who we are
Metis Associates, a national research and consulting firm headquartered in New York City, brings over 40 years of experience in evaluation, information management, and grant development to its work with a wide range of organizations committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of children, families, and communities.
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Pacific High School Graduation Ceremony, Port Orford, Oregon (sourced from Facebook)
Oregon GEAR UP is a seven-year federally-funded initiative that offers academic, college and career programming to prepare low-income, rural students to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Interested in learning more about students’ experiences after they graduate from high school, Oregon GEAR UP retained Metis Associates to conduct a Life after High School survey with one of their graduating cohorts.
on our minds
Implementing an Afterschool Program? Here are some hot tips...
Over the past two decades, we have had the privilege of evaluating many 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) programs in states across the country, including in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, Florida, and Ohio. As part of our work, we collect a variety of data on program outcomes, such as student attendance, academic achievement, social-emotional learning, and program satisfaction from 21st CCLC staff members, regular school day teachers, parents, and students.
upcoming events
• December 15 - Community Meeting: Success for the South Ward, Newark Trust for Education, Newark, NJ. Facilitators: Erica Bjerke, Farimata Caruso.
• February 6-8 - 2019 National Policy Training Conference. The Marriott Marquis, Washington, DC. Participant: Marilyn Zlotnik
• February 26 - Building and Measuring Protective and Promotive Factors in Youth: The Youth Thrive™ Framework, 2019 Transition Age Youth Conference, Sacramento, CA. Presenters: Lisa Primus (Center for the Study of Social Policy), Erica Bjerke (Metis Associates)
magnet schools – then and now
Forty years ago, the first magnet schools were created as a tool to further racial desegregation in large urban school districts. In contrast to court-ordered methods and strategies such as forced bussing, the vision was that magnets would provide a voluntary means to create more diverse schools by offering parents and their children a unique environment or distinctive educational experience (such as a thematic curriculum or special pedagogical model).
Rosebank Integrated Technology and Biological Sciences STEAM Magnet School's booth for the 2018 School Choice Festival in the Metro Nashville Public Schools.
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