By David Hurst, Ph.D, Deputy Superintendent of Bethlehem Central School District This is Part 2 of our blog series (see Part 1 here) on the importance of inclusive and safe school climates. In this blog, Dr. David Hurst, Deputy Superintendent …
By Maria I. Khan and Kristen C. Wilcox “We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure.” – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Collecting, interpreting, and using data is necessary for knowing what changes worked, for whom they worked, …
by Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox Two years in at the time of this writing, the far-reaching and profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are not fully understood. Emerging research suggests that the pandemic has exacerbated already existing inequalities …
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 …
By Kristen C. Wilcox & Aaron Leo Educators are responding to the numerous challenges they face in moving to a completely online format due to COVID-19-prompted school closures. In this blog we check in with the principal of Malverne Senior …
By Hal A. Lawson As the 20th Century closed, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and its Council on Adolescent Development published a clarion call to action, A Matter of Time: Risk and Opportunity in the Nonschool Hours. This report …
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 …