Research

This brief describes the distribution of college prep course offerings across Texas and determines which school characteristics are associated with higher and lower numbers of course offerings. It also examines how offerings are related to student-level college prep course-taking and, in turn, how course-taking behaviors are related to long-term educational outcomes.

This study compared the summer learning rates of students who attended Houston Independent School District (HISD) 2016 summer school to similar students who did not attend, for both promoted and retained students.

These are the lessons learned from the arts and culture ecosystems of three Sun Belt cities for a new model of inclusive planning.

Through 38 years of Houston surveys, KHAS has tracked responses to the economic and demographic transformations of the Bayou City.

This Houston Education Research Consortium report assesses college advising needs in nine Houston-area school districts.

During the summer and fall of 2018, an audit was done on the Gulfton area's streets and sidewalks and these are the results.

In this study, we seek to understand the nature of collaborations between organizations working in the food insecurity and food desert social spaces in Houston.

This brief addresses Houston ISD's decentralization funding and is the final part of a larger study about HISD's decentralization.

This brief provides evidence on the relationship between HISD's decentralization reforms and student achievement.

The report encourages policymakers to be mindful and considerate of these multifaceted educational benefits when assessing the opportunity costs that come with decisions pertaining to the provision of the arts in schools.

The inventory of affordable housing has been diminishing and this report documents where in Houston it's diminishing the fastest.

This report shows which parts of Houston METRO's service area may have untapped ridership.

This report takes a regional view to find major issues with the way our growth is governed.

This study examines the likelihood that a student will receive a school disciplinary action, such as in-school or out-of-school suspension.

While Houston continues to claim to be an affordable city, findings show that a lack of public transportation is making living in the city more difficult to access jobs in some areas.

This report provides a more in-depth understanding of critical transportation safety issues, highlights key issues and can be used to prioritize street safety improvements.

This report will lay out the landscape of law enforcement in Harris County and document existing overlapping services.

This report suggests that public agencies work closely with social media companies and the operators of crowdsourced sites to install plans to incorporate these systems into the disaster recovery process.

This report focuses on how information about daily trips can be used to improve transportation safety for bicyclists.