The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is a collaboration of community organizations whose mission is to build a culture of achievement in North Minneapolis to assure all youth graduate from high school college-ready. The evaluation includes community surveys, year-end reports, and a prospective return on investment study. In addition, Wilder Research evaluates specific components of NAZ strategies, as part of their continuous process improvement. Find more reports on NAZ’s site: http://northsideachievement.org/how-were-doing/results/
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is a collaboration of community organizations whose mission is to build a culture of achievement in North Minneapolis to assure all youth graduate from high school college-ready. The evaluation includes community surveys, year-end reports, and a prospective return on investment study. This report presents findings on family engagement in NAZ and its relationship to academic outcomes.
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is a collaboration of community organizations whose mission is to build a culture of achievement in North Minneapolis to assure all youth graduate from high school college-ready. The evaluation includes community surveys, year-end reports, and a prospective return on investment study. In addition, Wilder Research evaluates specific components of NAZ strategies, as part of their continuous process improvement. Find more reports on NAZ’s site: http://northsideachievement.org/how-were-doing/results/ This report describes the 2015-16 academic outcomes and summarize progress (academic and whole-family) over the 2012-2016 Promise Neighborhood grant.
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) operated as a federally funded Promise neighborhood for the first year during 2012. As such, it was a year of great increase in the scale of operations, both in the number of families served and its program offerings. The goal of the external evaluation is to examine the effectiveness at this larger scale. Key accomplishments during 2012 have been the development of a logic model, in partnership with NAZ staff and the internal evaluators; identification of data sources for required federal measures; and identification of annual targets for monitoring progress toward the four key academic outcomes.
This is an executive summary of a prospective return on investment (ROI) study which quantifies the costs and benefits of implementing NAZ solutions with a typical child living in the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ).
This prospective return on investment (ROI) study quantifies the costs and benefits of implementing NAZ solutions with Brandon, a typical child living in the Northside Achievement Zone. Brandon and his family will be enrolled in NAZ for five years (not necessarily consecutively) and will participate in some of NAZ’s most popular programs. This ROI study adds up these benefits of Brandon’s involvement in NAZ and compares them to the costs of NAZ implementation to estimate the net benefits and social return on investment of NAZ. This is the full report.
This report is an analysis of student outcomes from the latest school year (2013-14) for NAZ scholars as reported by Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) based on administrative records. It describes NAZ�s progress on its four key academic goal areas: kindergarten readiness, 3rd grade reading, 8th grade math, and high school graduation.
This 2013 survey is a follow-up to an earlier survey. It gathers in-depth data about the well-being of children in the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ), parents� perceptions of the community, and progress toward key outcomes.
This is a summary of a 2013 survey about the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ).
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) operated as a federally funded Promise neighborhood for the first year during 2012. As such, it was a year of great increase in the scale of operations, both in the number of families served and its program offerings. The goal of the external evaluation is to examine the effectiveness at this larger scale. Key accomplishments during 2012 have been the development of a logic model, in partnership with NAZ staff and the internal evaluators; identification of data sources for required federal measures; and identification of annual targets for monitoring progress toward the four key academic outcomes.
The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is a collaboration of community organizations whose mission is to build a culture of achievement in a geographic zone in North Minneapolis to assure all youth graduate from high school college-ready. This report summarizes findings from a community baseline survey developed to gather data about how kids in the Northside Achievement Zone are doing, assess thoughts from parents, and provide a baseline for future progress.
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