Education

Kinder Institute Luncheon 2022

After two years of virtual events, the 2022 Kinder Institute Luncheon will once again be one of Houston’s most insightful gatherings of business and community leaders!

Student homelessness is pervasive and hard to track. COVID-19 made things worse.

Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, Faith—a single mother with two children, one in third grade and one in fifth grade—worked at a sports stadium in Houston. Her focus at the time was “paying for a room and trying to pay for child care,” she stated during an interview. But after the pandemic began, the stadium canceled games and Faith found herself out of work. Not long afterward, she and her children were evicted.

MacKenzie Scott’s unprecedented gift comes as students, teachers try to recover from pandemic’s toll

Earlier this month, Communities In Schools of Houston, a non-profit organization that has served the Houston community for over four decades, received an unprecedented financial gift.

Student Mobility in Texas and the Houston Area

This report is the culmination of a multi-year study on student mobility undertaken by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Houston Education Research Consortium in collaboration with 10 public school districts in the Houston area.

Beyond Academic Learning: A New Chapter on Social and Emotional Skills and Implications for Students, Educators and Policymakers

Houston Education Research Consortium shares results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills. A panel discusses the study’s local and international implications.

The Relationship Between School-Year Mobility and School Performance in the Houston Area

A study of 10 public school districts in the Houston area found that the higher the school-year mobility rate at a school, the lower its accountability performance.

Consistency in Campus Student Mobility Predicting Campus Mobility at Houston Area Public Schools

This brief relays findings on how campuses’ student body characteristics, neighborhood features, campus attributes, and nearby alternative schooling options influence campus mobility rates.

Student Mobility During School Year Detrimental for Houston Area Students’ Achievement and Attainment

Tens of thousands of students in the Houston area switched schools during the school year annually. This study examined what this mobility meant for students’ performance on state accountability tests, high school grade retention, high school dropout, and high school graduation.

School Suspension and Juvenile Justice Contact in the Houston Independent School District

This two-part study seeks to understand the relationship between school suspensions and juvenile justice contact in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).

Student Mobility Leaving Districts in the Houston Area: Where do students go? And do they return?

This study highlights the unique patterns of student mobility and the returner phenomenon in 10 Houston-area school districts.

Flows of Student Mobility in the Houston Region

In this series of research briefs, HERC examines the between district mobility of students from the perspective of 10 public school districts in the Houston area.

Student Mobility Networks in the Greater Houston Area

This brief explores the informal networks of elementary school student mobility in the Greater Houston area across 27 independent school districts (ISDs).

Social and Emotional Skills of Students in the Houston Independent School District (Brief 1)

Two briefs analyze the social and emotional skills of a representative group of 10 and 15-year-old students in HISD.

Texas’ approach to virtual learning is another step backward for equity

Texas Senate Bill 15 is awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature. Originally intended to set in place policy to fully fund virtual schooling for districts around the state, the passage of this bill could have been a proud moment for Texans, a response to the immediate needs of school districts during the pandemic.

Predictors of School Year Student Mobility in the Houston Region

This study identified student characteristics associated with school year mobility for more than 260,000 students in grades 4 through 8 who began the 2016-17 school year at a school in one of ten Houston area school districts.