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by Kristen C. Wilcox, Rebecca Shea, and Catherine Kramer

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work togeth […]

by Kristen Wilcox, Aaron Leo, and Jon Reidel

In a recent interview, Kristen C. Wilcox, NYKids Research and Development Director, explored how Jon Reidel, Communications Director, at CFES Brilliant Pathways in […]

by Aaron Leo
Over half of all immigrant students attend community college at one point in their postsecondary careers. So heavily concentrated are immigrant students in community colleges that one estimate places […]

by Hal A. Lawson

School Physical Education (PE) programs became fixtures in America’s school systems in the first half of the 20th Century.  Since then state education department policy standards across the na […]

By Aaron Leo, Kristen C. Wilcox, and Lisa Cala Ruud
How do high school principals use data to make decisions? Dr. Lisa Cala Ruud explored this question in her recent dissertation study based on the NYKids College […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox & Aaron Leo

Educators are responding to the numerous challenges they face in moving to a completely online format due to COVID-19-prompted school closures. In this blog we check in […]

By Hal A. Lawson

As the 20th Century closed, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and its Council on Adolescent Development published a clarion call to action, A Matter of Time: Risk and Opportunity in the […]

By Aaron Leo

Millions of public-school students across the country are now being educated remotely due to the social distancing measures brought on by the spread of COVID-19. The challenge of holding lessons […]

By Lisa Yu

In response to school closures due to COVID-19, educators around the world are looking for guidance in how to use technology in ways that keep students on track for high school graduation and […]

by Kristen C. Wilcox

The NYKids College and Career Readiness study identified “positive outlier” schools that consistently produced better-than-predicted graduation outcomes for diverse student sub […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox

While educators (including family members and other caretakers) look for ways to sustain learning opportunities during the COVID-19 school closures, Alfred-Almond Junior-Senior High School […]

By Hal A. Lawson and Aaron Leo

The late John Goodlad, internationally acclaimed educational renewal leader, once sparked controversy among members of the Leadership Academy for The National Network for […]

By Stephanie Affinito, Ph.D., Clinical Teaching Faculty, Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning, University at Albany; saffinito@albany.edu
Supporting Literacy Instruction Remotely

Educators everywhere […]

By Lisa Yu

Through this third installment in the NYKids 20-20 blog series, we look back at 15 years of NYKids’ research in schools across New York State to revisit past findings from odds-beating schools and e […]

By Hal A. Lawson, PhD
A Place Called School
Educators everywhere have heard and perhaps used a familiar slogan, “All children will come to school ready and able to learn”.  It announces a mix of belief, hope, expe […]

By Amanda Lester

Through this second installment in the NYKids 20-20 blog series, we look back at 15 years of NYKids’ research in schools across New York State to revisit past findings from the odds-beating s […]

By Fang (Lisa) Yu

Increasing diversity in suburban communities challenges the prevailing myth that students educated in suburban schools come from White and middle-class families. Instead, recent studies have […]

By Aaron Leo

As the student population in New York State and across the country continues to become more socioeconomically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse, the challenge of engaging each […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox and Jim Wager

Since the early 2000’s New York State has seen changes evident across the nation, and these changes have affected schools and the children and adults who step in their doors e […]

by Amanda J. Lester

The unique characteristics of rural school districts and their surrounding communities present both challenges and opportunities for rural school educators. Some of the challenges faced by […]