending high school and two years of college. She also works with states on aligning and integrating high school and college and developing new pathways to degree completion and careers.

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Bringing the Best of Early College to Scale – Jam Report

By Adana Collins | Published: March 15, 2012

The Jam conversation was structured to surface the participants’ views of what constitutes the best of Early College in both programmatic and policy terms, to link this to relevant proof points and to consider how scaling arguments would be mounted and programs actually realized at scale.

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Scaling the Best of Early College REQUIRES EVIDENCE

By Adana Collins | Published: February 21, 2012

“Are EC students college-ready? How well do EC students do in college? Do EC graduates complete college at higher rates?

These are some of the recurring questions that face those in the EC community.

Join in this unique conversation among EC practitioners and researchers. Help to identify the key elements of evidence and shape the research agenda.

Sponsors: Jobs for the Future and the Middle College National Consortium

Partners:
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
Educate Texas
Foundation of California Community Colleges Gateway to College
Knowledgeworks
NCREST
SECME
SERVE
Utah Partnership Foundation
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

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Awards for Greenville Technical Charter HS and Brashier Middle College

By Adana Collins | Published: November 30, 2011

The 2010 high school reports released by the South Carolina State Department of Education revealed that Greenville Tech Charter High was tops in the county and number 3 in the state on the graduation rate, at 99%. Brashier Middle College ranked second in the county and seventh in the state, graduating 94.4 percent of its [...]

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Fulfilling Promises: Vol. 17 No. 4 – Fall 2011

By Adana Collins | Published: November 30, 2011
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