In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and related school closures, educators across the world continue to express concerns about keeping students engaged. For instance, a recent report by the Center for Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University reports …
This summer, NYKids has been busy releasing case studies of schools which participated our latest study of Persistent and Emergent Positive Outliers in New York State. This study explores schools we identified as positive outliers in prior NYKids studies (“persistent …
This summer, the NYKids team continues to release case studies from our 20th anniversary study. This year, we’ve returned to schools from our previous study which have continued to demonstrate positive outlier status (what we call “persistent positive outliers”) as …
By Manya C. Bouteneff, Ed.D. Poverty is not fate. The cycle of poverty and poor academic performance is not inevitable. I identified high-poverty, non-selective public schools in New York State where Economically Disadvantaged (ED) students do well according to rigorous …