Amanda Lester

By Aaron Leo

Student engagement falls dramatically from 74% in fifth grade to only 34% by the senior year according to a 2016 Gallup Student Poll that surveyed nearly 1 million students throughout the […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox

A recent Learning Policy Institute brief on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) points out that ESSA “… provides states with significant policymaking opportunity and responsibility and cre […]

By Amanda J. Lester

On October 25, 2019 NYKids presented at the New York State School Board Association’s (NYSSBA) 100th Annual Convention and Education Expo in Rochester, NY about findings from the NYKids’ Car […]

By Amanda J. Lester

Preparing young people to succeed not only in college and career, but also in civic life, is a heightened priority. As a globalized economy, rapidly changing information technologies, […]

by Aaron Leo, Amanda J. Lester, Lisa Yu, and Kristen C. Wilcox

On Friday, October 4, the NYKids team presented findings from NYKids’ Career and College Readiness Study during School of Education Day, an event h […]

By Amanda Lester and Kristen C. Wilcox

As noted in a recent Learning Policy Institute (LPI) report, Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to […]

By Amanda Lester

A report released earlier this month by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper […]

By Kristen C. Wilcox

Whether tackling the challenge of differentiating literacy instruction to suit the diverse needs of children in elementary schools or engaging teens at risk of dropping out of high school, […]

by Amanda J. Lester; Kristen C. Wilcox (ed.)

Chronic student absenteeism, typically defined as missing 10% or more school days in one academic year for either excused or unexcused reasons, is a significant […]

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 t […]

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 “ […]

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 s […]