Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth

This report was designed to highlight the underlying challenges facing Opportunity Youth (i.e., youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor participating in the labor market) and offers a framework to help communities come together to address these challenges

A Market for Success: How a Robust Service Provider Market Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Completion

Outlines how external service providers can help community colleges enhance institutional redesign, use of data, student services and supports, and faculty development in order to remove barriers to completion, increase efficiency, and improve outcomes

Keeping the Promise of Opportunity: Redesigning Financial Aid to Support Post-Secondary Completion Among Low-Income Young Adults

This report explores the challenges low-income young adults face in accessing and using financial aid and the related trends contributing to inequality in post-secondary education today, as well as potential approaches funders can undertake to redesign financial aid to help students overcome these barriers

The New Role of Business in Global Education: How Companies Can Create Shared Value by Improving Education While Driving Shareholder Returns

This paper articulates the case for a renewed role for business in global education through the lens of shared value. It is intended to help business leaders and their partners seize opportunities to create economic value while addressing unmet needs in education at scale. The concepts we describe apply across industries and to developed and emerging economies alike, although their implementation will naturally differ based on contex

School Turnaround Field Guide

Outlines approaches to turning around low-performing schools, lessons from early efforts, gaps to be filled, and critical actions to implement effective practices, create supportive policies and conditions, and build capacity and sustainability at scale

The new role of business in global Education / El nuevo rol de los negocios en la educación global

Este documento articula el caso de un rol renovado para los negocios en la educación global a través de la lente del valor compartido. Su objetivo es ayudar a los líderes empresariales y sus socios a aprovechar las oportunidades para crear valor económico al tiempo que abordan las necesidades no satisfechas en la educación a escala. Los conceptos que describimos se aplican a todas las industrias y a las economías desarrolladas y emergentes por igual, aunque su implementación naturalmente diferirá según el contexto