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 online has highlighted unequal access to technology …
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 prepared for college or …
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-populations and did so over several years. New York State Regents and Advanced Regents diploma rates …
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 offers some insights. Alfred-Almond was one of seven schools identified for their …
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 Educational Renewal (NNER) when he made the following claim: “Schools …
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 are shifting their instruction to online spaces to support their students’ learning remotely during these unprecedented times. …
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 explore how educators support …