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Carnegie Corporation of New York
Public Affairs 212-207-6273
“Next Stop College” Campaign Transports Bostonians
Commuters riding Boston’s subways and buses are learning about
the City’s efforts to prepare students for college and career
success, thanks to a new public awareness campaign launched in February
2008. The “Next Stop, College” campaign, funded in part
by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York in support of the
Boston Public Schools’ high school renewal work, features
recent graduates and current high school students describing how
their high schools have helped prepare them to achieve their college
and career goals. View advertisements and read more about “Next
Stop College.”
Over the next several months, the awareness campaign will be expanded
to include print advertising, bus shelters and movie theater preview
screens.
During the past decade, Boston has undertaken an ambitious agenda
to transform all of the City’s public high schools into rigorous
programs that provide personalized, challenging opportunities for
all students. The portfolio of schools now includes comprehensive
high schools organized into small learning communities, small high
schools, pilot schools, exam schools, a technical-vocational school
as well as alternative programs.
Carnegie Corporation supports efforts aimed at providing many more
students, including immigrants and historically underserved populations,
with the core competencies to succeed in post-secondary education.
Demonstration projects and research, like those funded in Boston,
prepare high school graduates for upwardly mobile employment. Read
more about Carnegie Corporation’s efforts to improve
educational and economic opportunity.
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