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by Kristen C. Wilcox & Jessie Tobin
Educators in rural schools, like in other school contexts (Kerner & Hall, 2009; Sorensen & Fleming, 2004), are increasingly expected to use relevant research to guide school and […]

By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox

As announced in recent blog posts, our NYKids team has just completed the second phase of the College and Career Readiness Study focusing on students’ perspectives on their high s […]

By Jessie Tobin, Lisa Yu, & Kristen C. Wilcox

In this blog, we highlight one of the six principles of Improvement Science; being problem-focused and user-centered. We connect it to NYKids improvement work and […]

By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox
The Latinx student population residing in the United States tripled between 1980 and the end of the 20th century; currently one in four students in U.S. schools identify as Latinx […]

By Jessie Tobin, Lisa Yu, and Kristen C. Wilcox

Kids, as major stakeholders in their own educational experiences, have a lot to lose when they don’t have opportunities to voice their own opinions, take actions a […]

By Lisa Yu and Kristen C. Wilcox

While English language learners (ELLs), like their native English-speaking peers, have been receiving remote instruction for several months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the […]

by Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox
Culturally Responsive Education in Rural Schools
The last several decades have seen a growing recognition of the value of culturally responsive education (CRE) alongside research […]

By April Prestipino

Tools on Principal Leadership Actions

In the 2012-2013 school year, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) deployed the Diagnostic Tool for School and District Effectiveness […]

By Lisa Yu, Kristen C. Wilcox, Aaron Leo

Agency has become a popular topic in the educational research literature as its enhancement has been viewed as a way to empower young people to act on their own and […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox

School leaders and teachers need innovations that help them produce improvements that address the disparities of learning opportunities too many young people experience in K-12 schools. […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox

As schools begin to reopen and after almost six months of varying degrees of closures in practically every segment of society across the United States, COVID melt has been a concern. While […]

by Aaron Leo

In the last several months, researchers have begun to uncover evidence showing how COVID-19 school closures are causing disproportionate effects on students across the country. In many cases, these […]

by Lisa Yu
As schools in New York state reopen in the fall whether using remote instruction or some hybrid model, ELL students will need to receive support again for their English language and content knowledge […]

by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox

Decades of school reform have focused on teachers’ instructional practices. Many of the recommended changes have highlighted research on ”evidence-based” best practices that […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox

In a prior NYKids blog, we described how Improvement science (IS) serves as a resource for school and district leaders and staff to organize their improvement efforts around high leverage […]

By Lisa Yu

By July 2020, NYKids researchers will have completed all data collection for the College and Career Readiness student study that began in the fall of 2019. Based on others’ research as well as the f […]

by Aaron Leo
As Independence Day approaches, we take the opportunity to reflect on the potential for education to fulfill the promise of democracy and equality laid out by the architects of the United States […]

by Lisa Yu

The COVID-19 induced school shutdown has left millions of teachers and students dependent on remote teaching and learning across the country. In response to the abrupt transition, the New York State […]

by Hal A. Lawson

Demography is not destiny, i.e., children’s circumstances at birth do not necessarily predict their outcomes as adults. This is America’s constitutional promise, and it applies to everyone, eve […]

by Aaron Leo

Students’ mental health was already being recognized as a growing concern in the United States before the COVID-19 pandemic which has wreaked social and economic havoc across the country and the w […]