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Cheri Fancsali; June Mark; Janice Lee – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2025
This brief examines the New York City Public Schools' (NYCPS) Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative's efforts to build teacher capacity and support the implementation of computer science (CS) education across K-12 classrooms. The initiative, launched in 2015, aimed to deliver high-quality CS education to all students by providing robust…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Kathryn Hill; Michelle Flores; Rishika Jain; Edgar Rivera-Cash – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2025
This report focuses on the NYC Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative's efforts to build schools' capacity to expand access to CS across the district. Launched in 2015, CS4All aimed to provide a meaningful CS experience to every student at least once within each grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12). As the initiative matured, it also began to…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Cheri Fancsali; June Mark; Kathryn Hill, Contributor; Xia Li, Contributor; Janice Lee, Contributor; Rishika Jain, Contributor; Michelle Flores, Contributor – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2024
New York City's Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative, launched in 2015, aimed to provide all students across the system with at least one CS experience at each grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12). The initiative placed particular emphasis on broadening participation among girls, and Black and Latinx students, who are underrepresented in…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Duffy, Mark; Eddins, Mary – Research for Action, 2022
Personalized, competency-based learning efforts often take place in a single classroom or school, but not systematically across districts, let alone states. To address this dynamic and increase the scale of personalized, competency-based learning, KnowledgeWorks, an independent nonprofit organization that partners with education stakeholders to…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Competency Based Education, State Programs, Program Implementation
Villavicencio, Adriana; Hill, Kathryn; Klevan, Sarah – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2020
Like other institutions, the country's education system is challenged by systemic racism. Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, schools remain largely segregated by race. Predominantly White school districts receive far more funding compared with districts that serve mostly students of color. Black and Brown children are more likely…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Racial Bias, School Districts, Teacher Expectations of Students
Levin, Stephanie; Leow, Christine; Poglinco, Susan M. – Research For Action, 2013
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the development and dissemination of high quality instructional and formative assessment tools to support teachers' incorporation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) into their classroom instruction. Literacy experts have developed a framework and a set of templates that teachers can use…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Program Implementation