Understanding and Addressing Student and Family Need in HISD
During this event, findings from a recent survey of HISD student and family needs will be shared. Breakout sessions will be organized around a series of key areas of need in the district, such as health, housing, basic needs, and extracurricular supports.
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.
Postsecondary readiness broadly refers to how well students are prepared for education, employment or other pathways after high school.
HISD Student Needs Survey: Fall 2021
HISD's 2021 student needs survey measured student needs across five categories: health, mental health, basic needs, home learning environment, and enrichment activities.
This report proposes alternative definitions for student continuous enrollment. It also looks at the relationship between continuous enrollment and performance.
Learn about current and ongoing research efforts by Houston Education Research Consortium and Houston Independent School District researchers.
Pre-K Choice and School Readiness in HISD (Part 4)
This brief serves as the fourth, and final, study in a series examining pre-K access for students in HISD.
Kinder Houston Area Survey: 2022 Results
The 41st Kinder Houston Area Survey shares Houstonians’ views on the economy, crime, the pandemic and other issues related to the city’s demographic transformations.
This research brief examines student, campus, and neighborhood characteristics that can be considered risk or protective factors for the likelihood of an English learner (EL) becoming an LTEL (long-term English learner).
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.
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.
Student Mobility in Texas and the Houston Area
This report is the culmination of a multi-year study on student mobility undertaken by the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Houston Education Research Consortium in collaboration with 10 public school districts in the Houston area.
A Tale of Two Departments: Public Health in Harris County and the City of Houston
This report examines the possible service overlaps between the Harris County Department of Public Health and the City of Houston Department of Health and Human Services. The report also identifies options to reduce overlaps and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the public health delivery system.
The Relationship Between School-Year Mobility and School Performance in the Houston Area
A study of 10 public school districts in the Houston area found that the higher the school-year mobility rate at a school, the lower its accountability performance.
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