Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy (New York)
2011
The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and NYU's Institute for Education and Social Policy have been awarded a grant by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This work follows up on the research they completed as participants in the NNIP cross-site project on Foreclosures Effects on Children, funded by the Open Society Foundations.
In late January, the Boston Indicators Project released an update of a 2008 “report card” on Boston’s education pipeline and preview of data visualizations using the Weave open source software. Forum panelists included the Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, MA Commissioner of Early Education and Care and MA Commissioner of Higher Education.
In partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, we launched the ambitious AAMAI to support black boys in our public school system and to reduce all gaps in outcomes for these boys. We are currently in a discovery phase documenting promising practices and building a data-driven set of programs and policies to support our goals of reducing disparities in educational outcomes for African-American males in Oakland.
The Ochs Center, formally known as the Community Research Council (CRC), in Chattanooga, TN provided support for the development of Hamilton County’s Reading Initiative.4 At the request of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, the CRC produced a report with a demographic overview of the county, a discussion of demographic factors that may affect reading capacity and detailed data related to pre-school and K through 3 interventions in the county.
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
New charter schools in Baltimore relied heavily on data provided by BNIA to develop their school proposals. A group in the Patterson Park neighborhood asked BNIA in 2003 for help assembling demographic data about the neighborhoods surrounding the park. BNIA provided them with information about the age of children in the neighborhood that was used to estimate the number of children from the neighborhood that would be likely to access a new school. The analysis included data on test scores and enrollment in nearby schools.
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
In the 2000 Communities Count Report, South King County residents were found to have read to their children less than residents in other parts of King County. In South King County 58 percent of Communities Count survey respondents with children age 2-5 read or told stories to them every day (or had a family member do so). This compared with a King County average of 70 percent. The South King County Raising Readers program was developed in 2000 in response to this finding.
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) used data and maps provided by the Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee (NPCM) to redistrict their recreation programming and save money on administrative costs associated with administering multiple districts. As a result of two successive years of budget cuts, MPS Recreation had to reduce the number of Recreation Districts, and therefore District Supervisors/Administrators from 11 to 7, in the summer of 2004, and from 7 to 6 in the summer of 2005.
Urban Institute is excited to announce the NNIP partners in Boston, Durham, New Haven, and San Antonio selected through a competitive Request for Proposals for $50,000...
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
The Greater New Orleans Data Center worked to increase the effective use of data in decisionmaking among member agencies of the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans and the Greater New Orleans After-School Partnership. They did this in partnership with these two large collaboratives by conducting customized trainings, providing technical assistance, and creating web-based information.
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators...
The Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade County funds out-of-school time programs to reduce the number of children spending their out-of-school hours unsupervised and unchallenged. In 2005, the Trust began using service location, utilization and population data in determining where to locate these out-of-school programs in the region.
Urban Institute is excited to announce the NNIP partners in Boston, Durham, New Haven, and San Antonio selected through a competitive Request for Proposals for $50,000...
Community Insight is a platform for displaying data about local communities, understanding community opportunities and needs, and targeting efforts for advancing equity....
Through the Communities For Public Education Reform (CPER) initiative, Piton is partnering with two community organizations, Metro Organizations for People, and Stand for Children to directly engage parents to learn how they are current making decisions about school choice and how to develop improved tools and process (using appropriate technology) to give them more complete and useful information.
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May 2011
Community Data & Research Lab at the Johnson Center (Grand Rapids)
Community Data & Research Lab at the Johnson Center (Grand Rapids)
January 2014
Begun in 2011, this dashboard is TALENT 2025’s “go to” data source for the monitoring of ongoing improvement efforts around two major goals; (1) to achieve 60% post-secondary attainment in the 25 years of age or older West Michigan workforce by 2025 and (2) to achieve 30% attainment of 4 year college degrees or beyond in the 25 years of age workforce by 2024. The primary audience for this project is 50 CEO’s of companies in West Michigan with interest in early childhood, K-12, Higher Education and Adult Workforce issues.
NeighborhoodInfoDC has been providing data and analysis supporting the new Kids Count grantee (DC Action for Children). We released the first of a series of policy briefs based on the 2010 Census in April 27, 2011, entitled “A Tale of Three Cities: What the Census Tells Us and How We Must Repond.”
(Inactive) Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (Philadelphia)
2010 - 2012
MPIP is providing data and mapping assistance to the ArtsRising project being implemented by a combination of arts and children’s organizations. In conjunction with five Philadelphia middle schools, ArtsRising is creating “Arts Zones” to give youths more arts opportunities, both in and out of school. MPIP is helping ArtsRising to identify and map the program assets that exist in the neighborhoods surrounding the five hub schools. MPIP integrated 6 databases of afterschool programs into one comprehensive list of available programs. That list now serves as the backbone of their new ArtsRi
(Inactive) Community Link Capital Region (Sacramento)
July 2011
A collaborative project with the Sacramento City Unified School District and the UC Davis Center for Regional Change using student attendance data to determine the prevalence of chronic absenteeism in Sacramento City schools.
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August 15, 2011
(Inactive) Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (Philadelphia)
Urban Strategies Council facilitated, with the Oakland Unified School District, a nine-month planning process with the multi-stakeholder Full Service Community Task Force. We produced a structural framework that became the foundation of the school district’s five-year strategic plan to develop full service community schools at every site with a strong academic core and integrated focus on youth development, family support and engagement, health and social services and community development.
In late 2010, the Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Unified School District, in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, launched a bold new initiative aimed at addressing the disparities in educational and social outcomes for African American males in Oakland. This six-year initiative has been established with a set of seven key goals that reflect the massive disparities faced by young black males in our city and a set of strategies aimed at improving those outcomes and eliminating most disparities within six years.
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The Skillman Foundation requested that D3 prepare a white paper on the overall well-being of Detroit's children, with a sub-analysis specific to boys of color. This report presents a broad set of indicators on the population aged 0 to 18 years in the City of Detroit. Indicators fall into the following categories: demographic overview, early childhood well-being, child health and access to health care, education, and safety and community. The research provides a basis for a deeper understanding of how best to support Detroit's children, and a benchmark to measure gains in the future.
D3 is providing a baseline profile of the Brightmoor community’s needs and assets. It includes an account of current conditions in Brightmoor covering multiple dimensions; an inventory and mapping of existing assets in the Brightmoor and Cody-Rouge communities; a comprehensive review of existing programs for children ages 0 to 5 in Brightmoor; and a discussion of the gaps revealed by this study between the needs of 0 to 5 year olds in Brightmoor and the resources available to meet the needs.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
March 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012
The PNCIS and education researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are convening a group of interested stakeholders from education and community development fields to develop a common research agenda to guide our work. Many in Pittsburgh are interested in learning more about how families choose schools and communities, and how the Pittsburgh Promise is influencing these decisions. The Pittsburgh Promise offers a scholarship of up to $10,000 per year to students of a Pittsburgh Public or Pittsburgh Charter school in pursuit of their postsecondary education.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
June 1, 2011 to April 1, 2012
Confronted by declining enrollment and decreased revenues, the Pittsburgh Public Schools has proposed to close seven buildings, effective in the 2012-13 school year. Decades of assigning students to schools based on street ranges (and not maps) resulted in irregular and unwieldy attendance boundary geographies. Using data and expertise from the Pittsburgh Neighborhood and Community Information System (PNCIS), school attendance boundaries were redrawn in the fall of 2011.
(Inactive) Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project (Philadelphia)
February 2012
Metropolitan Philidelphia Indicators Project released their most recent policy brief on charter school locations and falling enrollment in traditional public schools.
On May 30th at 10am Pacific, Urban Strategies Council and the Oakland Unified School District will be hosting the first of four webinars focusing on this insightful new research on the inequities faced by African American Males and the efforts underway to eliminate these disparities in education outcomes.
The Ohio Education Research Center will produce and carry out a P-20 education research agenda in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Education and the Ohio Board of Regents. Led by the OSU College of Education and Human Ecology, the center is a collaborative effort of six universities (Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, Miami University, Ohio University, Case Western Reserve University, Wright State University) and four organizations (Battelle Memorial Institute, Battelle for Kids, Community Research Partners, and the Strategic Research Group).
The RI DataHUB is a multi-agency longitudinal data system for anyone interested in the well-being of people in Rhode Island. The DataHUB brings together data sets from multiple federal, state and local sources. Data are currently gathered from local partnering public agencies including: the RI Department of Education (RIDE), the RI Department of Health (HEALTH), the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education (RIBGHE), the RI Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), and Providence Public Schools (PPSD).
CI:Now was awarded a one-year $50,000 operating grant from the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation to support child data integration and community engagement around child data and information. Kronkosky was a founding member of CI:Now when it was organized as the Alamo Area Community Information System (AACIS) in the late 1990s, and the Foundation continues to recognize the power of shared data for improving community conditions.
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is currently no charge for these products, but users are asked to register and let us know how they use our work. Children's Optimal Health works to improve operations, impact policy, engage the community and support research to improve the health and well-being of all children in Central Texas.
The 2012 Michigan Scorecard, a product of collaboration between The Center for Michigan and Data Driven Detroit, is now available. The Scorecard tracks Michigan’s status through twenty-eight measures in three areas: Talent and Education, Economy and Quality of Life, and Effective Government.
The 2012 Scorecard is an update to the Michigan Scorecards produced in 2010 and 2008, allowing readers to see at a glance how the state’s scores have changed over time.
With school closings, specialized school openings, and inconsistent transportation, students in Detroit Public Schools often find themselves attending school far from home. To better understand this issue, Data Driven Detroit has published over one thousand new maps. Detroit Public Schools shared data on where all their 2011-2012 students live and go to school. D3 mapped the data to tell three kinds of stories...
D3 has created an interactive tool to provide prospective re-developers with contextual information about Detroit Public School properties that are featured for sale. This tool was designed by Data Driven Detroit to highlight contextual information which may be relevant to developers. Information was supplied by the Detroit Public Schools, in partnership with The City Planning Commission, The City Councial Historic Designation Advisory Board and the Michigan Association of Planning.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
August 29, 2012
Poverty Center Co-Director Claudia Coulton was honored this week when she was named a Distinguished University Professor during Case Western Reserve University's fall convocation, held on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
CRP and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute are partnering to conduct research on student mobility in Ohio. This first-of-its-kind research, to be completed by fall 2012, will analyze Ohio Department of Education K-12 student-level records over three school years to provide a picture of student mobility for each Ohio public school district and building and public charter school, with in-depth analysis for the largest urban areas and large statewide e–schools.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
June 2013 - December 2015
The Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development (CUPCD), based at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, is working with the Ohio Longitudinal Data Archive (OLDA) at Ohio State University’s Ohio Education Research Center to understand how involvement in the foster care and juvenile justice systems affect high school graduation and early adult outcomes.
In partnership with the Policy and Services Research and Data Center (PSRDC) at the University of South Florida, the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County (JWB) is researching the individual, home, family, school, and community-level factors that most impact school absenteeism in Pinellas County, Florida. Absenteeism in Pinellas impacts an estimated 14,000 students in grades K through 12.
University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh)
June 2013 - December 2015
The Pittsburgh Neighborhood and Community Information System (PNCIS) within the University Center for Social and Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh is working with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) to study how neighborhood characteristics and human services involvement affects absenteeism. Chronic school absenteeism is not only a strong predictor of lower educational achievement, but has also been linked to health, housing, and neighborhood condition issues such as asthma, poor property conditions, financial instability, and high crime rates.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
September 2, 2014
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As part of the Club’s Friday Forum series, Sheila Martin, director of the Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies (GPP’s parent organization) will join a panel of three Portland-area school district superintendents – Carole Smith (Portland), Don Grotting (David Douglas) and Karen Gray (Parkrose) – to present and answer questions on racial justice in Portland-area schools.
The Central Falls School District is the grantee with the Urban Institute and ProvPlan playing major roles in terms of project evaluation and data analysis. The NIJ project will be a large-scale intervention ‑ in two school districts (CF and Westerly) and two charter schools (Blackstone Valley Prep and the Greene School) ‑ on how to make schools safer, primarily through the use of “restorative justice” case conferences, a process in which students, teachers, and families work together to resolve conflicts and repair any harm caused by misbehavior. Central Falls has been a trailblazer in R
In celebration of Attendance Awareness Month, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, The Providence Plan, and the Rhode Island Data
Sharing Project held a special event for educators, policymakers, and community leaders: The Importance of Reducing Chronic Absence in the Early Grades. The event was held on Monday, September 29, 2014, from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. at Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, One Union Station, in Providence.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
September 30, 2014
With recent Census data indicating that 54 percent of children in the City of Cleveland live in poverty, the Cleveland Plain Dealer asked Dr Claudia Coulton about the relationship between poverty and health for “
CI:Now does supplemental mapping and analysis of San Antonio’s growing bank of neighborhood-level kinder-readiness data from the Early Development Instrument assessment. Spearheaded by the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, EDI is being implemented by a growing number of San Antonio school districts.
In May 2014, D3 launched the 2014 One D Scorecard, an online tool that reports on the status of our region through key data indicators in five Priority Areas: Economic Prosperity, Educational Preparedness, Quality of Life, Social Equity, and Regional Transit. The One D Index also rolls up the over 30 outcome-based indicators composing the five Priority areas into a single comprehensive score to better understand how metro Detroit stacks up across priority areas and other regions overall.
Just as longer commutes can have detrimental effects on adults, it reasonably follows that longer school commutes may have such effects as an increase in stress, tardiness and obesity rates on our youth. Conversely, in areas where housing patterns concentrate poverty and race in a neighborhood, longer commutes outside those neighborhoods might improve student outcomes. Though it is not yet clear just how school commute distance effects student performance, what is clear is that Detroit students and families are exercising their choice.
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers, health and wellness planners, and the public about school health indicators. The primary data source for the reports is the Healthy Youth Survey (HYS), administered every 2 years to 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. Each profile includes:
In Spring 2014, Mayor of Dallas Mike Rawlings gathered the Dallas community and created a Task Force to advise him on substantive, short-term plans to take action against poverty within the city. Dallas, which has the third-highest poverty rate for a city with a population of more than 1 million in the country, faces unique poverty challenges, which continue to disproportionately affect people of color. From 2000 to 2012, Dallas’ poverty increased by 41%, while the population of the city itself overall grew only by 5%. Dr.
In partnership with Rhode Island's Department of Labor and Training, ProvPlan is integrating workforce and unemployment data into the RI DataHUB to examine workforce related policy issues. Our first "Data Story" is expected to be published in early April 2015.
Eight out of 10 smokers start smoking before they turn age 18. Although Washington state law requires each school district to have a written policy prohibiting the use of all tobacco products on public school property, the mandated policy requirements are vague. Public Health – Seattle & King County recently examined tobacco- and nicotine-related school district policies of all 19 school districts in King County, Washington where, in 2012, around 12,000 school-age children used some form of tobacco.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
June 2015
Lead affects Cleveland children even before kindergarten. In an unpublished report completed in June, Case Western Reserve University and Invest in Children examined the effect of lead poisoning on kids enrolled in the county's universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 3, 2015
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In the series "Toxic Neglect", the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been running stories on the problems of lead poisoning on young children. Dr. Robert Fischer, co-director of the Poverty Center, was interviewed for "Lead poisoning makes education harder for kids and teachers" on October 22, 2015.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
November 4, 2015
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In an editorial to the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 1, Poverty Center Co-Director Dr. Rob Fischer discussed the magnitude of the problems from lead exposure on young children.
Center on Poverty and Community Development (Cleveland)
March 8, 2016
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At what level does lead exposure become dangerous for children?
Dr. Robert Fischer, Co-Director of the Poverty Center, and Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, Research Assistant Professor at the Poverty Center, examine this question in The Conversation. In the article, " In kids, even low lead levels can cause lasting harm," Fischer and Anthony discuss how children exposed to levels of lead below the current federal threshold still show cognitive deficits and delays in academic progress.
In 2014, we began holding virtual idea showcases after partners expressed the desire for more NNIP conversations between in-person meetings. Thanks to Idea Showcases, partners have shared their work and found new opportunities for collaboration with fellow NNIPers.
NNIP HQ started with a quick update on network activities including details about upcoming conferences and overall NNIP goals. Then, each presenter had 5 minutes to talk about potential, current, or completed work.
In 2014, we began holding virtual idea showcases after partners expressed the desire for more NNIP conversations between in-person meetings. Thanks to Idea Showcases, partners have shared their work and found new opportunities for collaboration with fellow NNIPers.
NNIP HQ started with a quick update on network activities including details about upcoming conferences and overall NNIP goals. Then, each presenter had 5 minutes to talk about potential, current, or completed work.
CI:Now’s new Viz-a-lyzer is an interactive tool for people to visually explore and analyze (visual… viz… viz-a-lyze… get it?) Bexar County data by zip code tract area and year, with comparisons to Bexar County, Texas, and the United States where available. We’ll be adding new indicators and features several times a year – subscribe to our newsletter to hear when a new release is out.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland)
January 2018
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Metroscape’s Winter 2018 edition launched with a panel discussion on nonagricultural uses of Oregon farmland. View the video here!
This issue also includes stories on urban forestry, school redistricting, and a diverse Portland neighborhood working to improve livability without gentrification.
Data Driven Detroit has been examining the impact of COVID-19 on education and employment in a blog series. Most recently, they have been analyzing how schools and childcare facilities are responding to pandemic-related regulations and precautions.
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Household Experiences: COVID-19's Continued Impact on Parents and Children
Memphis’ local StriveTogether organization, Seeding Success is a cradle to career backbone organization that seeks to ensure every child has the support and resources they need to succeed. COVID-19 and remote learning complicated that matter significantly. In collaboration with Innovate Memphis’ data team, they provide geospatial elements to the Shelby County Schools (SCS). Innovate Memphis connected student level data on internet technology (hotspots and devices received), school attended, neighborhood lived in, and much other neighborhood lev
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators serve an important role in empowering youth and giving them the proper tools to effect change in their communities.
NNIP co-hosted a moderated panel with team members from the StriveTogether's Racial and Ethnic Equity Action Team to discuss their guide and implementation process on systems indicators.The webinar began with Sonia Torres Rodríguez, research analyst at the Urban Institute, describing the creation, process, and implementation for the network-wide NNIP Racial Equity Goals. Ritika Sharma Kurup, Senior Director of Learning and Activation, provided a summary of StriveTogether's peer learning network and their Racial and Ethnic Equity Action Team. Dr.
The DataHaven Town Equity Reports provide access to relevant town-level information that is not available from any other source. They use new methods to disaggregate data from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey microdata files, DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey record-level files from 2015 through 2021, and federal and state agency databases.
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2023 Equity Reports for all 169 Connecticut Towns, Join our statewide Advisory Council
Community Information Now (CINow) supports the vision of the United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County (UWSA) for a San Antonio where educational disparities by race and income disappear, families have the support they need to provide for their children, and employers eliminate gender- and race-based wage disparities.
Data Driven Detroit (D3) (Detroit) Metropolitan Area Planning Council (Boston) University Center for Social and Urban Research (Pittsburgh) Neighborhood Data for Social Change (Los Angeles)
Poverty Center Co-Director Claudia Coulton was 
