High School Research Colloquium:
Learning from New York City’s Portfolio Strategy:
How Policy and Practice Can Inform Research

On November 18, 2010, the Research Alliance, in partnership with the Future of Children Journal, hosted a research colloquium entitled Learning from New York City’s Portfolio Strategy: How Policy and Practice Can Inform Research. The NYC Department of Education’s portfolio strategy targets the NYC’s lowest performing high schools for intervention, drawing from a menu of systemic reforms including transformations, closures and openings. The NYC Department of Education supports these interventions with investments in internal and external resources. The goal of the colloquium was to promote a conversation in which policy makers, practitioners and researchers could suggest areas in which rigorous research can inform ongoing high school reform in NYC.

This study is funded with Research Alliance general support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Robertson Foundation.

Key Staff and Collaborators

Nickisha Stephenson, Thomas Gold, James Kemple, Adriana Villavicencio, Suzanne Wullach and The Future of Children Journal and the Education Research Section, Princeton University.

Publications

Learning from New York City’s Portfolio Strategy: How Policy and Practice Can Inform Research(November, 2010)
Research Alliance High School Colloquium: Informing Research through Policy and Practice (February, 2011)