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STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE DATA COLLECTION ON NEW YORK’S HOMELESS STUDENTS
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A Report to NYS-TEACHS and the New York State Education Department
Carol Ascher, Carolyn Jarvis, and Christina Mokhtar
The Annenberg Institute prepared this report to assist New York State in improving the accuracy and efficiency of its data collection on homeless students, required by both the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act and New York State law as a first step to ensuring that these students do not encounter barriers to school attendance and educational success.
Funded by the NYS Education Department, this study analyzed:
- indicators of the extent of student homelessness
- the legal context for collecting information;
- identification of homeless students across urban, suburban, and rural districts; and
- challenges to data collection, including confidentiality issues.
The report offers specific recommendations to strengthen New York State's data-collection system to provide a more accurate understanding of student homelessness and to better serve homeless students across New York.
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BEYOND TEST SCORES: LEADING INDICATORS FOR EDUCATION
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“Leading indicators” in education as in economics can provide early signs of progress toward academic achievement and thus help district leaders and other stakeholders make informed decisions about efforts to improve student learning before the test results come in. A new study by the Annenberg Institute, Beyond Test Scores: Leading Indicators for Education, looks at four districts Chattanooga, Montgomery County (MD), Naperville (IN), and Philadelphia that have developed leading indicators and seeks to expand the notion of these difficult-to-quantify but important measures, such as student engagement and central office practice. (2008)
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Building College Pathways Takes A Village:
Findings from the North Philadelphia College Ambassadors Project
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The Annenberg Institute’s report Building College Pathways Takes A Village describes the North Philadelphia College Ambassadors, an action research project that the Institute helped develop, support, and promote. The project trains groups of young Black men to analyze the post-secondary opportunities and supports available to them in their schools and communities and to advocate for a comprehensive neighborhood- and city-based support network. The project was designed to complement the award-winning documentary First Person, which follows six Philadelphia high school students as they try to make it to college.
- Organized Communities, Stronger Schools
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A preview of findings from a six-year study of the impact of community organizing on school improvement in seven urban communities.
The study finds that effective community organizing
- contributes to an improved learning environment and improved educational outcomes for students
- strengthens school-community relations, parent engagement, and a sense of community and trust in schools
- stimulates important changes in policy, practices, and resource distribution that expand equity and capacity at the system level, especially in historically underserved communities
- Middle-Grades Report: Platforms for Success or Pathways to Failure?
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A report highlighting inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between high- and low-performing middle-grade schools in NYC. The report concludes that these inequities contribute to the failure of many middle-grade schools to prepare their students for the rigors of high school and beyond. (2007)
- Our Children Can't Wait: A Proposal to Close the Middle-Grades Achievement Gap
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This report was written for the NYC Coalition
for Educational Justice (CEJ) by the Community
Involvement Program of the Annenberg Institute. It calls on Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein to take bold action by implementing recommendations of the New
York City Council Middle School Task Force. (2007)
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