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
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Research
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.
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EDUCATION
This two-part study confirms the broad variations of pre-kindergarten offerings across the state's largest school district, Houston Independent School District.
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EDUCATION
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2017 Results
36th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey
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DEMOGRAPHICS | EDUCATION
This report analyzes the impact of pre-kindergarten on school readiness using longitudinal data.
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EDUCATION
Social Capital, Race, and Magnet School Attendance
This report looks at the interaction between race, social capital and magnet school attendance.
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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.
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EDUCATION
This report looks at the effect of specialized teacher training in math for students' academic performance.
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EDUCATION
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2016 Results
35th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey
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DEMOGRAPHICS | EDUCATION
This report looks at the impact of 27 school closures in the Houston Independent School District between 2003 and 2010.
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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.
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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.
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EDUCATION
This report looks at the effectiveness of interventions meant to combat negative stereotype threat in schools where students of color are the majority.
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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.
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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.
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EDUCATION
Urban Edge
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.
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EDUCATION
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?
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EDUCATION
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.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | EDUCATION | HOUSING
The Houston Independent School District bolstered its wraparound services with the opening of seven Sunrise Centers, which assist with a variety of noninstructional needs, including after-school care, clothing, enrichment activities, food, health care, school supplies and other resources.
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EDUCATION
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.
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Physical Address
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