
This brief examines the middle and high school outcomes of long-term English speakers in the Houston region, with a specific focus on how the timing of reclassification was associated with academic achievement and school engagement.

Equity in CTE Program Availability and Access
This study examined the availability and access to Career and Technical Education programs in HISD.
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Preserving Affordable Housing in Harris County
Kinder Institute researchers identify affordable housing preservation policies and programs in the Houston area, document the range and extent of affordable housing, and describe best practices that could help stem the loss of local affordable housing stock.

Tens of thousands of students in the Houston area switched schools during the school year annually. This study examined what this mobility meant for students’ performance on state accountability tests, high school grade retention, high school dropout, and high school graduation.

School Suspension and Juvenile Justice Contact in the Houston Independent School District
This two-part study seeks to understand the relationship between school suspensions and juvenile justice contact in the Houston Independent School District (HISD).

Student Mobility Leaving Districts in the Houston Area: Where do students go? And do they return?
This study highlights the unique patterns of student mobility and the returner phenomenon in 10 Houston-area school districts.

Flows of Student Mobility in the Houston Region
In this series of research briefs, HERC examines the between district mobility of students from the perspective of 10 public school districts in the Houston area.

Student Mobility Networks in the Greater Houston Area
This brief explores the informal networks of elementary school student mobility in the Greater Houston area across 27 independent school districts (ISDs).

Social and Emotional Skills of Students in the Houston Independent School District (Brief 1)
Two briefs analyze the social and emotional skills of a representative group of 10 and 15-year-old students in HISD.

Predictors of School Year Student Mobility in the Houston Region
This study identified student characteristics associated with school year mobility for more than 260,000 students in grades 4 through 8 who began the 2016-17 school year at a school in one of ten Houston area school districts.

Changing Schools: Differences in School Year Student Mobility by Subgroup (Part 4)
This study used seven years of data from the state of Texas (2010-11 through 2016-17) to illustrate how statewide patterns of school year student mobility differed by subgroup. Patterns of student mobility differed by race, socioeconomic status, and English learner status.

HERC collected 45 school district action plans addressing continuity of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic from school districts in 15 states that were publicly available between March and May 2020.

The 2021 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston
The 2021 State of Housing in Harris County and Houston report uses a range of indicators to track the challenges, opportunities and trends in the region’s housing system.

Eviction Prevalence and Spatial Variation Within the Houston Independent School District
This research brief examines the distribution of eviction filings across the Houston Independent School District (HISD) in 2017 and 2018.

To investigate this phenomenon of “returners,” Houston Education Research Consortium researchers followed two types of leavers in a cohort of Houston-area students to see if and when they return.

The Literacy by 3 Classroom Practices and Campus Literacy Growth study is the first to examine the relationship between Literacy by 3 practices and campus literacy growth in HISD.

Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2021 Results
For the past four decades, Rice University’s Kinder Houston Area Survey (KHAS) has been tracking the changing attitudes and beliefs of Harris County residents. The 2021 survey summarizes the most consequential changes and their implications for public policy initiatives going forward.

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