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 …
In the 2018-19 school year, NYKids worked with Arongen and Montgomery C. Smith Elementary Schools on identifying and addressing improvement goals. COMPASS Institutes harness NYKids research on odds-beating schools in service of supporting improvement in other schools. This week NYKids …
A recent report by the Latino Educational Advocacy Directors (LEAD) Coalition calls attention to the distressing graduation rates of New York State’s English language learners (ELLs)[1]: in 2017, the four-year dropout rate for ELLs across the state was 30% while …
By Hal A. Lawson The 20th Century management guru, Peter Drucker, claimed that planning for a more desirable future starts with “a theory of planned abandonment.” He offered a question to launch it: If we hadn’t inherited it, would we …
By Catherine Kramer The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) examined international educational systems, highlighting two countries – Japan and Singapore – for promoting equity among marginalized populations. According to NCEE, in Singapore and Japan, 49% of the …
By Aaron Leo, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Kristen C. Wilcox, Director of Research and Development Team-based approaches to improve school functioning and student outcomes offer great promise, yet frequently yield mixed results. Too often, school-based teams lack the time and direction …
The NYKids team attended the sixth annual Carnegie Foundation Summit hosted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Summit brings together practicing K-12 and post-secondary educators, researchers, policymakers and others to focus on improving educational outcomes. Improvement …
By Catherine Kramer, Research Assistant, Kristen Wilcox, Director of Research and Development, Kathryn Schiller, Co-Investigator School culture survey results, part of the college and career readiness study, reveal that the clearest difference between odds-beaters and their typically performing peers involves …