The Center for the Future of Arizona is helping to shape and define Arizona’s future through an action-oriented agenda focused on issues and topics critical to the state.
More than a think tank, the center is an independent “do tank” that combines public-policy research with collaborative partnerships and initiatives that will create opportunities and quality of life for all Arizonans.
The Arizona We Want Report
The Arizona We Want is the Center for the Future of Arizona's new report charting a "citizens' agenda" for Arizona's second century. This report is a summary of the research findings from the Gallup Arizona Poll, which explores citizens’ opinions and priorities regarding education, health care, job creation, energy and infrastructure.
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Pathways to Postsecondary
Too few Arizona students are graduating high school, and many who do are inadequately prepared for work or further study. To address this problem, the Center for the Future of Arizona and the Helios Education Foundation have launched Pathways to Postsecondary, an initiative to facilitate system-wide, transformational change of the state’s education system.
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Beat the Odds School Partners
Thirty-nine metro Phoenix-area schools were presented with Beat the Odds Awards for academic improvement Wednesday evening, October 28, at a ceremony hosted by the Phoenix-based Beat the Odds Institute.
The awards mark major milestones toward attaining the title of a Beat the Odds School—one in which individual student achievement is better than expected as a result of implementing research-based principles that are within every school’s control.
Pathways Research Report
The Center for the Future of Arizona has published an overview of the challenges faced by Arizona students in progressing through the education system as it is now structured. The original research, which was supported by Helios Education Foundation, makes the case for a pathways approach.
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