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LEADING INDICATORS SPOTLIGHT SERIES
A series of research briefs that highlight three of the most useful and accessible leading indicators; early reading proficiency, algebra enrollment and achievement, and the use of college and pre-college admission test scores for high school placement.
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Products developed from the Institute’s many research projects include data and issue analyses, reports, case studies, frameworks, tools, and meta-reviews. These resources aim to help a range of community and district stakeholders develop and implement evidence-based school-improvement efforts and work together toward the vision of a smart education system that provides results and equity at scale.
LEADING INDICATORS SPOTLIGHT SERIES
A series of research briefs that highlight three of the most useful and accessible leading indicators; early reading proficiency, algebra enrollment and achievement, and the use of college and pre-college admission test scores for high school placement.> Research briefs and report
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2009
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Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: Case Study Series
A six-year study documents the positive impact of local community organizing on school capacity and student learning in seven urban communities. (October 2009)
A six-year study documents the positive impact of local community organizing on school capacity and student learning in seven urban communities. (October 2009)
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Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition & Sistas and Brothas United
New school facilities and repairs relieved overcrowding and youth leaders collaborated with educators to open a new small high school with a youth leadership and community action model. (October 2009)
New school facilities and repairs relieved overcrowding and youth leaders collaborated with educators to open a new small high school with a youth leadership and community action model. (October 2009)
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Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project and Youth United for Change (Philadelphia)
Organizing won greater parental access to school information, and new small high schools showed gains in attendance and student college-going plans. (October 2009)
Organizing won greater parental access to school information, and new small high schools showed gains in attendance and student college-going plans. (October 2009)
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Are New York City’s Public Schools Preparing Students for Success in College?
John Garvey, former Associate Dean for Collaborative Programs at CUNY, details the shortcomings of NYC’s college-readiness system and outlines what needs to be done to get more students ready for higher education. (September 2009)
John Garvey, former Associate Dean for Collaborative Programs at CUNY, details the shortcomings of NYC’s college-readiness system and outlines what needs to be done to get more students ready for higher education. (September 2009)
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People Acting for Community Together (Miami)
A new literacy program and extensive community engagement improved community-school relationships and helped to raise low reading achievement in twenty-seven elementary schools. (September 2009)
A new literacy program and extensive community engagement improved community-school relationships and helped to raise low reading achievement in twenty-seven elementary schools. (September 2009)
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Oakland Community Organizations: Building a Districtwide Small Schools Movement
A six-year study documents the success of OCO in building a districtwide movement that ultimately created 48 new small schools that are raising student achievement. (Summer 2009)
A six-year study documents the success of OCO in building a districtwide movement that ultimately created 48 new small schools that are raising student achievement. (Summer 2009)
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Chicago ACORN (work currently led by Action Now)
Organizing led to a new statewide, cross-sector program to train community residents as teachers for hard-to-staff schools. (August 2009)
Organizing led to a new statewide, cross-sector program to train community residents as teachers for hard-to-staff schools. (August 2009)
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Community Coalition,
Los Angeles: Securing a College Prep Curriculum for All Students
Youth-led organizing and a citywide coalition resulted in a new district resolution mandating a college preparatory curriculum for all high schools. (July 2009)
Youth-led organizing and a citywide coalition resulted in a new district resolution mandating a college preparatory curriculum for all high schools. (July 2009)
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Austin Interfaith: Building Partnerships to Reinvent School Culture
Through the Alliance Schools network, the group created new parent and school leadership, brought new resources to the district, and improved student performance. (June 2009)
Through the Alliance Schools network, the group created new parent and school leadership, brought new resources to the district, and improved student performance. (June 2009)
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Looming Crisis or Historic Opportunity?
Meeting the Challenge of the Regents Graduation Standards
A new report from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice detailing the challenges of the new Regents diploma requirements to the city’s already low graduation rates. CEJ calls on the city and state to take immediate steps to help students meet the higher standards. (February 2009)
Meeting the Challenge of the Regents Graduation Standards
A new report from the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice detailing the challenges of the new Regents diploma requirements to the city’s already low graduation rates. CEJ calls on the city and state to take immediate steps to help students meet the higher standards. (February 2009)
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Safety with Dignity: Alternatives to the Over-Policing of Schools
A new study looks at examples of NYC schools with successful school safety models that have improved safety and discipline with positive rather than punitive school safety and discipline measures. (2009)
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A new study looks at examples of NYC schools with successful school safety models that have improved safety and discipline with positive rather than punitive school safety and discipline measures. (2009)
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2008
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Beyond Test Scores: Leading Indicators for Education
This study 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. (2008)
This study 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. (2008)
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Building College Pathways Takes A Village: Findings from the North Philadelphia College Ambassadors Project
This report follows an action research project designed to complement the award-winning documentary First Person, which follows six Philadelphia high school students as they try to make it to college. (2008)
This report follows an action research project designed to complement the award-winning documentary First Person, which follows six Philadelphia high school students as they try to make it to college. (2008)
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Meta-Review of Recent Reports on the Providence Public School District
This report presents the results of a meta-review of eleven recent reports, evaluations, and audits of the Providence Public Schools. (2008)
This report presents the results of a meta-review of eleven recent reports, evaluations, and audits of the Providence Public Schools. (2008)
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Organized Communities, Stronger Schools
A preview of findings from a six-year study of the impact of community organizing on school improvement in seven urban communities. (2008)
A preview of findings from a six-year study of the impact of community organizing on school improvement in seven urban communities. (2008)
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Our Children Can't Wait: A Proposal to Close the Middle-Grades Achievement Gap
This report was written for the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) and calls on Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein to take bold action by implementing recommendations of the New York City Council Middle School Task Force. (2008)
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This report was written for the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) and calls on Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein to take bold action by implementing recommendations of the New York City Council Middle School Task Force. (2008)
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2007
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Beating the Odds: How thirteen NYC Schools Bring Low-Performing Ninth-Graders to Timely Graduation and College Enrollment
A report on a qualitative study of thirteen NYC high schools that are successfully preparing low-performing ninth-graders for timely high school graduation and enrollment in college. (2007)
A report on a qualitative study of thirteen NYC high schools that are successfully preparing low-performing ninth-graders for timely high school graduation and enrollment in college. (2007)
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Middle-Grades Report: Platforms for Success or Pathways to Failure?
A report highlighting inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between high- and low-performing middle-grade schools in NYC. (2007)
A report highlighting inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between high- and low-performing middle-grade schools in NYC. (2007)
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Strategies to Improve Data Collection on New York’s Homeless Students
This report was written to assist New York State in improving the accuracy and efficiency of its data collection on homeless students as a first step to ensuring that these students do not encounter barriers to school attendance and educational success. (2007)
This report was written to assist New York State in improving the accuracy and efficiency of its data collection on homeless students as a first step to ensuring that these students do not encounter barriers to school attendance and educational success. (2007)
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Urban Schools, Public Will
This book by the Annenberg Institute’s Norm Fruchter draws on a rich array of research and personal experience to examine why, fifty years beyond Brown v. Board, urban districts have failed poor students of color and what must be done to transform our city schools. (2007)
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This book by the Annenberg Institute’s Norm Fruchter draws on a rich array of research and personal experience to examine why, fifty years beyond Brown v. Board, urban districts have failed poor students of color and what must be done to transform our city schools. (2007)
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2005
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From Data to Decisions: Lessons from School Districts Using Data Warehousing
This report offers district leaders practical information about data warehousing from eight districts that have successfully used this approach. (2005)
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This report offers district leaders practical information about data warehousing from eight districts that have successfully used this approach. (2005)
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2004
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Community Perspectives on High School Graduation Requirements
This study looks at community attitudes about high school graduation requirements as part of Providence’s high school redesign initiative. The report describes the views of community members, elicited in focus groups and interviews. (2004)
This study looks at community attitudes about high school graduation requirements as part of Providence’s high school redesign initiative. The report describes the views of community members, elicited in focus groups and interviews. (2004)
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Constituents of Change: Community Organizations and Public Education Reform
This report is an analysis of the education work of eight highly developed community organizing groups, and develops and articulates a dynamic, mixed method research design to specify the relationships that link organizing efforts to changes in schooling outcomes. (2004)
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This report is an analysis of the education work of eight highly developed community organizing groups, and develops and articulates a dynamic, mixed method research design to specify the relationships that link organizing efforts to changes in schooling outcomes. (2004)
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2003
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The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform
The Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform commissioned “Lessons and Reflections”not to memorialize further a landmark philanthropic gesture but to impart what we learned from successes and failures. (2003)
The Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform commissioned “Lessons and Reflections”not to memorialize further a landmark philanthropic gesture but to impart what we learned from successes and failures. (2003)
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Research Perspectives on School Reform: Lessons From the Annenberg Challenge
This collection of essays, written by project directors and local evaluators at seven of the Annenberg Challenge sites, offers a unique, inside view of what the projects set out to do and how the partnerships between Challenge research and program staffs at the sites helped clarify and refocus the work over time. (2003)
This collection of essays, written by project directors and local evaluators at seven of the Annenberg Challenge sites, offers a unique, inside view of what the projects set out to do and how the partnerships between Challenge research and program staffs at the sites helped clarify and refocus the work over time. (2003)
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