Achievement

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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2022 Report
     
    The 2022 report presents an updated set of data through school year 2020-21. This report presents a number of different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves by disaggregating results, showing trends, and combining variables. The companion online dashboard adds the ability to conduct several comparisons and analysis beyond what is presented in this report. To access this system, go to www.edwires.org.
    204 pages
    October 2022
     
     
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    Mirrors or Windows: How Well Do Large City Public Schools Overcome the Effects of Poverty and Other Barriers?
     
    Over the last twenty years of district-level assessments on the Nation's Report Card, the participating urban school districts have narrowed the achievement gap in mathematics and reading by about 50 percent. The Mirrors or Windows study found that urban students are making significant progress academically, despite having to overcome the effects of poverty.
    84 pages
    June 2021
     
     
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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2020 Report
     
    The refined set of Academic Key Performance Indicators are designed to measure the progress among the Council’s membership toward improving the academic outcomes for students.
    289 pages
    October 2020
     
     
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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2019 Report
     
    The refined set of Academic Key Performance Indicators are designed to measure the progress among the Council’s membership toward improving the academic outcomes for students.
    282 pages
    October 2019
     
     
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    Academic Key Performance Indicators 2018 Report
     
    This 2018 report focuses on the data collection and analysis of Academic KPIs including: • Pre-K enrollment relative to Kindergarten enrollment • Percent of 4th and 8th graders proficient in reading and math on NAEP • Algebra I completion rates for credit by grade 9 • Ninth grade course failure rates — at least one core course • Absentee rates by grade level • Ninth graders with B average (GPA) or better • Absentee rates by grade level • Suspension rates • Instructional days missed per student
    235 pages
    October 2018
     
     
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    Excellence for All: Creating Environments for Success for Males of Color in the Great City Schools
     
    This report seeks to contribute to the ongoing dialogue of raising our expectations for males of color and provide a resource for school districts seeking to build or recalibrate their initiatives to improve the academic outcomes of young men and boys of color. Throughout this report there are exemplars of current initiatives across the nation’s big cities as well as promising practices in various areas.
    36 pages
    October 2017
     
     
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    School Improvement Grants: Progress Report from America’s Great City Schools
     
    This report measures trends in performance among urban schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant awards as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Additionally, we aim to document how member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools implemented SIG and specifically what effects the program had on student test scores and school “holding power” – the ability of high schools to move students through the system on a timely basis.
    113 pages
    February 2015
     
     
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    Beating the Odds: Analysis of Student Performance on State Assessments: Results from 2011-2012 School Year- City-by-City Profiles
     
    The twelfth edition of Beating the Odds provides city-by-city statistics, which are presented year-by-year and grade-by-grade on each state test in mathematics and reading between spring 2009 through spring 2012.
    44 pages
    Fall 2013