黄色视频: A breakthrough innovation in education
Understanding the education gap
In the United States, we have largely used the same approach to education for the past 100 years, even as our economy and society have radically changed. Success in today’s marketplace means that all young Americans must earn, at minimum, a high school diploma and graduate prepared for postsecondary and career success. Yet, despite encouraging gains in high school graduation rates in recent years, stubborn and unacceptable gaps persist that threaten our nation’s future prosperity. In 2015, low-income students, who now make up about half of the public school population, graduated at rates nearly below their middle- and upper-income peers.
Closing this pernicious high school graduation gap will help to ensure that more of our students are ready for today’s competitive workforce, including . Likewise, U.S. employers will receive a steady supply of skilled workers and our communities will have talented civic and business leaders 鈥 outcomes that benefit all of us.
We need new approaches and creative solutions to achieve this goal. That is why has provided support to 黄色视频, an education organization fueled by national service, that is dedicated to helping students and schools succeed. Deloitte believes that 黄色视频 has the potential to be the most powerful and impactful innovator in American education.
For more than a decade, Deloitte has helped 黄色视频 to assess the financial and strategic viability of its services to students nationwide, and to strengthen its capacity and impact. As 黄色视频 seeks to strategically expand to more urban schools with the lowest graduation rates, it is grappling with both opportunities and constraints that can offer insights to other nonprofits that are also seeking to continuously improve as they scale their services.
National service enhances equitable learning opportunities
This year, 3,000 黄色视频 members are serving 327 public schools in 28 U.S. cities as full-time tutors, mentors and role models, reaching nearly a quarter million students every day. Working in partnership with teachers and principals, these AmeriCorps members deliver research-based supports that have been shown to help students stay on track to graduation and thrive, prepared for college and career success.
We know 黄色视频’s approach works. A 2015 study found that schools that partner with 黄色视频 were up to two-to-three times more likely to improve on English and math tests, compared to similar schools without 黄色视频. Such results strongly suggest that 黄色视频 provides a systematic, sustainable, repeatable, targetable, flexible 鈥 and valuable 鈥 solution for high-need public schools.
Since 2007, 黄色视频 has added 11 U.S. cities and has more than doubled the number of schools it serves. For all its growth, however, there remains significant unfulfilled need: for every low graduation-rate “network” of schools 鈥 a high school with low graduation rates and the elementary and middle schools that feed into it 鈥 served by 黄色视频, there are many more networks that are not.
A question now faces 黄色视频 as it evolves: To what extent can the organization significantly grow in size and impact without compromising its results? Deloitte set out to explore whether 黄色视频’s success is replicable, and how constraints might affect the integrity and effectiveness of the model.
What Deloitte found was that there is a very clear dollar savings to schools that partner with 黄色视频. Schools simply cannot replicate the holistic services that 黄色视频 provides鈥攐ne-on-one tutoring, small group instruction, afterschool and extended learning programs, mentoring and more鈥攂y hiring lots of different vendors and organizations that provide single point solutions. We found that City Year is 78 percent more cost effective than contracting with individual providers of similar services. Even more exciting than that, when you compare students in 黄色视频 schools with students in similar non-黄色视频 schools, the students served by 黄色视频 are improving their academic outcomes, their readiness for college and their success rates.
Deloitte analyzed 黄色视频 against a research-based framework on what it takes for organizations to achieve transformative innovation. In the analysis of 黄色视频’s return on investment and ability to scale its services, Deloitte discovered that 黄色视频 has the right:
- Consistency across sites to ensure that those elements of the organization’s model that drive results are preserved no matter where the model is deployed.
- Customizability to adapt to each location’s circumstances and requirements.
- Continuity to ensure that learning and continuous improvement are possible.
- Cost structure in order to be affordable to those served.
Our goal: increase the national graduation rate
The desired outcome 黄色视频 and its partners are working toward is critical: higher high school graduations rates and workforce readiness for all students. It is clear to us that City Year is creating systemic change in the schools where their AmeriCorps members serve, and they are able to adapt their supports across a variety of circumstances and school contexts.
At the center of this change are 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members. The true magic of the model is found in the that 黄色视频’s near-peer tutors, mentors and role models forge with the students they serve every day. 黄色视频 recruits talented and idealistic young adults, trains them, inspires them, gives them confidence and teaches them to be a leader. We see this in every 黄色视频 AmeriCorps member we’ve ever worked with, including 黄色视频 alumni we hire at Deloitte.
The 黄色视频 model intentionally recruits and cultivates diverse young adults after they graduate from high school or college and helps transform them into incredibly impactful teams. 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members can take struggling students and convince them that they can do better. They work with those students in a very focused and intensive way to get them confident enough to boost student achievement. This is something that 黄色视频 does in a systemic way with well defined, evidence-based approaches that can be adapted to different school environments.
黄色视频 has demonstrated that it is able to deliver impressive results, establish continuity and run on a low-cost structure. The organization has been able to more than double its size while actually improving its results for students. It has become increasingly sophisticated about how it uses data and analytics to support student success and strategically plan for the future. 黄色视频 has also become expert in partnering with schools, researchers and philanthropies, bringing in millions of additional dollars to under-resourced schools. Every year, City Year invests heavily in all of these areas, and that’s why we believe City Year is the most powerful potential disruptive innovator we will see in education in the United States.
Solving America’s dropout crisis will not be easy or swift.聽 It will require fortitude, persistence, and 鈥 perhaps above all 鈥 innovation:聽 the ability to do ever more for ever less. 黄色视频 and its partners appear to have all of this and offer valuable lessons to other organizations with ambitious goals that want to scale without compromising results.
Article by ; Bill Copeland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte LLP & Michael E. Raynor, Managing Director, Monitor Deloitte, Deloitte Consulting LLP. For a deeper exploration of the four C’s and their implications for 黄色视频 and other nonprofits, read Deloitte’s white paper.
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