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In the News: Be the Change
The ambitious Be the Change campaign, a collaborative tutor recruitment effort to support students in Cincinnati Public Schools, held an official kickoff on Thursday, January 12th to recruite 2,000 tutors. Multiple news stations were at the event: WKNU: Cincinnati Public Schools Launches Campaign for Two Thousand Volunteers Hear Strive Partnership Executive Director Greg Landsman discuss how the campaign [...] more
‘Be the Change’ Continues to Recruit Volunteer Tutors for Cincinnati Public Schools
Multi-partner effort builds on last year’s success in recruiting hundreds of volunteer reading and math tutors for students in high-need elementary schools throughout the CPS district CINCINNATI — (Jan. 4, 2012) — The Strive Partnership, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS), and others are teaming up for the second straight year to [...] more
News Flash: Progress Happens
The Strive Partnership was mentioned in the New York Times as making progress in 2011 towards our mission of helping others. To read about Strive, as well as many other great social programs and initiatives, follow this link: News Flash: Progress Happens more
‘Striving’ to help schools, students succeed
In his guest column for the Cincinnati Enquirer, Richard Lee Colvin highlights four ways that Cincinnati’s Strive Partnership stands out from the crowd. These consist of partners gathering around a common goal, establishing performance targets, understanding the importance of data, and having a strong, sustained civic leadership to support the work. Colvin, Executive Director of Education [...] more
Striving for Student Success: A Model of Shared Accountability
“Instead of putting the entire achievement burden on schools, what would it look like to hold a whole community responsible for long-range student outcomes? How can accountability for youth development, health, and safety — as well as for academic achievement — be shared by non-profits, public non-school agencies, foundations, cities, corporations, and others?” In a new report out by Education [...] more
Local student achievement on the rise
In her November 24th article, Jessica Brown explores highlights from the Strive Partnership’s fourth annual Partnership Report, as well as areas that need much more work. She also mentions the importance of a recent article on Cincinnati Public Schools which, through the use of a data system that Strive helped develop, found that CPS Community [...] more
Time for action on childhood hunger
In her guest column, Sue Wilke calls attention to the issue of poverty in the city of Cincinnati – specifically, how “poverty as a major issue does not appear on any major community-wide agenda.” Wilke also presents her readers with the impact that this issue has on childhood hunger: “The impact on children is heart-breaking. If [...] more
The Strive Partnership Releases Fourth Annual Report Card
The Strive Partnership Releases Fourth Annual Report Card Partnership’s report shows progress by partners to improve achievement in region’s urban core 81 percent of student achievement measures trending in positive direction CINCINNATI – (Nov. 16, 2011) — The Strive Partnership released its fourth annual report today, which offers an update on the encouraging progress being [...] more
Connecting the Dots: Is Your Community “Program Rich, System Poor”?
Ken Thompson, Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, writes about Strive’s accomplishment “connecting the dots.” Thompson examines the birth of the Strive Partnership in Cincinnati, and explores the role of the Strive framework in Northwestern communities. “No longer can we rely on hundreds of good programs, working in isolation, to add up to success for the young [...] more
CPS Ranks in Ohio’s Top 5% For Students’ Learning Growth
A recent analysis of data by the national nonprofit group Battelle for Kids and Ohio SOAR shows that Cincinnati Public Schools’ students demonstrated a high level of learning growth during the 2010-11 school year — among the top 5 percent of districts in the state. CPS – the first and only urban district in Ohio [...] more