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Striving Together: 2010 Strive Report Card

The Strive Partnership brings together leaders at all levels from the education, business, nonprofit, community, civic and philanthropic sectors to support every child, every step of the way, cradle to career. The Striving Together report serves as a catalyst for discussion in our community about the current state of education. By reviewing trends over time, we can highlight where we are having the greatest impact and where we may need to focus more energy along the cradle-to-career journey. Based on a general review of this data, we can then dig deeper to better understand how we can build on successes and address challenges.

The third annual Striving Together report offers us the opportunity to really understand long-term trends in student achievement. Some key findings based on trends from the baseline year of 2005 include:

• In early childhood, the percentage of children who are prepared for school at kindergarten in Cincinnati and Newport continues to increase (9 and 10 points, respectively) and Success By 6 is working with the school districts to conduct a thorough review of what is driving these improved outcomes.

 • Cincinnati, Newport and Covington public schools have all seen dramatic improvements in 4th and 8th grade math (ranging from 12 to 20 point increases), while scores are less consistent in reading. In addition, college enrollment rates are on the rise in all three public school districts. Parochial schools are less consistent on academic measures and lack data in other areas.

 • More students are entering prepared at the University of Cincinnati main campus and Northern Kentucky University (17 and 8 points, respectively). Student readiness is roughly even or down at the UC branch campus and two-year campuses. Retention rates are on the rise at UC, NKU and Gateway. Both Cincinnati State and Gateway have seen increases in the number of associate’s degrees attained.

The increases can be attributed in many ways to the unique efforts of individual partners and certain collaboratives aligning their work to support student achievement. Going forward, Strive will encourage these efforts by partners and go even further to define very concretely how the partnership can work together to improve outcomes to ensure we all share accountability for results.