Can a focus on data improve outcomes for Opportunity Youth? Since 2019, the Opportunity Youth Collaborative (OYC) has been partnering with the Boston Public Schools and Bunker Hill Community College, the largest youth- and young adult-serving institutions in the city, to incorporate a more comprehensive data-strategy into their work to address racial inequity in student experience and outcomes. You'll hear from representatives of both institutions, as well as youth and young adult leaders who will share lessons learned from this work and goals for the future.
The COVID pandemic provides us with an opportunity to reimagine education in Boston. Join us to explore data trends across our cradle to career outcomes in Boston and explore what data on student outcomes will be available in the near future to guide our recovery efforts. Hear from community leaders about new ways that we can work together to advance equity and a just education ecosystem in Boston.
The Boston Opportunity Agenda launched a series of conversations for organizations serving children from Birth to Eight years old in Boston. Exploring most recent available data regarding child outcomes in Boston, these conversations center around current efforts that address the needs of young children and potential collective impact efforts to support infants, toddlers, young children and families throughout the city.
We encourage anyone working with children and families to sign up for our mailing list to stay up to date on collaborative meetings and surveys. If you are interested in serving on a committee, please sign up here.
Interested in serving on a Birth to Eight committee? Sign up here to let us know, and to find out more about the progress being made by each committee, download the latest committee update.
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November 4, 2021, Commonwealth Magazine, On schools, Boston’s new mayor must meet the moment
August 5, 2021, Boston Globe, Child care is now a major political issue. Here’s how the Boston mayoral candidates want to reform it
July 23, 2021, Boston Globe, Child-care crisis deepened in Boston during pandemic, report says
November 28, 2020, CommonWealth Magazine, State leaders must invest in child care
February 7, 2017, The Boston Globe, By the numbers
July 29, 2015, Bay State Banner, Mayor cuts ribbon on Connection Center
July 29, 2015, Bay State Banner, Education chief envisions high schools of the future
July 27, 2015, The Boston Globe, New resource center helps city youths make career connections
July 13, 2015, The Boston Globe, Editorial, A needed redesign for Boston schools
May 13, 2015, Bay State Banner, School officials soliciting ideas for high schools of the future
May 12, 2015, Learning Lab, WBUR, Mixed Feelings As Boston Sets Out To Redesign High Schools
May 3, 2015, The Boston Globe, Boston invites public to reimagine high schools
January 20, 2015, The Boston Globe, Boston public school grads exceed charter-school peers: Graduates of Hub’s public schools exceed peers at charter schools
January 16, 2015, CommonWealth, Striving for urban school excellence: Boston leaders mark gains, big challenges remaining