These are the stories of those experiencing and fighting housing insecurity here in Cincinnati. We believe telling stories changes things. We believe listening changes things. We promised the community that we would tell their stories. It’s up to you to listen.
We believe in the power of storytelling and the importance of investing in the future by sharing those stories – whether they are stories of successful community ventures or lessons learned from stories of things you wish happened just a […]
With large portions of public tax dollars being spent on our nation’s schools, one question often asked by researchers, lawmakers and parents is: “How much of the money spent on schools makes it into the classroom?”
The National Center for Education Statistics released updates for two highly-utilized data sets at the beginning of 2017. The Commons has incorporated updates to Free and Reduced Price Lunch and Majority Minority Schools and they are now available to map alone or alongside other data.
The SAIPE program produces the only source of single-year statistics of childhood poverty for the nation’s more than 13,000 public school districts.
Students who grow up in poverty are less likely to complete higher education, more likely to live in single parent households, experience poorer health outcomes, and rely more on public assistance. While achievement gaps among races have narrowed, achievement gaps between poor and non poor are widening.
For millions of poor children, the United States is not the land of opportunity. Childhood poverty can have lifelong consequences, affecting future health, education, earnings, and more.
For high school students across America, the process of deciding where to go for college can seem daunting. But there’s another consideration students in more rural parts of America ask: “What’s nearby?”
Community Commons is excited to announce a new partnership with America’s Promise Alliance, an interdisciplinary alliance that works to improve the well-being of youth across the US, and its research institute, Center for Promise, housed at Boston University through their […]
When school lets out for the summer, it’s a time for celebration and warmer weather. But for some kids, it can also become a season of hunger.