America’s Choice has a long and solid partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the nation’s biggest school system with 1,500-plus schools and 1.1 million students. New York City schools were among the first to adopt the America’s Choice School Design—and the design has been used in city schools since 1998.

We’ve worked with states, districts, and schools throughout the region to improve student achievement with the America’s Choice School Design and instructional solutions.

The North Region includes the New England states, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

North Region Highlights

• In one of our biggest projects, New York City selected Ramp-Up Literacy to improve adolescent literacy among middle and high school students across the district. For this intensive three-year project, which began in 2003, America’s Choice trained thousands of teachers to deliver the course, which resulted in improved test scores across the city.

• In a competitive bidding process, New York City selected America’s Choice to help schools develop effective assessment systems. We developed a series of workshops to help school staffs understand the role of assessment in standards-based education and create assessments that measure student progress and guide instruction.

• New York City schools also have used Mathematics Navigator in their summer school programs.

• The Massachusetts Department of Education selected America’s Choice in 2005 as a turnaround partner to serve two districts, Holyoke and Fall River public schools. In addition, we are collaborating with Boston Public Schools to implement our literacy programs in targeted schools.

• In Connecticut, Hartford and Stamford public schools are implementing our literacy and mathematics instructional systems, including Ramp-Up Literacy and Ramp-Up Mathematics, and our mathematics intervention program, Mathematics Navigator.

• The Pennsylvania Department of Education in 2007 selected America’s Choice to pilot Ramp-Up Literacy and Ramp-Up Mathematics for middle school students who are working two or more years below grade level. Eight schools in the Pittsburgh Public Schools are in their second year of implementing the America’s Choice School Design, while other urban and suburban schools in the state have adopted the design as well.

Meet the North Region staff