Exploring Equity in AI: Evaluating Professional Learning for Critical AI Pedagogy

This study is evaluating the Exploring Equity in AI initiative, which aims to prepare NYC educators to help students understand, question, and responsibly use artificial intelligence. The study will shed light on program implementation, teacher learning, and student outcomes.

Taking Flight: Exploring Nest Student Outcomes After High School

What happens after high school for students in the Autism Nest Program? The Taking Flight study is following Nest graduates as they move into adulthood, exploring education, work, relationships, and quality of life metrics.

Expanding Opportunities for Transfer High School Students

In partnership with MDRC, the Research Alliance is studying the implementation and impact of innovative career-connected learning strategies in 10 NYC transfer schools.

Assessing the Quality and Reach of Student Pathways to Economic Security

The Research Alliance and MDRC are conducting an in-depth, exploratory study of NYC’s Pathways initiatives, including the FutureReadyNYC and Career Readiness and Modern Youth Apprenticeship (CRMYA) programs. The study is examining how the programs are being implemented, how student and school characteristics are related to student participation and access to career-connected learning opportunities, and how participation is associated with student outcomes.

Study of Saga’s Online Math Tutoring

Can online tutoring boost math achievement? As schools work to recover from pandemic-related learning disruptions, there is keen interest in the potential of high-dosage tutoring to accelerate students' progress in core subjects. In partnership with MDRC, the Research Alliance is studying the implementation and impact of Saga Education's live-online tutoring platform in NYC high schools.

Children First Retrospective

From 2002 to 2013, the Children First reforms represented one of the most ambitious efforts to transform a major urban school system anywhere in the United States. This study draws on in-depth interviews, a synthesis of existing research, and longitudinal analysis of system-wide outcomes data to understand the long-term legacy and impact of the Children First era.

Evaluating the Reach, Quality, and Impact of Computer Science for All in NYC

CS4All is a 10-year, $81 million public-private partnership between the City of New York and the private sector, designed to bring computer science education to every student in NYC public schools.

CTE Innovation and Impact: Lessons from NYC

This project is leveraging the diversity and scale of NYC's CTE programs to learn about the conditions under which CTE is most effective

Evaluating the ExpandEd Schools STEM Options Program

The study is aimed at better understanding how many and which students are interested in STEM apprenticeships, documenting students’ experiences in the programs, and assessing how the programs shape students’ interest and engagement in STEM subjects and fields.

Identifying Strong Transfer Pathways

The Research Alliance is conducting a case study of John Jay's CUNY Justice Academy to understand the practices it uses to support transfer students.

INSIGHTS: Examining Effects of Social-Emotional Learning in Early Education on Longer-Term Student Outcomes

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

Study of the Urban Assembly Network

The Research Alliance for New York City Schools is collaborating with MDRC on a rigorous study of the effects of the Urban Assembly school support network on students’ academic and social emotional outcomes.

Evaluating P-TECH

MDRC is conducting a study of the NYC P-TECH Grades 9-14 school model. The Research Alliance is supporting MDRC’s work by advising on research design and analyses, helping identify appropriate samples of students for the study, and constructing longitudinal data files needed to evaluate P-TECH’s implementation and impact.

Pre-K for All in New York City

This research-practice partnership is supporting the roll out of Pre-K For All in NYC and providing evidence to help improve the quality of pre-k programming.

Supporting AIR's Study of Deeper Learning

The Research Alliance is collaborating with AIR to support the study’s examination of NYC schools that have adopted deeper learning principles and practices.

Design2Learn: An Evaluation of Implementation and Impact

Design2Learn is an afterschool program for students in middle school—a period in which student performance in science often declines sharply.

Evaluating the Expanded Success Initiative

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.

High School Closures in NYC

In New York City, between the 2001-2002 and 2008-2009 school years, the Department of Education identified and scheduled 29 large low-performing high schools for closure. This was part of a larger reform effort that included opening smaller high schools throughout the City and implementing a new system of universal high school choice.

High School Choice in New York City

In recent years, policymakers across the country have instituted school choice policies, which aim to increase equity and narrow achievement gaps by offering students access to a wide range of schools, including schools outside their home neighborhood.

Understanding the Impact of Small High Schools of Choice

Since 1999, the landscape of New York City high schools has changed dramatically. Over 150 new high schools have opened, with an average enrollment of just over 100 students per grade.

Exploring How High Schools Can More Effectively Serve Immigrant Youth

The Internationals Network for Public Schools (INPS) is a system of public high schools that serve recently arrived students with low levels of English language proficiency.

Evaluating iMentor’s School-Wide College Ready Program

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.

Evaluating the Outcomes of the Center for Racial Justice in Education

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.

Evaluating the Safe Public Spaces Program

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.

School of One Impact on Middle School Math Achievement

In the 2010-2011 academic year, three New York City middle schools began piloting School of One (SO1), a program that leverages data to individualize math instruction.

ARIS: Educator Usage and Perceptions of a District-Wide Data System

Unveiled in 2008, New York City’s Achievement Reporting and Innovation System (ARIS) was one of the first district-wide investments in data-driven education reform in the United States, a major undertaking for the nation’s largest school district.

Evaluation of the InnovateNYC Ecosystem

The New York City Department of Education’s InnovateNYC Ecosystem aims to transform the DOE’s procurement process for education technology tools, thereby raising the quantity and quality of technology in NYC classrooms.