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 first phase of …
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 Constitution. This blog explores the …
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 Education Department has provided new guidance …
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, everywhere in the U.S. Our education systems are the …
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 world. Now experts are just beginning …
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 together” -Lila Watson (Indigenous Australian visual artist, activist and academic working in the …
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 Essex, NY sees the role of mentoring in helping …
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 1 in every 4 community college students “from …
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 nation have provided commonalities and similarities Nevertheless, PE …
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 and Career Readiness …