by Aaron Leo, Kristen C. Wilcox, and Paul Guay After a year of hard work, our latest study, “NYKids’ 20th Anniversary Study of Emergent and Persistent Positive Outlier Schools: What Accounts for Better Student Outcomes Over Time?” is on its …
Twentieth Year of NYKids Informing, Inspiring, and Improving New year, new logo, new study! NYKids is excited to announce that 2024 is our 20th year of fulfilling our mission “to inform, inspire, and improve.” We extend appreciation to the state …
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 & Kristen C. Wilcox Recent NYKids blogs have explored findings from our latest report, “Opportunities and Challenges to Adapt and Innovate: How Educators Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The research drew on interviews and focus groups with 88 …
By Aaron Leo and Kristen C. Wilcox As we have recounted in previous blogs, NYKids’ most recent study explored the impacts of the pandemic on educators in six schools throughout New York State. One line of inquiry we pursued was …
By Aaron Leo, Kristen Wilcox, and Jessie Tobin This week, NYKids Graduate Assistant and UAlbany Educational Policy and Leadership doctoral student Jessie Tobin presents findings from NYKids’ College and Career Readiness Study on peer relationships at the American Educational Research …
By Catherine Guthrie In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, district and building leaders across the United States are tasked with reimagining what public education will look like for students when they come back to school this fall. With discussion …
By Jessie Tobin, Aaron Leo, & Kristen C. Wilcox Prospects of a brighter future are becoming clearer as another COVID-19 vaccine is approved and the arrival of spring is just around the corner. The anticipation to emerge from a global …
By Kristen C. Wilcox, Aaron Leo, Lisa Yu, & Jessie Tobin We are pleased to announce that our new report entitled College and Career Readiness: Students’ Perspectives on Life After High School is now available on our website! Our new report …
By Aaron Leo & Kristen C. Wilcox In educational research, the concept of agency has provided a valuable conceptual alternative to deterministic portrayals of schools as oppressive institutions where teachers and students have little power over how they teach and …