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“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.