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.
Evaluating High School Dropout Indicators and Assessing Their Strength
This brief evaluates indicators for students at risk of dropping out of school.
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.
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2015 Results
The 2015 Kinder Houston Area Survey tracks Harris County perspectives on the local economy, traffic and ethnic diversity.
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.
Reading Achievement Among English Language Learners
This study follows a single cohort of students from kindergarten through fifth grade, tracking reading growth.
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.
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”).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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