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Adria Steinberg
Jobs for the Future
Ms. Steinberg leads JFF¹s work with the City of Boston's High School Renewal initiative and with a collaboration of three foundations to address the nation¹s dropout crisis.
In Boston, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $13.6 million to the city for the creation and development of small, effective high schools.
At the end of four years, as a result of that investment and Boston¹s existing innovative small schools, over 30 percent of high school students will attend small, purpose-designed high schools. JFF serves as fiscal agent for the grant and provides design and technical assistance to the new small schools to ensure that graduates make smooth transitions to further education and training.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation have invested a total of $2 million to combat the silent crisis of too many students dropping out of high school.
They have made grants to enable Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland (OR), and San Jose to strengthen their strategies for reducing the numbers of young people who drop out and reconnecting those who have left school. JFF staffs this initiative and provides strategic consultation to the city partnerships.
Ms. Steinberg has authored many publications, including a five-year stint as primary writer/editor of The Harvard Education Letter. She was also the academic coordinator of the Rindge School of Technical Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she co-directed the federally funded Vocational Integration with Academics project.
She graduated with honors from Swarthmore College and received her M.Ed.
from Boston University.
