The Research Alliance is continuing our partnership with the NYC DOE to define, measure, and support effective learning environments in NYC schools.

The Student Success Network (SSN) is a group of about 80 youth development and education organizations (including schools) that have coalesced around the goal of measuring and improving students’ social emotional learning skills.

The Research Alliance is collaborating with MDRC on a study that will examine INSIGHTS’ impact on students’ outcomes in middle and high school.

This project will work to identify key indicators of being on track for success in postsecondary education and career pathways, and empirically test the relationship between those indicators and student outcomes.

Research has demonstrated important connections between students’ sense of safety—both physical and emotional—inside their schools and outcomes such as academic effort and achievement.

iMentor is a nonprofit organization that provides school-based mentoring, with a focus on helping students develop the skills they need to be prepared for and succeed in college.

By examining the experiences of schools participating in the Center for Racial Justice in Education’s training, this study contributes to a growing body of research on equity in education and addressing racial injustice in the classroom.

The Expanded Success Initiative (ESI) was designed to improve the educational experiences and outcomes of Black and Latino young men in high schools across the City. To gain an understanding of whether, and how, ESI benefitted students, the Research Alliance undertook a five-year mixed-methods longitudinal evaluation of the initiative.

What can be learned from low-performing middle schools that have beaten the odds and substantially improved student performance?