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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The NYKids College and Career Readiness study identified “positive outlier” schools that consistently produced better-than-predicted graduation outcomes for diverse student sub […]

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 […]

The late John Goodlad, internationally acclaimed educational renewal leader, once sparked controversy among members of the Leadership Academy for The National Network for […]

Educators everywhere […]

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 e […]

Through this second 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 the odds-beating s […]

Increasing diversity in suburban communities challenges the prevailing myth that students educated in suburban schools come from White and middle-class families. Instead, recent studies have […]

As the student population in New York State and across the country continues to become more socioeconomically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse, the challenge of engaging each […]

Since the early 2000’s New York State has seen changes evident across the nation, and these changes have affected schools and the children and adults who step in their doors e […]

The unique characteristics of rural school districts and their surrounding communities present both challenges and opportunities for rural school educators. Some of the challenges faced by […]

A major goal of qualitative research is to glean a rich and deep understanding of participants’ experiences and perspectives. Unlike quantitative studies that often seek to confirm a hypothesis o […]

Organizational models and leadership practices can play a significant role in affecting student outcomes. As noted in recent school leadership research, “Leaders in schools m […]

Finding out what kids think about their educational experiences is key to improving what educators do. At the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a core […]

School and system leaders need innovations that help them to produce improvements that address disparities of opportunities and outcomes experienced by too many marginalized youth in K-12 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

NYKids’ new self-assessment tool provides a s […]