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Research
HISD’s Decentralization Reform (Part 1: Policy Analysis)
his research brief is Part I of a four-part series that studies the implementation and impact of the HISD decision to decentralize in the 1990s
BRIEF: February 28, 2018 EDUCATION
Eligiendo Escuelas: English Learners and Access to School Choice
Using data from Houston Independent School District (HISD), researchers examined English learner participation in a system of school choice. Specifically, researchers investigated the extent to which never, current, and former English learners enrolled in a non-zoned HISD school.
BRIEF: November 6, 2017 EDUCATION
This two-part study confirms the broad variations of pre-kindergarten offerings across the state's largest school district, Houston Independent School District.
BRIEF: October 30, 2017 EDUCATION
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2017 Results
36th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey
REPORT: May 1, 2017 DEMOGRAPHICS | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
This report analyzes the impact of pre-kindergarten on school readiness using longitudinal data.
BRIEF: April 12, 2017 EDUCATION
Social Capital, Race, and Magnet School Attendance
This report looks at the interaction between race, social capital and magnet school attendance.
BRIEF: February 1, 2017 EDUCATION
College Advising Program: CSA Feedback
A collection of interviews with college advisers offers reflections and improvements for a program meant to get more students into post-secondary school.
BRIEF: July 1, 2016 EDUCATION
This report looks at the effect of specialized teacher training in math for students' academic performance.
BRIEF: June 1, 2016 EDUCATION
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2016 Results
35th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey
REPORT: April 25, 2016 DEMOGRAPHICS | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
This report looks at the impact of 27 school closures in the Houston Independent School District between 2003 and 2010.
BRIEF: March 1, 2016 EDUCATION
The Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluations on Workforce Quality (Parts 1 and 2)
The two studies also looks at the impact of the initaitive on student achievement.
BRIEF: March 1, 2016 EDUCATION
Variation Across Schools in Disability Classifications Process, 2006-07 to 2011-12
This report examines the classification process for special education in the Houston Independent School District.
BRIEF: March 1, 2016 EDUCATION
This report looks at the effectiveness of interventions meant to combat negative stereotype threat in schools where students of color are the majority.
BRIEF: March 1, 2016 EDUCATION
An Evaluation of Matrices Used to Select Magnet School Students
This document evaluates the Houston Independent Schools District's scoring system for students applying to its magnet schools.
REPORT: March 1, 2016 EDUCATION
EVAAS Value-Added Scores for Teachers with High Need Students
This brief looks at variation in teachers' value-added scores in relation to both the teachers and students as well as the scores of teachers at both low- and high-performing schools over time.
BRIEF: March 1, 2016 EDUCATION
Urban Edge
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner emphasizes funding for infrastructure, public education
Several hours after rescinding a nearly 40-hour boil water notice, Mayor Sylvester Turner had a timely example for why he thinks there is a clear need for infrastructure investment in Houston and throughout Texas.
RECAP: November 30, 2022 EDUCATION | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | GOVERNANCE
Continuity and supporting a student’s home language are helping more kids become English-proficient
Increasingly, Houston-area students learning English in public school are taking longer to become proficient, which is holding them back from mastering other subjects and moving forward in their educational journey. In a new report, we identified a few factors that might be contributing to this trend—as well as factors that could lead to better outcomes.
RESEARCH: April 27, 2022 EDUCATION
Schools are enrolling now for next year across Houston and the state of Texas, with officials in many districts still hoping to bring their headcounts back up to prepandemic levels, particularly prekindergarten, which has 25,000 fewer students than it did in 2019-20.
INSIGHTS: April 25, 2022 EDUCATION | URBAN DISPARITY
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.
PERSPECTIVES: March 4, 2022 EDUCATION
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.
: February 28, 2022 EDUCATION
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