Grade-level proficiency
No Longer Homeless, but Still Struggling in School
News Article
Dec 11, 2017
New Findings Show That Aligned, Math-Focused Interventions in Pre-K and Kindergarten Reduce the Achievement Gap
New Findings Show That Aligned, Math-Focused Interventions in Pre-K and Kindergarten Reduce the Achievement Gap
Report
Mar 6, 2018
MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm, released encouraging results from a demonstration, funded by Robin Hood, of two aligned interventions in New York City.
What we get wrong about the poverty gap in education
What we get wrong about the poverty gap in education
News Article
Jul 2, 2018
Poor children don't struggle in school because of their parents. They struggle because of poverty.
2018 CLPHA Housing Is Summit - Video Recordings
2018 CLPHA Housing Is Summit - Video Recordings
The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted The Housing Is Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 3-4, 2018 with 200 partners across the housing, education, and healthcare sectors. The Summit highlighted the ways that we can transform systems to better serve low-income people with two days of plenary speakers/panels, breakout sessions, and caucus discussions geared toward intersectional thinking and ways to take action.
Video
May 23, 2018
The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) hosted The Housing Is Summit in Washington, D.C., on May 3-4, 2018 with 300 partners across the housing, education, and healthcare sectors.
New Community | Oct 25, 2016
Literacy & Grade-Level Proficiency
This community is a space for Housing Is members interested in literacy and grade-level proficiency. Persistent educational disparities among low-income children hinder their abilities to achieve economic success in adulthood. The Housing Is initiative stands on the notion that affordable housing is influenced by a variety of systems, and that it is only through cross- sector collaboration that we will build the partnerships that will help improve lives.