2008 Student Progress on the Roadmap to Success
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We release the first Striving Together: Student Progress on the Roadmap to Success report with the hope that through greater accountability we can generate a community "response" in the form of shared responsibility for evidence-based decision making. This is the very foundation of Strive.
The purpose of Striving Together is to serve as a catalyst for discussion about the current state of education in our community. We envision that our partners will help us organize community conversations and drive action in order to take ownership and hold ourselves accountable for improving education in our region.
This initial report represents a snapshot of the local education data that currently exists. It tracks community level outcome indicators that show student progress across the Strive Student’s Roadmap to Success from early learning through college and into a career. The data presented focuses on the urban core of Greater Cincinnati, including Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. This report seeks to establish a baseline for how we are doing. The latest available data is presented where possible. Future reports will set forth benchmarks that we will strive to achieve. These benchmarks will take into account the existing goals of our partners, as well as the suggestions generated through our community conversations.
Strive established a committee comprised of local data experts to help develop this report. We ask the reader to use caution when attempting to make comparisons across the data. In many cases, different assessments are being used across geography and grade level; therefore, comparing data across school districts is not always possible and is, more importantly, not the purpose of this report. While the report will enable us to analyze trends across the existing data, it will also help us to identify additional data that we need, in order to measure our success. In short, we hope that good data will drive out bad data.
There has, perhaps, never been another time in history in which there was so much focus on accountability in education. With Striving Together we are putting a spotlight on data and asking the community to embrace what it says and work together to improve student outcomes.
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