Student's Roadmap to Success
Many factors have brought public education in the urban areas of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to a point where immediate actions are needed to help our children succeed. Particularly for children from families of ethnic minorities, non-native speakers of English, low-wage earners, and the unemployed, the combination of social, psychological, and economic pressures of urban life often severely limits access to learning and career opportunities.
Many students, despite natural intelligence, may be overwhelmed by obstacles such as inadequate prenatal care, frequent moving, constant shifts among foster homes, poor nutrition, domestic violence, and even something as simple as being unable to purchase a pair of eyeglasses can result in serious learning gaps and levels of frustration that may lead to high drop-out rates. Strive works with urban education and service providers to identify these obstacles and work together to address them.
The Student's Roadmap to Success, Strive's foundational document, was created by the University of Cincinnati's Center for Urban Education who reviewed hundreds of studies from early childhood to college education. This roadmap maps the path of a student and identifies the key transition points that often determine whether or not a child succeeds. Strive uses the Roadmap to organize work into five goal areas around the transition points (kindergarten readiness, elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, high school to college, freshman to sophomore year of college) to determine what interventions and support will be needed at various stages of a child's social and academic development.
Roadmap & Bibliography [pdf]
Executive Summary of Research [pdf]
Strive works towards achieving our goal that every child in the urban core of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky meets each and every benchmark on the way to reaching their full potential.