tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661472061647362352014-03-17T22:10:29.472-04:00A source for relevent news, information, and data about education and related issues in and around Greater Cincinnati.Strivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15676302435217283840noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366147206164736235.post-46669424330523994732010-12-02T13:14:00.006-05:002010-12-02T14:17:41.372-05:00

The Strive Partnership has a brand new web site up and running that is designed to be more interactive and partnership focused. The site is also the new home to this blog, which has been integrated into the heart of the site.Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. The new feed can be found here. Over the course of the next few months, the site will be populated with more content and the data

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On Tuesday, October 26, the Strive Partnership, Stand for Kids, and Parents for Public Schools hosted a Community Conversation on Education. A diverse group of over 200 parents, teachers, and community members attended the event at Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS). The discussion focused two important questions we face in Cincinnati: how do we ensure that every student is succeeding academically,

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Waiting for Superman, a highly anticipated documentary about the current state of education in the U.S., will open tomorrow in Cincinnati and Newport. By all accounts, Waiting for Superman is a powerful movie about the role education plays in reducing poverty and expanding opportunity. We care about this subject, and so we hope the movie leads to an important conversation locally about reform

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The Gateway Partnership in California was recently selected to receive a national Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant. Gateway is part of Strive’s national network of similar Cradle-to-Career partnerships. Here is what Gateway wrote about our role in their application:The initial planning grant and support from Living Cities and Strive helped us design a strategic cradle to career framework

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UC is expecting more than 41,000 students when classes begin on Sept. 22, as well as its most academically prepared freshmen for the Uptown Campus.Overall Enrollment:2010 – 41,250 (up 4.0 percent from Autumn 2009)UC Freshmen :Overall freshmen expected for 2010 – 6,000Uptown Campus, baccalaureate degree-seeking – 3,900 (up 7.0 percent from 2009)Uptown Campus- FreshmenAverage ACT – 25.0 (2009: 24.8

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The UC Economics Center for Education and Research recently discussed some research in the areas of early childhood education, academic achievement test scores, and how we measure success.The article highlighted a recent Harvard study of more than 17,000 children who were educated in the early 1980s and now are adults. The author, like others, found that early childhood education with good

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For the first time since the state began rating public school districts a decade ago, Cincinnati Public Schools has advanced to the Effective category on the Ohio School Report Card. The district announced this at a press conference this morning. "We are thrilled to reach this milestone," said Superintendent Mary Ronan. "It is a reflection of the hard work - and team work - of our school and

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Fourteen of Northern Kentucky's 22 public high schools raised their composite ACT scores in 2010, with Silver Grove School showing the most significant improvement over 2009. The assessment, given by law to all of the state's juniors (44,390 in 2010) each spring since 2008, gives an indication of how college-ready they are in math, reading, English and science. Kentucky was one of seven states

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Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan announced some significant improvements in academics at some of the districts worst-performing schools, including six elementary schools that leapfrogged one to two rankings out of the "Academic Emergency" for the first time in years. According to preliminary Ohio Report Card result, 13 of the 16 elementary schools that the district had

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The Greater Cincinnati Workforce Network has recently released the key findings of its 2010 Employer Survey. The purpose of the survey was to better understand current and future workforce needs of businesses within our region to help workforce development efforts become more responsive to the needs of employers. Click here to download the brief 5-page report. KEY FINDINGS - Shortage of

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Last week, multiple media outlets reported on the news from the College Board that the United States dropped from #1 to #12 in the world as it relates to college completion.  Among other sources, stories can be found in the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today. The image below is from the New York Times and depicts this story in a map and graph: In the same

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The Corporation for National and Community Services has awarded United Way of Greater Cincinnati, The Strive Partnership and other community partners a $2 million 2010 Social Innovation Fund grant in support of the organizations' collaborative efforts to address economic opportunities, youth development and school support.Over 60 organizations applied to the federal fund and eleven were awarded

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The efforts of aligning around education priorities in Northern Kentucky was featured in a recent story in the Kentucky Enquirer. The article speaks to the join efforts of the Council of Partners, Vision 2015, and the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. It can be tough to create big, across-the-board education improvements in Northern Kentucky, home of 18 public school districts, three major

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EdTrust West recently published a policy brief on the importance of and steps to creating a statewide data system that enables access to more comprehensive and better data to improve student acheivement.  The policy brief focuses on California, but the principles in the paper can apply to any state.  The brief draws on the 2008 McKinsey report entitled "Framework for a Comprehensive Education

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An editorial in the Charlotte Observer addresses the challenge of students leaving school without a high school diploma.  The author suggests systemic alignment from preschool through college as the need and cites the Harlem Children's Zone and Strive as strong models. The high school years are most fruitful when students are provided appropriate goal-setting, support for planning an attainable

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The Strive Partnership brings together leaders at all levels from the education, business, nonprofit, community, civic and philanthropic sectors to support every child, every step of the way, cradle to career. The Striving Together report serves as a catalyst for discussion in our community about the current state of education. By reviewing trends over time, we can highlight where we are having

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Growing Well Director Marilyn Crumpton recently gave a presentation on school based health centers at the Coalition for Community Schools National Conference. There are currently 6 school based health centers operating in Cincinnati Public Schools. Embedded below is a short video with Principal Craig Hockenberry about the health center at Oyler Elementary school in the Price Hill Neighborhood of

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Strive Six Sigma, developed in partnership with General Electric, provides a common framework to get from point A to point B. It’s how we help coordinate a group of very individual, independent organizations with a similar mission to becoming a cohesive Network of organizations working together towards the same goals.Strive Six Sigma relies on data; it helps to identify what data is needed to

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The Hamilton County Families and Children First Council recently released a resource guide on achieving outcomes as a result of increased parent and family involvment in school. The publication aims to serve as a step by step guide to implement best practices, from policy development to monitoring an implementation plan. The end goal is to provide the tools to create a school with deep and

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There may be snow on the ground, but the Leadership Scholars 2010 Summer Program is gearin gup to recruit some fantastic teachers to be in the program! This is a four week opportunity, running from June 14 - July 9. Teachers are required to be at the Summer Program each day from 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM. There is a $2000 stipend for the 4 weeks.Core Values and BeliefsPower of Leadership: We believe that

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AFT President Randi Weingarten's recent speeches on the direction of the union as it relates to teacher evaluations is being welcomed by a broad cross section of leadership nationally. NYT recently wrote the ditorial below, but this is just one of many from major media outlets. This editorial references The New Teachers Project, which recently conducted a study in Cincinnati Public Schools. Their

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A recent article in the Huffington Post discusses the jobs outlook and suggests that the highest unemployment rate in nearly 30 years is here to stay for the forseeable future. The fastest growing occupations require a college degree or some type of postsecondary career training, and according to another recent report out of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, there are over 88 million adults that do

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AFT President Randi Weingarten laid out the clearest vision to date on the role she believes her union can help to play to improve teacher quality. Pushed in part by the dramatic changes the Obama Administration is pushing for as part of the Race to the Top grant, she stated in no uncertain terms that she was willing to link student performance to teacher evaluation. This has a direct impact on

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Just recently, a landmark deomographic shift was realized in the South. The NYT carried the story below with supporting stats from Ed Trust. This challenges all of us to see that while education should have transformed already, in the face of a rapidly changing student population it simply has to if we are to achieve our shared goals of every student succeeding. KnowledgeWorks Foundation worked

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USA Today had an interesting story yesterday about the population shift from private to public schools as a result of the economy. See:http://www.usatoday.com/_ads/interstitial/2008/page/interstitial_new.htm?http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-01-06-1Apublicprivate06_CV_N.htmThe story actually contains interesting insights from peopel who have made the shift and highlights how tough the

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