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Metis Associates, a national research and consulting firm headquartered in New York City, brings over 35 years of experience in evaluation, information technology, and grant development to its work with a wide range of organizations committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of children, families, and communities.
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Measuring Arts Achievement: New Goals, New Tools
Dr. Susanne Harnett has overseen many studies of arts-education programs—both federally and privately funded—at Metis Associates. Here, she answers questions about how arts performance can be measured, and whether arts learning arts has a broader impact on academic achievement...
message from the president
There is an emerging body of evidence that arts education is valuable both in building arts skills and in promoting academic, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. But that is not the popular perception. The more common belief is that art is an “extra” in schools that have precious little time or funding to devote to it. Spurred by the federal Race to the Top program...
metis news
Metis is delighted to begin a relationship with the PEP Foundation, which provides college-preparatory academic and social programs for public school students in Summit, New Jersey…
Metis Associates is pleased to announce its launch this May of a six-month audit of the Baltimore County Public Schools Magnet Programs…
Metis has begun an evaluation of the New York City Department of Education (DOE) Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative. In 2010, the DOE received a $256 million grant…
Boys & Girls Clubs of America, based in Atlanta, has selected Metis to conduct a two-year evaluation of its new summer program…
Metis’s evaluation of the Chicago Public Schools Striving Readers Program (2006–11) was included in a new volume published in January 2013 by Abt Associates…
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