Education

The Corporation for National and Community Service's 2011-2015 Strategic Plan includes a focus on programs that provide, support and/or facilitate access to services and resources that contribute to improved educational outcomes for economically disadvantaged people, especially children. Following are some of our most relevant resources for this focus area.

Overview of the Education Focus Area

Overview of the Education Focus Area

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2012 Education Performance Measures

The following performance measures are part of the agency-wide Priority Measure, Percent of children that demonstrated gains in school readiness and part of Goal 1: Increase the impact of national service on community needs in communities served by CNCS-supported programs. See all goals and agency-wide Priority Measures.

ED21: Number of children that completed participation in CNCS-supported early childhood education programs.

ED23: Number of children demonstrating gains in school readiness in terms of social and/or emotional development.

ED24: Number of children demonstrating gains in school readiness in terms of literacy skills.

ED25: Number of children demonstrating gains in school readiness in terms of numeracy (math) skills.

The following performance measures are part of the agency-wide Priority Measure Percent of students served by or serving in CNCS-supported programs that demonstrated improved academic performance (including the percent meeting state proficiency levels in literacy and/or math, or whose scores on state standardized tests improved) and part of Goal 1: Increase the impact of national service on community needs in communities served by CNCS-supported programs. See all goals and agency-wide Priority Measures.

ED2: Number of students that completed participation in CNCS-supported K-12 education programs.

ED4A: Number of disadvantaged youth/mentor matches that were sustained by the CNCS-supported program for at least the required time period.

ED5: Number of students with improved academic performance in literacy and/or math.

The following performance measures are part of the agency-wide Priority Measure Percent of students served by CNCS-supported programs, or engaged in CNCS-supported service-learning, that demonstrated improved academic engagement and part of Goal 1: Increase the impact of national service on community needs in communities served by CNCS-supported programs. See all goals and agency-wide Priority Measures.

ED27: Number of students in grades K-12 that participated in the mentoring or tutoring or other education program, including CNCS-supported service learning, who demonstrated improved academic engagement.

ED6: Number of youth that have improved their school attendance over the course of the CNCS-supported program's involvement with the student.

2012 AmeriCorps National Performance Measures Instructions – Education (PDF)

Other Performance Measurement Resources

General Education Topics and Related Websites