Evaluating High School Dropout Indicators and Assessing Their Strength
This brief evaluates indicators for students at risk of dropping out of school.
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EDUCATION
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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.
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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.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | 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.
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EDUCATION
Reading Achievement Among English Language Learners
This study follows a single cohort of students from kindergarten through fifth grade, tracking reading growth.
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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.
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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”).
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EDUCATION
Public Perceptions in Remarkable Times: Tracking Change Through 24 Years of Houston Surveys
Drawing on more than 20 years of survey data, this report seeks to tell the story of Houston and its communities.
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DEMOGRAPHICS | EDUCATION
Urban Edge
Across Houston, career and technical education is working. But could it work better?
“Career and technical education,” or CTE, tends to conjure up the image of students receiving hands-on training in high-wage technical occupations such as welding or HVAC repair. These programs do indeed provide the skills and experience to succeed in such fields, but today’s CTE offerings go far beyond the vocational training of previous decades.
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EDUCATION
National report highlights the roles of education and research in undoing the cycle of poverty
Over 1 in 3 children born around 1980 in the U.S. who grew up in households with incomes near or below the poverty line remained in low-income households when they were in their 30s. This is intergenerational poverty, and it carries profound impacts on the ability of individuals, families and communities to prosper.
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EDUCATION | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
As districts confront staffing shortages, centering equity can make a huge difference
Teachers are the most important resource in a school campus, and ensuring students have access to highly qualified teachers is essential. Unfortunately for PK-12 students in Texas, too many teachers have been leaving the profession and too few highly trained and experienced teachers are taking their place. At the same time, some schools have greater access to highly qualified teachers than others, which poses an obstacle to closing achievement gaps.
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EDUCATION | SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITY
Education leader Ruth Simmons ponders what's next for diversity, equity and inclusion
With publicly-funded state universities eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion as part of the hiring process, and proposed legislation targeted at other DEI policies in higher education, private institutions have an opportunity—and an obligation—to respond, Ruth J. Simmons said at the Kinder Institute Forum on Wednesday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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EDUCATION
Researchers make the case for broader investments in high-quality pre-K in Texas
A high-quality prekindergarten education can significantly alter the trajectory of a child’s life, leaders from the Kinder Institute’s Houston Education Research Consortium told community members last week at a special presentation at the United Way of Greater Houston campus.
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