City Connects inside community schools
Community schools and City Connects are philosophically aligned programs — both help students thrive by meeting their comprehensive needs. The approaches are […]
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New research on lowering high school dropout rates
To protect students from the risk of dropping out of high school, start by helping them when they are in elementary school. […]
How City Connects Keeps Learning
City Connects is constantly learning. We learn from the experiences of our City Connects coordinators and the national array of schools and […]
Seven Things We Know from the Developmental Sciences
Because science tells us more and more about how children’s brains work, we’ve gotten better at providing children with the services and […]
New Report Shares What We are Learning
Since 2001, City Connects has offered a way for schools to address the out-of-school factors that affect children’s learning inside school. The […]
A Video Tells Our Story
We’re excited about our new video. It’s an overview of how City Connects gets the right services to the right child at […]
Understanding Why City Connects Works
We’ve known that students who participate in City Connects during elementary school do well on middle school assessments of academic achievement. However, we […]
By the Numbers: City Connects’ Impact on Immigrant Children
Professor Eric Dearing conducted research that looked at how immigrant children do in City Connects schools. Dearing is a professor in the […]
Research at City Connects
How do we know City Connects makes a difference? We can see the impact in a child’s smile. And we know […]
New Conversations – A Policy Brief
We think it’s a new moment — and it’s full of new conversations. Science is increasingly talking about how and why […]