Education

Kinder Institute Forum: Adam Gamoran

Adam Gamoran, president of the William T. Grant Foundation, will be in conversation with Kinder Institute Director Ruth N. López Turley. His research focuses on educational inequality and school reform.

More options in career and technical education can bolster Houston’s workforce

School districts throughout the Houston area offer students a plethora of career and technical education (CTE) programs, but a lack of alignment between such initiatives and the living-wage job market can significantly impact career trajectories and future earnings.

Career and Technical Education: Preparing Students for College and Workforce Success

Join the Kinder Institute’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) for a conversation on career and technical education (CTE) and its role in preparing students for college, employment and workforce success.

Who are Houston’s newcomer students, and how can schools help them succeed?

When immigrant children and teens enter the United States, the transition can be overwhelming.

How research helps Spring ISD drive student success

Leaders in Spring ISD don’t have to look far to find district graduates who have benefited from their schools’ Career and Technical Education programs. Michael King, a 2018 grad, is an audio/video technician in the district’s technology department, an example of talent and dedication meeting opportunity.

Why thousands of Houston-area households could soon lose a crucial internet subsidy

A program aimed at helping underserved communities afford internet service is expected to end in the coming months, a potential setback for efforts to close the digital divide.

Houston needs skilled workers. They might be at your local high school.

Houston is facing a growing demand for highly educated and skilled workers.

STEM Endorsement and the Pathway to College (Briefs 1-4)

This series of briefs looks at a variety of factors for students in choosing and completing the STEM endorsement in Houston ISD, including access, race, gender and academic achievement. The briefs also examine whether endorsement completion predicts college enrollment.

Closing local achievement gaps begins with closing spending gaps in Houston, Harris County

Academic achievement gaps cost the U.S. economy trillions of dollars each year, according to estimates by McKinsey and Co. Yet we have not made significant progress toward closing these gaps since we began measuring them in 1969 through the National Assessment of Educational Progress, despite significant developments in teaching and learning.

Newcomer Schools in Houston ISD: Examining Student Enrollment and Outcomes (Briefs 1-6)

This series focuses on newcomer programs in Houston ISD serving English learner (EL) students who have recently immigrated to the United States.

Houston has the jobs, but employers must be willing to take a chance

There should be plenty of jobs available in the Greater Houston region this year, but is the area producing enough work-ready people to fill them?

10 in 2023: Top stories from the Urban Edge

Housing costs, the economy, increasing demands on income and concerns about the environment weighed on the minds of Urban Edge readers in 2023.

Houston ISD centralizing wraparound support services for students and their families at new Sunrise Centers

The Houston Independent School District has bolstered its wraparound services with the opening of seven new Sunrise Centers since September. These services assist with a variety of non-instructional needs, including after-school care, clothing, enrichment activities, food, health care, school supplies and other resources.

Kinder Institute Forum: Robert L. Santos

Robert L. Santos, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, will discuss leveraging data to advance equity and diversity, lessons learned from the 2020 census, and plans to reach historically undercounted communities in 2030. 

When students change schools, how often is the cost of housing to blame?

Tens of thousands of students in the Houston area change schools during the school year or over the summer, which poses a variety of problems for academic achievement, according to the Kinder Institute’s Houston Education Research Consortium. In some cases, students are not moving schools for academic reasons, but because of housing needs — their families are facing eviction or in search of more affordable rent.