New York

New York Affiliate

Through the support and leadership of the University at Albany-SUNY School of Education; The Business Council of New York State; and the New York State Education Department, Just for the Kids-New York is supporting efforts to improve student learning and achievement across the state. Leadership from an Advisory Board, as well as leadership and funding from the New York business community, including AT&T, IBM, State Farm Insurance, and the State of New York is helping to make this a reality.

For information regarding Just for the Kids - New York contact:
Janet Angelis
Associate Director, Albany Institute for Research in Education
University at Albany-SUNY
518-442-5023

For additional information on becoming a Just for the Kids state affiliate, click here.
Click here for more on New York-specific studies of higher-performing elementary and middle schools.

Welcome to the Just for the Kids-New York school improvement website, providing data and descriptions of best practices to help raise academic achievement and close achievement gaps.

Since the founding of the Just for the Kids organization in 1995, its primary focus has been to help 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 New York in 2005 and currently include 2005 Just for the Kids School Reports for elementary, middle, and high schools. New York-based researchers have also studied Consistently Higher Performing Elementary Schools (2005) with the findings available through the Inspire section of this Web page.