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The Strive Partnership Releases Fourth Annual Report Card
The Strive Partnership has released its fourth annual report card, which offers an update on the encouraging progress being made to improve student achievement and growth, cradle to career, in the...
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Developing Shared Measures
I had the opportunity to spend some additional time with some visitors from Germany who came to Cincinnati to take part in the recent Strive Discovery Workshop. They have become very interested in the...
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Transforming Charitable Giving into Social Investing
Although published over three years ago, the ideas explored in the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal article “The End of Charity: How to Fix the Nonprofit Sector Through Effective Social...
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Collective Impact: Using Data to Address the Achievement Gap in Seattle
Seattle, one of seven Cradle-to-Career communities across the country, was recently recognized in The Atlantic: Cities for its collective impact work around the area’s educational achievement gap. The...
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An Encouraging Update from Portland Cradle to Career Initiative
All Hands Raised, a Portland cradle to career initiative, recently released their January update. The update highlights the progress being made by the partnership in areas of student success, the...
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The Difference between Collaboration and Collective Impact
We recently hit the benchmarks of having over 150 communities reach out to us and 80 communities having completed the Site Readiness Assessment to join the Strive Network. As we start our discussions...
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Head Start Report Recommendations Aligned with Cradle to Career Collective...
The Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation, established two years ago, recently released an outstanding final report containing recommendations for the future of the federal Head...
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One Lesson from Atlanta
There is so much we can learn from the recent indictments of so many administrators in the Atlanta public schools around scrubbing data. I would like to focus on just one: as long as we use data for...
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Are we doing the right things to address, or rather, prevent the issues of...
I just read a fascinating opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “No Rich Child Left Behind.” I wasn’t surprised by what I was reading. There is a significant gap in education success between...
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Expanding the Pie: Social Impact Bonds
Social Impact Bonds Overview An emerging approach in the United States to support evidence-based social programs is social impact bonds, which we consider part of the larger impact investing sector....
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