Research

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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2023 Report
     
    The 2023 report presents an updated set of data for school year 2021-22. This report presents several different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves by disaggregating results, showing trends, and combining variables. The companion online dashboard has been updated with the most recent data allowing districts to conduct several comparisons and analysis beyond what is presented in this report. To access this system, go to www.edwires.org.
    196 pages
    October 2023
     
     
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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 reportpresents a number of different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves bydisaggregating results, showing trends, and combining variables. The companion online dashboard addsthe 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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    Academic Key Performance Indicators, 2021 Report
     
    The 2021 report presents an updated set of data through school year 2019-20. This report presents a number of different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves by disaggregating results, showing trends, and combining variables. This year, a companion online dashboard was released that added 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 2021
     
     
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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, 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 reportthere 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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    Student Testing in America’s Great City Schools: An Inventory and Preliminary Analysis
     
    In the Spring of 2014, the Council staff developed and launched a survey of assessment practices. This report presents the findings from that survey and subsequent Council analysis and review of the data. It also offers an initial set of observations about testing in our school systems and how it might be improved. The report does not answer all questions, but it should give a more complete and well-rounded picture of the amount and range of tests administered in the nation's urban schools.
    164 pages
    October 2015