by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox A recent report released by the National Bureau of Economic Research makes an alarming claim: the socioeconomic achievement gap hasn’t budged in fifty years. The authors base their findings on five decades of …
A report released earlier this year by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), California’s Positive Outliers: Districts Beating the Odds, examined school districts in California to identify those that were “positive outliers”. These are schools that demonstrate the ability to support …
The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) and the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC) recently released a report. The report “Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times” offers insights for family and community engagement. NEPC and FLDC …
A nagging question for many school and district leaders as well as others in charge of tracking student performance is “How do our kids perform compared to those in other schools?” Collecting and interpreting data to answer that question can …
Wonder how your school compares to schools that achieve better than average graduation rates for ethnically, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse youth? NYKids’ new self-assessment tool provides a sample of questions to help you identify areas for improvement and directs you …
While summer provides educators with opportunities for some well-deserved relaxation, it also offers opportunities to reflect and prepare for a new school year. On July 17th and 18th, educators from several school districts in the Capital Region did just that …
Summer vacation provides school leaders with a time to retool and reboot. The MiddleWeb offers Four Summer Strategies for School Leaders to make this a productive time. Though written specifically for middle school principals, the four strategies are useful for …
One out of every four schools in the U.S. is considered rural, and these schools serve nearly nine million students according to a report from the Rural School and Community Trust. Rural students have both higher overall graduation rates than …
“We tend to work with a culture of ‘We’re going to give you [students] respect and we’re going to expect it back, and we are going to have conversations with you [students] when we see that that’s not happening’, but …
NYKids hosted a small gathering of some of our advisory committee members to discuss new directions for NYKids in the upcoming academic year. Among the many planned activities, NYKids is gearing up to go back into the field to conduct …