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Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation

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The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) conducts applied research and evaluation studies focused on promoting positive educational outcomes for youth, and understanding the influence of both schools and communities on those outcomes. Its goal is to use research to inform educational policies and practices at federal, state, local, and programmatic levels.

Current Projects

Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation

Kentucky Collaborative Research and Evaluation Study

The goal of the Kentucky Collaborative Research Study is to understand how family-school partnerships change in schools over a 3-year time period.

PRE's Education Conversation Series

PRE's Education Conversation Series brings together parent leaders, community members, researchers, and other indispensable stakeholders engaged in educational justice work to discuss ways to create culturally responsive and sustaining learning environments for all students and their families.

Going Beyond High School Credit Recovery in Summer Learning: From Remediation to Acceleration

Districts within the District Summer Learning Network (DSLN) are shifting away from the traditional “summer school” remediation model to offer enriching programming that accelerates learning and fosters student well-being. In this Summer Snapshot, we provide practical examples of how two DSLN districts, one small and one large, have re-invented summer learning to prepare high school students for future success.

The NYU Metro Center Family and Community Study

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation is exploring how parents/caregivers and their children work together and talk about issues in their communities.

Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

Parent Organizing for Racial Equity Resources

In January 2021 four organizations that develop parents as leaders, in partnership with the NYU Metro Center and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, committed to advancing parent-led racial equity projects in New Mexico, Mississippi, New York, and Washington. This racial equity peer learning and inquiry community is part of a broad body of work that began with the Parent Leadership Indicators Project.

Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation

Parent Leadership and Organizing for Justice: A Landscape Analysis

This Parent Power and Leadership Survey findings report focuses on parent leadership initiatives that develop leadership skills and knowledge to work collectively toward racial, social, or economic justice. Family engagement leadership.

Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

PRE Research Brief Series

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) conducts applied research and evaluation studies focused on promoting positive educational outcomes for youth, and understanding the influence of both schools and communities on those outcomes. These PRE Research Briefs communicate the essential elements, methodologies, participant recruitment, relevant survey or moderator guide and report formant.

Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation

An Evaluation of the BPS Excellence for All Initiative

Our report provides a primarily qualitative analysis of fidelity and quality of support for student learning in the implementation of the EFA initiative in 16 Boston Public Schools serving 4-6th grade students.

Gates Racial Identity Project

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation is studying a cohort of five leading youth-serving organizations to better understand relationships among racial identity formation.

BEES Evaluation

PRE is working closely with BPS to conduct a 2 year, mixed-method formative evaluation of BEES to understand how the programs works and to determine if participation in BEES has an impact on science outcomes for students.

Organizing Family and Community: Collective Parent Action and Intergenerational Learning

This project, funded by the Spencer Foundation, explores how children learn and thrive when their parents and family members belong to parent leadership and organizing groups.

Parent Leadership Indicators Project

With access to high-quality leadership training and development, parents can become powerful advocates for greater opportunities for children, and the family becomes a vital constituency for improved child and community outcomes.

Parent Leadership Training Institute Evaluation

A program that enables parents to become advocates for children and focuses on parents as partners with agencies and leaders.

Past Projects

Culturally Responsive Mastery-based Education Research Project

Seeks to understand how culturally responsive mastery-based practices influence historically marginalized students’ learning capacities, school engagement, and academic outcomes.

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Youth Organizing Trajectories Study

A study to understand the trajectories of young people who participate in youth organizing (YO)

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The Exploring Leadership Councils Study

A four year, three-cohort, mixed methods study that examines whether and how youth leadership councils (YLCs), foster developmental competencies and critical consciousness.

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Real Parent Power

Current national and local education policies often pit teachers and parents against each other. But in one Minneapolis community, parents and teachers decided to work together with great results. This is their story.

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Evaluation of Academic Parent Teacher Teams

An evaluation of Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) in New York City middle schools.

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Florida Atlantic University High School

FAUHS is the only high school in the country where students concurrently work towards a high school diploma and a bachelor’s degree.

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High School Characteristics and Postsecondary Success among Boston Public School Graduates

The college enrollment rate of Boston Public School graduates may be relatively high (66.2% for the class of 2011), but there is significant variation by race, income level, disability status, and English proficiency.

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