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Performance by Brad Paisley, posted on YouTube. Another look at ideas about the future.

Research & Reports page. Available resources include: research reports, tools, newsletters and policy briefs related to education reform and workforce development at local, state and federal levels.

In pre-Jam materials, participants recommended these specific publications: Nodine, T. (2009). Innovations in college readiness: How early colleges are preparing students underrepresented in higher education for college success. Washington, D.C. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Education & Jobs for the Future and Hoffman, N., & Vargas, J. (2010). A policymaker's guide to early college designs: Expanding a strategy for achieving college readiness for all.

" Education for the Future is a not-for-profit initiative located on the California State University, Chico campus that focuses on working with schools, districts, State Departments of Education and other educational service centers and agencies on systemic change and comprehensive data analyses that lead to increased student learning. "

Website of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. The site supports the work of the foundation, providing resources for and about schools. The "Foundation is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating for innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives."

This online toolkit, published by Jobs for the Future, demonstrates how Hidalgo Texas built a successful early college program "where very student earns college credit before graduating from high school."

Built by Jobs for the Future (JFF), this toolkit helps Early Colleges organize, analyze and understand their data.

Marrying the four Cs (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity) to the three Rs to lead to 21st Century schools, teachers, students, and graduates.