This report looks at the effect of specialized teacher training in math for students' academic performance.
BRIEF:
EDUCATION
Body
Research
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2016 Results
35th annual Kinder Houston Area Survey
REPORT:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
EDUCATION
Evaluating High School Dropout Indicators and Assessing Their Strength
This brief evaluates indicators for students at risk of dropping out of school.
BRIEF:
EDUCATION
An Evaluation of the Secondary Reading Initiative
This report investigates an initiative intended to improve achievement on standardized tests for students who have struggled with reading.
BRIEF:
EDUCATION
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2015 Results
The 2015 Kinder Houston Area Survey tracks Harris County perspectives on the local economy, traffic and ethnic diversity.
REPORT:
DEMOGRAPHICS | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | EDUCATION
Improving Math Scores for African American and Hispanic Females
This report examines the effectiveness of self-affirmation exercises in the face of negative stereotype threat.
BRIEF:
EDUCATION
Reading Achievement Among English Language Learners
This study follows a single cohort of students from kindergarten through fifth grade, tracking reading growth.
BRIEF:
EDUCATION
How Do High Status Parents Choose Schools? Evidence From A Choice District
In-depth interviews with Houston-area parents in affluent neighborhoods sheds light on how families select schools.
BRIEF:
EDUCATION
The Houston Education Survey: Public Perceptions in a Critical Time
This report presents some of the most important findings from the Houston Education Survey, the second of three focused surveys that are together called the “SHEA” studies (“Surveys of Health, Education, and the Arts”).
REPORT:
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:
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:
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:
EDUCATION | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC 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:
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.
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EDUCATION
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Physical Address
Rice University
Kraft Hall
6100 Main Street, Suite 305
Houston, TX 77005-1892