the research alliance for nyc schools brochure

8/12/2019 The Research Alliance for NYC Schools Brochure

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The Research Alliance for

New York City Schools

conducts rigorous studies on

topics that matter to the Citys

public schools. We work toadvance equity and excellence

in education by providing

credible, nonpartisan evidence

about policies and practices

that promote student success.

Founded in 2008 at New York

Universitys Steinhardt School of

Culture, Education, and Human

Development, the Research Alliance

focuses on:

Maintaining a unique archive of

longitudinal data from NYC schools;

Conducting rigorous, applied research

in collaboration with policymakers,

educators and other research

institutions; and

Communicating the results of our

work to education stakeholders in

NYC and around the nation, with the

goal of informing smarter policies and

more effective schools.

The Research Alliance in Action

The Research Alliance strives to produce wowith immediate, practical value for a range ostakeholders.

We regularly brief the NYC Department ofEducation about emerging ndings and tren

and their implications for policy.

We create customized reports with dataand recommendations for individual schoolin many of our studies, allowing them toidentifyin a timely waywhere they aresucceeding and where theycan improve.

Our ndings inform the work of communitygroups. For instance, the Legal, Economic,and Educational Advancement Project at

Fordham Law School used our report, HighSchool Choice in New York City, to helpdesign a curriculum for volunteers workingwith middle school students and their famili

Learning from Successful Schools

The Research Alliances report on turnaround middleschools identied overarching conditions, as wellas specic strategies, that helped middle schools

enhance teaching and learning and dramaticallyimprove their performance.

This is one of several Research Alliance studies thatlook closely at the practices of successful middle andhigh schools, in hopes of pinpointing strategies thatmight be expanded or replicated.

Source: Adapted from Villavicencio, Adriana and Justina K. Grayman. 2012.Learning from Turnaround Middle Schools: Strategies for Success.TheResearch Alliance for NYC Schools.

Strategies

for Improving

Teaching and

Learning

Creating smallerlearning communities

Targeting studentsubgroups

Developing teachercapacity

Using data to informinstruction

Essential

Conditions

Aligned needs/goals/actions

Positive workenvironment forteachers

Safety andeffective discipline

Academic

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How We Are Making a Difference

The Research Alliance is

advancing knowledge about:

Achievement and

development in the middle

grades;

High school achievement,

attainment, and post-

secondary preparation;

The use of data and

technology for education

policy and practice; and

Contexts that support

effective teaching.

Philip Kessler Photgraphy for CUNY Institute for Education Policy

The Research Alliance forNew York City Schools

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I believe [the Research Alliance] is a model from which we in Congress,and the country, can learn a great deal. Your partnership with New YorkCity schools to generate useful, timely, actionable research is a crucialstep the research community must take to ensure that the knowledge itgenerates is relevant, as well as rigorous.

George Miller, U.S. House of Representatives,Senior Democrat on the Education

and the Workforce Committee

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