New Report Details Positive Outcomes for City Connects Students, Schools
Fifteen years ago, a small team of school, university, and community partners began working on creating the system of student support that […]
Tag: Achievement Gap
Support All Students to Close the Achievement Gap
Over on ASCD‘s “The Whole Child” blog, City Connects Executive Director Mary Walsh has a guest blog post about how schools can […]
One in five schools considered high-poverty
The latest data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ “The Condition of Education 2013” report, released in May, shows that one […]
The connection between students’ health & poverty
Research shows that out-of-school factors (like hunger or homelessness) contribute to two-thirds of the achievement gap, with the other third being attributable […]
The impact of poverty and out-of-school factors in the news
Central to City Connects’ work is the belief that addressing the “out-of-school” factors impacting students helps them come to school ready to […]
Massachusetts Governor Hosts Education Summit
This morning, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick hosted Education Summit 2011: Closing the Achievement Gap. Joined by Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville […]
New White Papers on “Achievable and Affordable” Education
The Campaign for Educational Equity, based at Columbia University’s Teachers College, issued five very interesting white papers about student support and the […]
Grant Awarded to Study Impact of Student Support on Immigrant Children
Researcher Eric Dearing, PhD, associate professor of applied developmental psychology at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and member of the City […]
City Connects in Education Week’s ‘Futures of School Reform’ blog
As we wrote about earlier this week, Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville has been writing this week about the importance of […]
Out-of-School Factors In the News
Central to our philosophy at City Connects is that the out-of-school factors affecting students have a great impact on their ability to […]