Investigating Equity in Art Course Taking Across Houston ISD High Schools
This brief investigates the extent to which national trends in inequitable arts learning opportunity, at least in terms of secondary school course offerings and enrollment, occur in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).
This brief examines the summer school program in Houston ISD and identifies schools and/or students that may need additional resources during summer school.
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.
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.
College and Workforce Outcomes of CTE Graduates in Houston
This series of briefs looked at CTE graduates' postsecondary education and workforce outcomes.
Examining Equitable Access to Health Resources, Support Staff and Technology Across HISD
This series of briefs examines whether HISD students across campuses have equitable access to health resources, support staff and technology.
Equity in the Classroom: Teacher Qualifications and Student Outcomes in HISD (Briefs 1-3)
This series of briefs focuses on teacher qualifications and student outcomes in the Houston Independent School District.
Understanding the Effect of HISD’s EMERGE Program on Student Outcomes
This brief examines the impact of the EMERGE program on the likelihood of participating students applying to and enrolling in selective colleges.
Staying in the Neighborhood: Examining Distance to Zoned Schools and Access to Transportation
This brief examines how students' living distance from their zoned school and access to district-provided school transportation impact enrollment decisions.
Social and Emotional Skills of Students in the Houston Independent School District (Briefs 2-5)
This series of briefs looks at how social and emotional skills are related to academic outcomes, absenteeism, and exclusionary discipline; the context of SSES skills; and the commonalities and differences between students’ self-ratings and teachers’ ratings of students’ SE skills.
This brief examines the middle and high school outcomes of long-term English speakers in the Houston region, with a specific focus on how the timing of reclassification was associated with academic achievement and school engagement.
Equity in CTE Program Availability and Access
This study examined the availability and access to Career and Technical Education programs in HISD.
HISD Student Needs Survey: Fall 2021
HISD's 2021 student needs survey measured student needs across five categories: health, mental health, basic needs, home learning environment, and enrichment activities.
This report proposes alternative definitions for student continuous enrollment. It also looks at the relationship between continuous enrollment and performance.
Pre-K Choice and School Readiness in HISD (Part 4)
This brief serves as the fourth, and final, study in a series examining pre-K access for students in HISD.
How public pre-K sets Houston’s students on a path to success
In 2023-24, over 50,000 children attended public prekindergarten in the Houston area, bringing overall enrollment near to pre-pandemic levels.
New research highlights potential responses to student homelessness caused by natural disasters
Hurricane Harvey rendered some 24,000 students in Houston Independent School District to be listed as homeless. The storm brought the district's overall total to more than 29,000 homeless students in the subsequent year, according to new research from the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Houston Education Research Consortium.
Guidance counselors could help close gender gap in Texas high school STEM participation
In the labor force and in postsecondary education, women lag behind their male counterparts when it comes to careers and interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Leading education scholar points to research-practice partnerships as a remedy to inequality
With a broad mission of supporting research to improve the lives of young people, William T. Grant Foundation President Adam Gamoran understands his organization has a distinctive niche.
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.
Houston Education Research Consortium shares results from the Survey on Social and Emotional Skills. A panel discusses the study’s local and international implications.
Kinder Institute Lunch-Out 2021
The Kinder Institute held its 2021 annual luncheon on Tuesday, May 11 as a virtual Lunch-Out. Guests from Houston and around the world gathered online to hear Stephen Klineberg and other institute leaders share the findings from the 40th Kinder Houston Area Survey, and discuss key aspects of the institute’s transformative efforts in response to the challenges of the pandemic.
Urban Reads: Rucker C. Johnson
Acclaimed economist Rucker C. Johnson discusses his new book, "Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works."
Urban Reads: Stephen L. Klineberg
Kinder Institute Founding Director Stephen Klineberg talks with Director Bill Fulton about his new book, which tracks the progress of Houston during almost four decades of remarkable economic, demographic and technological change.
Kinder Institute Lunch-Out 2020
Stephen Klineberg presents the findings from the 39th Kinder Houston Area Survey. The event also honors Rev. William A. Lawson with the 2020 Stephen L. Klineberg Award for more than 60 years of service to Houston and its people.
Kinder Institute Luncheon 2019
The 2019 Kinder Institute luncheon gathered thousands of Houston’s business, nonprofit and community leaders to hear Stephen Klineberg present the findings from the 38th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey. The event also honored Jeff Hines, president and CEO of Hines.
Kinder Institute Forum: Richard Rothstein
Richard Rothstein, an accomplished scholar of education and housing policy and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, discusses how laws and policies at the federal, state and local levels have promoted and enforced the residential racial segregation that exists today.
Kinder Institute Luncheon 2018
Stephen Klineberg presented the 37th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey, which tracked not only the transformations of our great city, but also how residents' views changed in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. This year's event honored Angela Blanchard, long-time leader of BakerRipley,
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