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National Center for Educational Achievement / Just for the Kids

Projects completed or underway include Just for the Kids School Reports and NCEA Best Practice Studies of higher performing elementary and middle schools in Colorado.

Welcome to the Just for the Kids - Colorado, a school information Web site that provides actionable data and practices proven best in raising academic achievement and closing achievement gaps at all grade levels.

Since its inception in 1995, Just for the Kids' primary focus has been helping find and fulfill every school's potential for reaching excellence in student achievement. JFTK services and tools have been created to support school systems that accept the challenge of preparing ALL students for college and skilled careers. The JFTK strategy toward achieving excellence is embodied in three basic steps:

Step 1 - Inform: Analyze your school's achievement potential using Just for the Kids' consistency, opportunity gap and growth reports based on your state's academic test results

Step 2 - Inspire: Learn and compare your practices to those of consistently higher performers using the interactive Framework of Best Practices

Step 3 - Improve: Apply what you've learned in Steps 1 and 2 toward intentional and targeted improvement planning and implementation

Just for the Kids tools and services first became available for Colorado in 2002 and currently include 2006 Just for the Kids School Reports for elementary, middle, and high schools. Colorado-based researchers have also studied Consistently Higher Performing Elementary Schools (2002, 2003, and 2004) with the findings available through the NCEA Best Practice Framework.

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National Center for Educational Achievement / Just for the Kids

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