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 …
By Catherine Kramer Kristen Wilcox, Catherine Kramer, and Hal Lawson presented findings from the latest study (college and career readiness) at the annual conference of the American Education Research Association. The presentation focused on how educators in odds-beating secondary schools …
by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox “We’re not afraid to be ourselves… we [have] academic freedom and flexibility.” – Sherburne-Earlville teacher “…the student … as opposed to being taught to, they’re more taught with and we’re taught by them.” …
By Kathryn S. Schiller, Co-Investigator, Catherine Kramer, Research Assistant, and Kristen C. Wilcox, Director of Research and Development Since 2004, NYKids has studied elementary, middle, and high schools that beat the odds in terms of student outcomes. Each study addresses …